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Plumpy'Nut may be referred to in scientific literature as a [[Therapeutic food#Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food|Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food]] (RUTF) alongside other RUTFs such as BP100.<ref>{{Cite web |title=BP-100™ RUTF Therapeutic food |publisher=Compact for Life |url=http://www.compactforlife.com/bp-100-rutf/ |access-date=10 April 2012 |archive-date=28 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120328130326/http://www.compactforlife.com/bp-100-rutf/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Nutriset has been criticized by [[Médecins Sans Frontières]] for enforcing its Plumpy'nut [[patent]]s.<ref>{{cite web|title=MSF: Nutriset patent impeding access to treatment of Severe Acute Malnutrition|date=13 November 2009 |url=http://www.msfaccess.org/content/msf-nutriset-patent-impeding-access-treatment-severe-acute-malnutrition|access-date=8 Nov 2015}}</ref> Since then howeverHowever, {{as of|2018|lc=y}}, Plumpy'nut patents have expired in the [[US]], [[UK]] and the [[European Union]].

==Use==

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While the majority of Plumpy'Nut was made in France as of 2010, this therapeutic food is easily produced<ref name=nyt/> and can be made locally in peanut-growing areas by mixing peanut paste with a slurry of other ingredients provisioned by Nutriset.<ref name="network">{{Cite web |title=The PlumpyField network : how it works |publisher=Nutriset |url=http://www.nutriset.fr/en/international-networks/plumpyfield-network/plumpyfield-how-it-works.html?searched=plumpyfield&advsearch=oneword&highlight=ajaxSearch_highlight+ajaxSearch_highlight1 |access-date=3 August 2011 |archive-date=30 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930204427/http://www.nutriset.fr/en/international-networks/plumpyfield-network/plumpyfield-how-it-works.html?searched=plumpyfield&advsearch=oneword&highlight=ajaxSearch_highlight%20ajaxSearch_highlight1 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

A number of partner companies and one non-profit organization in the U.S. state of [[Rhode Island]] make Plumpy'Nut. There are six factories in African countries ([[Niger]], [[Burkinaincluding Faso]],two [[Ethiopia]],U.S. [[Sudan]]nonprofits, [[Madagascar]],Edesia [[KenyaNutrition]]), one in [[HaitiRhode Island]] and another oneMana in [[IndiaGeorgia_(U.S._state)|Georgia]].<ref name=network/'fox424'>

{{cite news

|last= Smith

|first= Cory

|date= April 24, 2025

|title= Food for starving children piles up in Rhode Island warehouse amid cuts to USAID

|url= https://foxbaltimore.com/news/nation-world/food-for-starving-children-piles-up-in-rhode-island-warehouse-amid-cuts-to-usaid-edesia-plumpynut-fortified-peanut-butter-state-department-doge-us-agency-for-international-development-foreign-assistance

|newspaper=WBFF Fox45

|___location= Baltimore, Maryland

|access-date= May 17, 2025}}

</ref> There are six factories in African countries ([[Niger]], [[Burkina Faso]], [[Ethiopia]], [[Sudan]], [[Madagascar]], [[Kenya]]), one in [[Haiti]] and another one in [[India]].<ref name=network/><ref name='uglyturn'>

{{cite news

|last= Sargent

|first= Greg

|date= February 25, 2025

|title= Musk Scandal at USAID Takes Ugly Turn, Putting Starving Kids at Risk

|url= https://newrepublic.com/article/191935/usaid-musk-scandal-starving-kids

|newspaper=The New Republic

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|access-date= June 4, 2025 }}

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Plumpy'Nut is distributed from the manufacturer to geographic areas of need through a complex [[supply chain]]. Forward (downstream) information flow, such as projections of need, [[order processing]], and [[payment processing]], and backward (upstream) information flow, including [[inventory|stock monitoring]], [[quality assurance]], and performance data occur through information exchange vulnerable to errors or tardiness associated with supply chain [[fragmentation (economics)|fragmentation]].<ref name="unc">{{cite web|url=http://www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/~/media/Files/documents/cse/unicef-plumpy-nut-supply-chain.pdf|title=UNICEF's Plumpy'Nut supply chain|author=Swaminathan JK|publisher=University of North Carolina, Kenan-Flagler Business School, Center for Sustainable Enterprise|date=2009|access-date=3 June 2014|archive-date=6 June 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606232814/http://www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/~/media/Files/documents/cse/unicef-plumpy-nut-supply-chain.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="ft">{{cite web|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/edb873a2-d6ef-11df-aaab-00144feabdc0.html#axzz33bYXDfd6|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221211221215/https://www.ft.com/content/edb873a2-d6ef-11df-aaab-00144feabdc0#axzz33bYXDfd6|archive-date=11 December 2022|url-access=subscription|url-status=live|title=Case study: Getting food to disaster victims|publisher=Financial Times|author=Swaminathan J|date=13 October 2010|access-date=3 June 2014}}</ref>