Plumpy'nut

Plumpy'Nut
Plumpy'Nut, a ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF)
Nutritional value per 92 g[1]
Energy2,100 kJ (500 kcal)
45 g
30.3 g
12.8 g
Other constituentsQuantity
Ingredientspeanut paste, vegetable oil,
powdered milk, powdered sugar,
vitamins, minerals
Percentages estimated using US recommendations for adults,[2] except for potassium, which is estimated based on expert recommendation from the National Academies.[3]
Source: Nutriset, France

Plumpy'Nut is a peanut-based paste in a plastic wrapper for treatment of severe acute malnutrition manufactured by Nutriset, a French company.[4][5] Feeding with the 92-gram (3+14 oz) packets of this paste reduces the need for hospitalization. It can be administered at home, allowing more people to be treated.[4]

Plumpy'Nut may be referred to in scientific literature as a Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) alongside other RUTFs such as BP100.[6]

Nutriset has been criticized by Médecins Sans Frontières for enforcing its Plumpy'nut patents.[7] However, as of 2018 Plumpy'nut patents have expired in the US, UK and the European Union.

  1. ^ "Plumpy'Nut®". Nutriset. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
  2. ^ United States Food and Drug Administration (2024). "Daily Value on the Nutrition and Supplement Facts Labels". FDA. Archived from the original on 27 March 2024. Retrieved 28 March 2024.
  3. ^ National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Health and Medicine Division; Food and Nutrition Board; Committee to Review the Dietary Reference Intakes for Sodium and Potassium (2019). Oria, Maria; Harrison, Meghan; Stallings, Virginia A. (eds.). Dietary Reference Intakes for Sodium and Potassium. The National Academies Collection: Reports funded by National Institutes of Health. Washington, DC: National Academies Press (US). ISBN 978-0-309-48834-1. PMID 30844154. Archived from the original on 9 May 2024. Retrieved 21 June 2024.
  4. ^ a b "Plumpy'Nut®: Ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF)". Nutriset. Archived from the original on 30 September 2011. Retrieved 2 August 2011.
  5. ^ Rice, Andrew (2 September 2010). "The Peanut Solution". New York Times Magazine. Retrieved 2 September 2010.
  6. ^ "BP-100™ RUTF Therapeutic food". Compact for Life. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
  7. ^ "MSF: Nutriset patent impeding access to treatment of Severe Acute Malnutrition". 13 November 2009. Retrieved 8 November 2015.

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