# List of spreads

This is a list of spreads. A spread is a food that is literally spread, generally with a knife, onto food items such as bread or crackers. Spreads are added to food to enhance the flavour or texture of the food, which may be considered bland without it.

## Spreads

* Aioli – sauce made of garlic, salt, and olive oil of the northwest Mediterranean
* Ajvar – Southeast European condiment made from red bell peppers, eggplants, garlic, and oil
* Amlu – Moroccan spread of argan oil, almonds, and honey
* Bacon jam
* Bean dip – sometimes used as a spread
* Beer jam
* Biber salçası – Anatolian paste made from red chili peppers or sweet long peppers and salt
* Biscoff – sweet paste made from Biscoff biscuits
* Butter
   * Rucava white butter
   * Bretel butter
   * Chocolate butter
* Chutney – sauce of the Indian subcontinent of tomato relish, a ground peanut garnish or a yogurt, cucumber, and mint dip
* Cheong – various sweetened Korean foods in the form of syrups, marmalades, and fruit preserves
* Chocolate spread
** Gianduja
** Nutella – a popular brand of sweetened hazelnut cocoa spread
** Nutkao
* Citadel spread – paste made of peanut butter, oil, sugar, and milk powder
* Clotted cream
* Coconut jam - a general term for coconut-based jams in Southeast Asia. Coconut jams include kaya of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore; sangkhaya of Thailand; and matamis sa bao, latik, or kalamay of the Philippines.
* Cookie butter
* Cretons – pork spread containing onions and spices, from Quebec
* Dulce de leche – confection from Latin America prepared by slowly heating sweetened milk
* Egg butter
* Electuary (Larwerge) – a honey-thickened juice spread popular in Switzerland, often made with forest fruit such as juniper or pine
* Féroce – made of avocados, cassava, olive oil, lime juice, salt cod, garlic, chili peppers, hot sauce, and seasonings, from Martinique
* Filet américain – Belgian variation of Steak tartare
* Flora
* Foie gras
* Guacamole
* Heinz Sandwich Spread
* Honey
* Hummus – a spread of Middle Eastern origin made from cooked, mashed chickpeas blended with tahini, lemon juice, and garlic; standard garnish in the Middle East includes olive oil, a few whole chickpeas, parsley, and paprika.
* Smörgåskaviar – a fish roe spread eaten in Scandinavia and Finland
* Kartoffelkäse
* Kaya (jam) – coconut jam, commonly eaten as kaya toast
* Kyopolou – Bulgarian and Turkish spread made from roasted eggplants and garlic
* Lard
* Latik – also known as "coconut caramel", a traditional Filipino sweet syrup made from coconut milk and sugar
* Liver spread – also known as "lechon sauce", a Filipino spread made from pureed cooked pork or chicken liver with spices, vinegar, and brown sugar
* Ljutenica – vegetable relish or chutney in Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Serbia
* Manjar blanco – term used in Spanish-speaking world to a variety of milk-based delicacies
* Manteca colorá – Andalusian spread prepared by adding spices and paprika to lard, cooked with minced or finely chopped pieces of pork
* Maple butter
* Margarine
* Marmite
* Marshmallow creme
* Mett – a preparation of minced raw pork seasoned with salt and black pepper that is popular in Germany and Poland
* Mint jelly
* Moambe – also referred to as palm butter or palm cream
* Mayonnaise
* Miracle Whip
* 'Nduja – a spicy, spreadable pork sausage or salumi from Calabria, Italy
* Nut butter
** Almond butter
** Cashew butter
** Hazelnut butter
** Peanut butter
* Obatzda – a Bavarian cheese spread, prepared by mixing two thirds aged soft cheese, usually Camembert and one third butter
* Palm butter – a spread made of palm oil designed to imitate dairy butter
* Paprykarz szczeciński – Polish spread made from ground fish, rice, tomato paste, vegetable oil, onion, salt and spices
* Pâté
** Chopped liver
** Liver pâté
** Pheasant paste
* Pesto – a paste that traditionally consists of crushed garlic, European pine nuts, coarse salt, basil leaves, and hard cheese such as Parmigiano-Reggiano or Pecorino Sardo, all blended with olive oil
* Peabutter
* Pimento cheese
* Pindjur – Bulgarian, Serbian, Bosnian and Macedonian spread which ingredients include red bell peppers, tomatoes, garlic, vegetable oil and salt
* Plum butter
** Powidl - a type of fruit spread prepared from the prune plum, that is popular in Central Europe.
** Magiun of Topoloveni - a Romanian traditional plum butter that does not contain sweeteners or other additives, which has received a Protected Geographical Status from the European Union in 2011.
* Remoulade – European cold sauce based on mayonnaise
* Rillettes – French paste made with pork or other meats and sometimes with anchovies, tuna, or salmon
* Schmaltz – rendered (clarified) chicken or goose fat
* Sobrassada – typical from the Balearic Isles, made from pork, paprika, salt, and other spices
* Sunflower butter
* Tahini – paste made from ground, husked, hulled sesame seeds
* Tapenade – Provençal spread of puréed or finely chopped olives, capers, and anchovies
* Taramasalata – Greek meze made from salted and cured roe of the cod, carp, or grey mullet mixed with olive oil, lemon juice, and bread or potatoes
* Tartar sauce
* Teewurst – a German sausage made from two parts raw pork (and sometimes beef) and one part bacon, it contains 30 to 40 percent fat, which makes it particularly easy to spread
* Vegemite – a thick, dark brown Australian food spread made from leftover brewers' yeast extract with various vegetable and spice additives
* Zacuscă – vegetable spread popular in Romania and Moldova
* Various spreads
* Bacon jam atop bread
* Cashew butter being ground
* Manteca colorá
* Maple butter
* Peanut butter in a jar
* Rillettes
* Tapenade

