Plumpy'Nut treats 5 million malnourished children every year. How is it affected by USAID cuts?
March 3, 2025
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as posted by the channelThe upheaval of U.S. foreign aid is impacting a company in Rhode Island that makes a product called Plumpy’Nut that helps treat 5 million malnourished children each year.
Plumpy'Nut is basically fortified peanut butter. The product’s ingredients — peanuts, milk powder, soy whey — all come from U.S. farmers.
The company, Edesia Nutrition, is still owed $22 million by the U.S. government and just learned that all their shipment companies that deliver Plumpy'Nut to among the poorest places in the world - like Haiti and Sudan - had their contracts with the U.S. government abruptly ended this week. Many clinics and hospitals are in the same boat.
And the company says even if they get paid the $22 million and restart their production, those shippers, hospitals and clinics are also essential in getting Plumpy'Nut to the kids who need it.
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