It’s basically peanut butter with some added ingredients: dried milk, oil, sugar, and essential minerals and vitamins. Among specialists, the life-saving peanut butter paste is called a ready-to-use therapeutic food — an RUTF.

Who owns plumpy nut?

Plumpy’Nut is manufactured by the French company Nutriset, which sold 43,500 tons of the stuff last year, resulting in revenues of €123 million ($132 million), according to Le Monde.

How is plumpy nut made and used?

It’s called Plumpy’Nut®, also known as Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food. Many call it the magical product. It’s a high-energy peanut paste containing sugar, vegetable oil and skimmed milk powder, and enriched with vitamins and minerals. Plumpy’Nut® is used to treat severe acute malnutrition in young children.