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'''Plumpy'Nut''' is a [[peanut]]-based paste in a plastic wrapper for treatment of [[malnutrition|severe acute malnutrition]] manufactured by [[Nutriset]], a French company.<ref name=off>{{Cite web |title=Plumpy'Nut®: Ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) |publisher=Nutriset |url=http://www.nutriset.fr/en/product-range/produit-par-produit/plumpynut-ready-to-use-therapeutic-food-rutf.html |access-date=2 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930141832/http://www.nutriset.fr/en/product-range/produit-par-produit/plumpynut-ready-to-use-therapeutic-food-rutf.html |archive-date=30 September 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=nyt>{{cite news |first=Andrew |last=Rice |title=The Peanut Solution |work=[[The New York Times Magazine|New York Times Magazine]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/magazine/05Plumpy-t.html |date=2 September 2010 |access-date=2 September 2010}}</ref> RemovingFeeding the need for hospitalization,with the {{convert|92|g|oz|frac=4|adj=on}} packets of this paste reduces the need for hospitalization. It can be administered at home, and allowallowing largermore numberspeople to be treated.<ref name=off/>

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}}</ref>

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

==Use==