Peanut butter
Ready-to-use therapeutic foods, which possibly mimic the Citadel Spread recipe, are manufactured for treatment of severe acute malnutrition, as shown in one clinical report. Such formulations support rapid weight gain, supply multiple essential nutrients and are easy for children to eat because they can feed themselves the soft paste from a tear-open individual package. The fortified peanut butter-like paste contains fats, carbohydrates, proteins (macronutrients), vitamins and minerals (micronutrients). Peanut butter is relatively high in calories and an excellent source of vitamin E, B vitamins, dietary fiber and numerous dietary minerals.