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Peanut butter

Peanut butter is made from ground, roasted peanuts and can be creamy or crunchy. Cooks use it as a condiment with bread, oatmeal, bananas, or fruit preserves.

  • Allergen: peanuts

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Made from
Peanut
Texture
Creamy, crunchy, soft
Cooked most in
Africa
Top country
Ghana
Peanut butter, packaged

Photo: Shisma · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use peanut butter

Preparing it

Mix powdered peanut butter with water to make a paste.

Goes well with

Flavour

Taste and texture

Texture

  • Creamy
  • Crunchy
  • Soft

Shopping

Choosing and storing peanut butter

Sold as
Powder

Nutrition

What 100 g of peanut butter holds

Per 100 g. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.

Protein 25%Fat 51%Carbohydrate 24%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of peanut butter
Energy632 kcal · 2,462 kJ
Protein24 g
Fat49 g
of which saturated8.4 g
Carbohydrate23 g
of which sugars6.5 g
Fibre6.3 g
Sodium221 mg
Cholesterol0 mg
Nutrition per 100 g of peanut butter: minerals and vitamins
Potassium654 mg
Calcium50 mg
Iron1.9 mg
Magnesium193 mg
Zinc3.1 mg
Folate97 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (foods 174294, 2262072), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

Around the world

Where peanut butter is cooked

1 dish in the catalogue uses peanut butter. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list peanut butter among their ingredients.

Origins

  1. 1884 · Canada

    Marcellus Gilmore Edson received a patent for a peanut butter production method.

  2. 1894 · United States

    George Bayle produced and sold peanut butter as a snack.

  3. 1917 · United States

    Peanut butter was a favored choice during meat rationing.

  4. 1922

    Joseph L. Rosefield invented a process to reduce oil separation in smooth peanut butter.

  5. 1926 · South Africa

    Alderton Limited first produced peanut butter in South Africa.

  6. 1948 · Netherlands

    Peanut butter entered the Dutch market under a name other than peanut butter.

On the table

Dishes made with peanut butter

1 dish in the catalogue uses it.

  • Plasas

    Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include peanut butter.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: peanut butter in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
Contains: peanuts
Animal origin
No animal ingredients foundChecked and not found: egg, fish, meat, dairy, honey, insect, poultry, shellfish, other animal.
Caffeine
None

Family

Related forms

Made from
peanut (ground, roasted)

Cooked together

Ingredients that go into the same catalogued dishes.
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Around the world

What peanut butter is called

Names in 67 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    mantequilla de maní · mantequilla de mani · crema de mani · peanut butter

  • French

    beurre d'arachide · peanut butter · beurre de cacahouète · beurre de cacahuètes

  • Italian

    burro di arachidi · crema di arachidi · peanut butter · crema di noccioline

  • Portuguese

    manteiga de amendoim

  • German

    Erdnussbutter · Erdnusscreme · Erdnußbutter · Peanut butter

  • Dutch

    pindakaas · Pindaboter

  • Greek

    φιστικοβούτυρο

  • Turkish

    fıstık ezmesi

  • Russian

    арахисовая паста · арахисовое масло

  • Polish

    masło orzechowe

  • Arabic

    زبدة فول سوداني · Peanut Butter

  • Persian

    کره بادام زمینی · کرهٔ بادام زمینی · کره‌ی بادام زمینی

Show all 67 languages

  • Afrikaans

    grondboontjiebotter

  • Armenian

    Գետնանուշի կարագ

  • Basque

    kakahuete-gurin · kakahuete-gurina

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    арахісавае масла · арахісавая паста

  • Bikol

    Peanut butter

  • Brazilian Portuguese

    manteiga de amendoim

  • Bulgarian

    фъстъчено масло

  • Cantonese

    花生醬 · peanut butter · peanut paste

  • Catalan

    mantega de cacauet

  • Central Kurdish

    کەرەی پاقلە

  • Cheyenne

    oó'xôseonéame

  • Chinese

    花生酱

  • Colognian

    Pindakaas · Pindakaaß

  • Czech

    burákové máslo · buráková pomazánka · arašídové máslo

  • Danish

    jordnøddesmør · jordnødssmør

  • Egyptian Arabic

    زبدة الفول السودانى

  • Esperanto

    arakida butero · arakidaĵo

  • Estonian

    maapähklivõi

  • Finnish

    maapähkinävoi · pähkinävoi

  • Galician

    manteiga de cacahuete

  • Hebrew

    חמאת בוטנים

  • Hindi

    पीनट बटर

  • Hungarian

    mogyoróvaj

  • Icelandic

    hnetusmjör

  • Indonesian

    selai kacang

  • Irish

    im piseanna talún

  • Japanese

    ピーナッツ・バター · ピーナツ・バター

  • Javanese

    selé kacang

  • Kannada

    ಪೀನಟ್ ಬಟರ್

  • Korean

    땅콩버터 · 땅콩잼

  • Latin

    Butyrum arachidum

  • Latvian

    zemesriekstu sviests

  • Lingala

    mwǎmba-ngúba · mwǎmba

  • Lithuanian

    žemės riešutų sviestas

  • Low German

    Eerdnöötbotter

  • Macedonian

    путер од кикиритки

  • Malagasy

    Menaka voanjo

  • Malay

    mentega kacang

  • Māori

    pīnati pata

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    peanøttsmør

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    Peanøttsmør

  • Romanian

    unt de arahide · pastă de arahide

  • Serbian

    путер од кикирикија

  • Shona

    dovi

  • Simplified Chinese

    花生酱

  • Simplified Chinese (China)

    花生酱

  • Simplified Chinese (Singapore)

    花生酱

  • Slovak

    arašidové maslo

  • Slovenian

    arašidovo maslo

  • Swahili

    siagi ya karanga

  • Swedish

    jordnötssmör · jordnötsmör

  • Swiss High German

    Erdnussbutter

  • Thai

    เนยถั่วลิสง · เนยถั่ว

  • Traditional Chinese

    花生醬

  • Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China)

    花生醬

  • Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)

    花生醬

  • Ukrainian

    арахісова паста

  • Venetian

    butiro de bajijo · smalso de bagìgio · smalso de bajijo · butiro de bagìgio

  • Vietnamese

    bơ đậu phộng

  • Welsh

    menyn cnau mwnci · menyn pysgnau

  • Western Frisian

    nútsjesmoar

  • Wolof

    tigadege

  • Wu Chinese

    花生酱

Sources and credits

Data

Wikidata item: Q147651

Photos

Photo: Shisma · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons