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Bookmark or Share- What is Plumpy'Nut? | Doctors Without Borders - USAPlumpy’Nut is the brand name for a type of ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) that Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams use in our nutrition programs around the world.
- How Plumpy’Nut® ‘peanut butter’ has changed the worldPlumpy’Nut® also known as Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food is 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. Only three sachets a day for six to eight weeks can be all it takes to save a child’s life.
- Africa's miracle food: plumpy'nut | MSFPlumpy nut, a fortified peanut butter stuffed with milk and vitamins is the undisputed hero of the current crisis in Niger, where 3.6 million people 800,000 of them children face severe food shortages.
- RUTF and CMAM: The Story of a Humanitarian Revolution - Concern WorldwideWhat Is RUTF? RUTF (ready-to-use therapeutic food) gives malnourished children the vital nutrients they need to recover. The original and most well-known RUTF, Plumpy’nut, was invented in 1996 by French pediatrician André Briend. As the name suggests, Plumpy’nut is a peanut-based paste served in a foil pouch.
- Plumpy'nut - WikipediaPlumpy'Nut is a peanut-based paste in a plastic wrapper for treatment of severe acute malnutrition manufactured by Nutriset, a French company. Feeding with the 92-gram (3 + 1 ⁄ 4 oz) packets of this paste reduces the need for hospitalization. It can be administered at home, allowing more people to be treated.
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