Peanut butter is a food paste or spread made from ground, dry-roasted peanuts. It commonly contains additional ingredients that modify the taste or texture, such as salt, sweeteners, or emulsifiers. Consumed in many countries, it is the most commonly used of the nut butters, a group that also includes cashew butter and almond butter.
"Smooth" peanut butter in a jar
Peanut butter cookies, a popular type of cookie made from peanut butter and other ingredients
Buckeyes, a type of peanut-butter-based confectionery product
A tractor being used to complete the first stage of the peanut harvesting process
A food paste is a semi-liquid colloidal suspension, emulsion, or aggregation used in food preparation or eaten directly as a spread. Pastes are often highly spicy or aromatic, are often prepared well in advance of actual usage, and are often made into a preserve for future use. Common pastes are some fruit preserves, curry pastes, and nut pastes. Purées are food pastes made from already cooked ingredients.
Prepared shrimp paste with chilli, Thai lime leaves, sugar and water added.
Duxelles being cooked, which is eventually reduced into a paste
Shrimp paste from Thanh Hoa province, Vietnam
Erbswurst, a traditional instant pea soup from Germany, is a concentrated paste