The result has a high fat content and can be spread like dairy butter.

Nut and seed butters have a high content of protein, fiber, and essential fatty acids, and can be used to replace butter or margarine on bread or toast.

Almond paste or marzipan was highly prized by the caliphs of Baghdad.

The most esteemed sweet was lauziinaq, an almond paste much like marzipan.

Many of these contain additional oils or other ingredients that may alter the nut butter's nutritional content.