---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 C.F.R. § 981.466"
title: "7"
number: "981.466"
heading: "Almond butter."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/7/981.466"
---

# §981.466. Almond butter.


Almond butter as used in [§ 981.66(c)](/cfr/7/981.66.md?p=c) is hereby defined as a comminuted food product prepared by grinding shelled or blanched almonds into a homogeneous plastic or semiplastic mass or liquid having very few particles larger than 1/16 inch in any dimension. To produce chunky style almond butter, almond chunks or pieces may be added up to a maximum of 25 percent by weight of the finished product. The size of the almond pieces used to make chunky style almond butter may not exceed 5/16 inch in any dimension.


## Notes

### Amendments

[48 FR 11250, Mar. 17, 1983]

### Authority

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 601-674.

### Source

Source: 35 FR 11372, July 16, 1970, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[48 FR 11250, Mar. 17, 1983]