### Cheeses and cheese spreads

Cheeses used as a spread and cheese spreads include:
* Almogrote
* Alouette cheese
* Beer cheese
* Benedictine
* Brie – sometimes used as a spread
* Catupiry
* Cheez Whiz
* Cervelle de canut
* Cold pack cheese
* Cottage cheese
* Cream cheese
* Creole cream cheese
* Cup cheese
* Dairylea
* Easy Cheese
* Eden
* Farmer cheese – sometimes used as a spread
* Fromage blanc
* Fromage fort
* Kraft Singles
* Laughing Cow
* Liptauer
* Magnolia
* Moretum
* Obatzda
* Pimento cheese
* Port wine cheese
* Prim
* Primula cheese spread
* Pub cheese
* Requeijão
* Rushan cheese
* Tirokafteri
* Urnebes
* Velveeta

### Fruit spreads and preserves

Fruit spreads and preserves include:
* Apple butter – Caramelized, concentrated apple sauce
* Apricot Jam
* Bar-le-duc jelly
* Berry Jam
** Berries
* Birnenhonig
* Cabell d'àngel
* Chutney
* Coconut jam
* Confit
* Confiture
* Confiture de lait
* Conserves
* Eggplant jam
* Fruit butter
* Fruit curd
* Guava jelly
* Hagebuttenmark – a fruit preserve made from rose hips, sugar and sometimes red wine
* Lekvar
* Lingonberry jam
* Marmalade
* Nièr beurre
* Pepper jelly
* Powidl – a plum butter prepared without additional sweeteners or gelling agents
* Quince cheese
* Sirop de Liège – prepared using evaporated fruit juices
* Tomato jam
* Ube halaya – also known as ube jam
* Yuja-cheong
* Fruit spreads and preserves
* Close-up view of a coconut jam
* Pancakes with lingonberry jam
* Homemade English marmalade
* A jar of nièr beurre
* Red pepper jelly
* Powidl plum butter
* Quince cheese
* Strawberry jam

### Yeast extract spreads

Yeast extract spreads include:
* AussieMite
* Cenovis
* Guinness Yeast Extract
* Marmite
* Marmite (New Zealand)
* Oxo
* Promite
* Vegemite
* Vitam-R