peanut paste
Peanut paste is a product of peanuts used in sauces, cookies, crackers (and other baked goods), breakfast cereals and ice cream.{{cite web | url = http://www.health.usnews.com/articles/health/healthday/2009/01/19/peanut-butter-product-recalls-mount.html | title = Peanut Butter Product Recalls Mount | accessdate = 2009-02-02 | author = Steven Reinberg | date = 2009-02-19 | work = HealthDay News | publisher = U.S. News & World Report | quote = More companies pull products from shelves as FDA advises consumers not to eat anything but jars of peanut butter while salmonella probe continues | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090708224159/http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/healthday/2009/01/19/peanut-butter-product-recalls-mount.html | archive-date = 2009-07-08 }}
'Peanut paste' is the main ingredient in some peanut butter recipes.
Method
Peanut paste is obtained by several methods in which raw peanuts are roasted, blanched, and ground to create the peanut paste.{{Citation needed|date=January 2021}}
Distinction from peanut butter
The distinction between peanut paste and peanut butter is not always clear cut in ordinary use. {{citation needed|date=July 2021}}
=Food labelling in Australia=
The term has been used in Queensland, Australia, as a synonym for peanut butter.[https://web.archive.org/web/20120321115754/http://www.pca.com.au/archive.php?subaction=showfull&id=1317391442&archive=&start_from=&ucat=73& "Peanut Butter or Peanut Paste?"] pca.com.au. Peanut Company of Australia. February 9, 2005, at the Wayback Machine. This followed pressure from dairy farmers who did not want peanut butter competing with butter for market share.{{cite web |url=http://www.peanutbutter.com.au/aboutus/about-our-product.aspx |title=Peanut Butter About Us!|website=www.peanutbutter.com.au |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100124092414/http://www.peanutbutter.com.au/aboutus/about-our-product.aspx |archive-date=January 24, 2010}}
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 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.{{Citation needed|date=January 2021}}
=As ingredient of peanut butter=
Peanut butter may be made from peanut paste mixed with a stabilizing agent, a sweetening agent, salt, and optionally, an emulsifying agent.Izzo, Henry J., and Robert E. Lieberman. [https://patents.google.com/patent/US5240734 "Reduced-fat peanut butter compositions and methods for preparing same."] U.S. Patent 5,240,734, issued August 31, 1993. In such formulas, peanut paste acts as the main ingredient in peanut butter, from 75% to as much as 99% of the recipe. 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.Gibb, Gordon, [http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/features/food-supplements/peanut-recall-cookies.html#.U66pGtkayc0 "Peanut Butter Recall Spreading to More Products."] LawyersandSettlements.com. January 18, 2009.