Peanut paste

Peanut paste is a product of peanuts and is used as an ingredient in sauces, cookies, crackers (and other baked goods), breakfast cereals and ice cream.[1]

Peanut paste is the main ingredient of peanut butter.[2]

Method

Peanut paste is obtained by several methods of known in the food arts in which raw peanuts are roasted, blanched, and ground to create the peanut paste.

On the other hand, peanut butter comprises peanut paste as well as a stabilizing agent, a sweetening agent, salt, and optionally, an emulsifying agent.[2] Peanut butter is mainly known for being sold as a spread, and peanut paste is regularly sold to be used as an ingredient in cookies, cakes and a number of other retail food products.[3]

Distinction from peanut butter

A number of peanut paste products have been used over the centuries, and the distinction between peanut paste and peanut butter is not always clearcut in ordinary use.

The term has been used in rural Queensland, Australia, as a synonym for peanut butter.[4] This followed pressure from dairy farmers who did not want peanut butter competing with butter for market share.[5]

The product was known in Western Australia and South Australia for many years as peanut paste because, by definition, 'butter' is a dairy product. The same product was available in other states - presumably Queensland excepted - as peanut butter. Manufacturers complained about having to produce different labels for different states and the Western Australian government changed the rules on the use of the word 'butter' to allow for one set of labels.

As ingredient of peanut butter

Generally, peanut paste acts as the main ingredient in peanut butter, from 75% to as much as 99% of the recipe.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Steven Reinberg (2009-02-19). "Peanut Butter Product Recalls Mount". HealthDay News. U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved 2009-02-02. More companies pull products from shelves as FDA advises consumers not to eat anything but jars of peanut butter while salmonella probe continues
  2. 1 2 3 Izzo, Henry J., and Robert E. Lieberman. "Reduced-fat peanut butter compositions and methods for preparing same." U.S. Patent 5,240,734, issued August 31, 1993.
  3. ↑ Gibb, Gordon, "Peanut Butter Recall Spreading to More Products." LawyersandSettlements.com. January 18, 2009.
  4. ↑ "Peanut Butter or Peanut Paste?" pca.com.au. Peanut Company of Australia. February 9, 2005.
  5. ↑ http://www.peanutbutter.com.au/aboutus/about-our-product.aspx Archived January 24, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.
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