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A nut butter is a spreadable foodstuff made by crushing nut
Nut (fruit)

Nut is a general term for the large, dry, oily seed or fruit of some plant. While a wide variety of dried seeds and fruits are called nuts, only a certain number of them are considered by biologists to be true nuts....
s. The result has a high fat content and can be spread like true butter
Butter

Butter is a dairy product made by churning fresh or fermentation cream or milk. It is generally used as a spread and a condiment, as well as in cooking applications such as baking, sauce making, and frying....
, but is otherwise unrelated. Nut butters include:



None of the almond, cashew, macadamia, peanut or pistachio are true nuts in a botanical sense.






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A nut butter is a spreadable foodstuff made by crushing nut
Nut (fruit)

Nut is a general term for the large, dry, oily seed or fruit of some plant. While a wide variety of dried seeds and fruits are called nuts, only a certain number of them are considered by biologists to be true nuts....
s. The result has a high fat content and can be spread like true butter
Butter

Butter is a dairy product made by churning fresh or fermentation cream or milk. It is generally used as a spread and a condiment, as well as in cooking applications such as baking, sauce making, and frying....
, but is otherwise unrelated. Nut butters include:

  • Almond butter
    Almond butter

    Almond butter is a food paste similar to peanut butter, except that it is made from almonds. Being made from almonds rather than peanuts, it is considered hypoallergenic, and, as such, it is easier for those with food sensitivities to digest....
  • Cashew
    Cashew

    The cashew is a tree in the flowering plant family Anacardiaceae. The plant is native to northeastern Brazil. Its English language name derives from the Portuguese language name for the fruit of the cashew tree, caju, which in turn derives from the indigenous Tupi language name, acaj?....
     butter
  • Hazelnut butter
  • Macadamia
    Macadamia

    Macadamia is a genus of nine species of flowering plants in the family Proteaceae, with a disjunct distribution native to eastern Australia , New Caledonia and Sulawesi in Indonesia ....
     nut butter
  • Peanut butter
    Peanut butter

    Peanut butter is a food paste made primarily from ground roasted peanuts, with or without added oil. It is popular throughout the world and is also manufactured in some emerging markets....
  • Pecan
    Pecan

    The Pecan is a species of hickory, native to south-central North America, in the United States from southern Iowa, Illinois and Indiana east to western Kentucky, North Carolina and western Tennessee, south through Georgia , Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas ; and in Mexico from Coahuila south to Jalisco and Veracr...
     butter
  • Pistachio
    Pistachio

    The pistachio is a small tree native to mountainous regions of Iran, Turkmenistan, Turkey and western Afghanistan, that produces an important nut #Culinary definition and uses....
     butter
  • Walnut
    Walnut

    Walnuts are plants in the family Juglandaceae. They are deciduous trees, 10–40 meter s tall , with pinnate leaves 200?900 millimetres long , with 5–25 leaflets; the shoots have chambered pith, a character shared with the wingnut but not the hickory in the same family....
     butter


None of the almond, cashew, macadamia, peanut or pistachio are true nuts in a botanical sense. However, because they are considered nuts in a culinary sense, their crushed spreads are called nut butters. Similar spreads can also be made from seeds not considered nuts in a culinary sense:

  • Pumpkin
    Pumpkin

    Pumpkin is a gourd-like Squash of the genus Cucurbita and the family Cucurbitaceae . It is a common name of or can refer to cultivars of any one of the following species: Cucurbita pepo, Cucurbita mixta, Cucurbita maxima, and Cucurbita moschata....
     seed butter
  • Sesame seed butter (usually called tahini
    Tahini

    Tahini, tahine, tehina, or sesame paste is a paste of ground sesame seeds used in cooking. Middle Eastern tahini is made of husk, lightly roasted seeds....
    )
  • Soybean
    Soybean

    The soybean or soya bean is a species of legume native to East Asia. The plant is classed as an oilseed rather than a Pulse . It is an annual plant that has been used in China for 5,000 years as a food and a component of drugs....
     butter
  • Sunflower
    Sunflower

    The sunflower is an annual plant in the family Asteraceae and native to the Americas, with a large flowering head . The stem can grow as high as 3 meters , and the flower head can reach 30 cm in diameter with the "large" seeds....
     seed butter


Nut and seed butters are rich in protein
Protein

Proteins are organic compounds made of amino acids arranged in a linear chain and joined together by peptide bonds between the carboxyl and amino groups of adjacent amino acid Residue ....
, fiber
Dietary fiber

Dietary fiber, sometimes called "roughage", is the indigestible portion of plant foods that pushes food through the digestive system, absorbing water and easing defecation....
, and essential fatty acid
Essential fatty acid

Essential fatty acids, or EFAs, are fatty acids that cannot be constructed within an organism from other components by any known chemical pathways, and therefore must be obtained from the diet....
s and can be used to replace butter
Butter

Butter is a dairy product made by churning fresh or fermentation cream or milk. It is generally used as a spread and a condiment, as well as in cooking applications such as baking, sauce making, and frying....
 or margarine
Margarine

Margarine , as a generic term, can indicate any of a wide range of butter substitutes. In many parts of the world, margarine has become the best-selling table spread, although butter and olive oil also command large market shares....
 on bread
Bread

Bread is a staple food prepared by baking a dough of flour and water. It may be leavened or unleavened. Edible salt, fat and a leavening agent such as yeast are common ingredients, though bread may contain a range of other ingredients: milk, Egg , sugar, spice, fruit , vegetables , Nut or seeds ....
 or toast
Toast

Toast is sliced bread which has been browned by exposure to dry heat . This browning reaction is a form of the Maillard reaction. Toasting warms the bread, making it more pleasant to eat for some, and makes it crisp such that it holds toppings more securely....
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The following table gives some of the nutrition
Nutrition

Nutrition is the provision, to cells and organisms, of the materials necessary to support life. Many common health problems can be prevented or alleviated with good nutrition....
al properties of a selection of nut and seed butters:

Butter Calories
(1 tbsp.) 		Protein
(g) 		Fat
(g) 		Calcium
(mg) 		Zinc
(mg)
Almond butter 101 2.4 9.5 43 0.5
Cashew butter 93 2.8 8 7 0.8
Hazelnut butter 94 2 9.5 N/A N/A
Peanut butter - natural 94 3.8 8 7 0.4
Peanut butter - reduced fat 95 4 6 N/A 0.4
Sunflower butter 80 3 7 N/A N/A
Soy butter (sweetened) 85 4 5.5 50 N/A
Soy butter (unsweetened) 80 4 6.5 30 N/A
Soy-peanut butter (added sweetener) 50 2 1.2 40 N/A
Tahini
Tahini

Tahini, tahine, tehina, or sesame paste is a paste of ground sesame seeds used in cooking. Middle Eastern tahini is made of husk, lightly roasted seeds....
 89 2.6 8 64 0.7