Fish and seafood

• Fish paste – prepared from fish parts through fermentation^[2]

• Anchovy paste

• Gentleman's Relish

• Muria – concentrated garum (fermented fish sauce) evaporated down to a thick paste with salt crystals was called muria;^[3] it would have been rich in protein, amino acids, minerals and B vitamins.^[4]
• Jakoten – Fried surimiPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
• Ngapi – Seafood paste used in Burmese cuisine
• Pissalat – French condiment made from anchovies
• Prahok – Cambodian salted and fermented fish paste

• Shrimp paste – made from fermented ground shrimp, either from fresh shrimp or dried ones, with the addition of salt. Prepared shrimp paste often has oil, sugar, garlic, chili, and other spices added.

• Saeu-jeot

• Surimi – refers to a paste made from fish or other meat and also refers to a number of Asian foods that use surimi as their primary ingredients

• Kamaboko

Fruit and vegetable

• Baba ghanoush – an eggplant (aubergine) based paste
• Date paste – used as a pastry filling
• Funge de bombo – a manioc paste used in northern Angola, and elsewhere in Africa
• Guava paste
• Hilbet – a paste made in Ethiopia and Eritrea from legumes, mainly lentils or faba beans, with garlic, ginger and spices^[5]
• Hummus – made from chickpeas with the addition of tahini, olive oil, lemon juice, salt and garlic^[6]
• Moretum
• Pesto
• Quince cheese
• Ssamjang – a Korean sesame- and bean-based paste used as a sauce on meat
• Tapenade – made from olives ground with anchovies or capers, spices and olive oil
• Tomato paste – made from boiling tomatoes until they form a thick paste which is stored for later use in soups, sauces and stews^[7]

Grain

• Farina
• Millet paste – consumed by the Fula people in the Sahel and West Africa,^[8] it is a main ingredient in nyiiri, a common Fula dish that is prepared using millet paste and a thick sauce^[8]
• Pamonha – a traditional Brazilian paste made from fresh corn and milk
• Polenta
• Mealy pop or bogobe – prepared from ground grain, usually maize or millet, and often fermented before cooking^[9]

Instant soup

• Erbswurst

Legume

• Black bean paste – type of sweet bean pastePages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
• Cheonggukjang – Korean fermented soybeans
• Doubanjiang – Chinese spicy bean paste ingredient
• Doenjang – Korean fermented bean paste
• Fermented bean paste – Fermented foods made from ground soybeans – made from ground soybeans which are then fermented
• Miso – Traditional Japanese seasoning
• Mung bean paste – Species of plant
• Red bean paste – Paste made from adzuki beans
• Sweet bean paste – Bean paste used in Asian cuisines
• Tauco – Indonesian fermented bean paste
• Tương – Condiment made from soybeans
• Yellow soybean paste – Chinese fermented soybean paste

Meat

• Chopped liver
• Pâté – finely chopped, finely ground or pureed highly seasoned meat, prepared using beef, pork, liver, or animal organs^[10]
• Pheasant paste
• Potted meat food product

Nut and seed

• Almond butter – Nut butter made from almonds
• Almond paste – sweet food originating from TurkeyPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
• Cashew butter – Food spread made from baked or roasted cashews
• Lotus seed paste – Chinese dessert ingredient
• Marzipan – made from almonds, with the addition of sugar and sometimes egg whites,^[11] it is used as a filling for confections, or hardened to serve as is
• Peanut butter^[12]
• Peanut paste – a product of peanuts and is used as an ingredient in sauces, baked goods and breakfast cereals, among others
• Plumpy'nut
• Satsivi – a Georgian specialty made from walnuts, it is used unsweetened as a bread dip, or sweetened as a filling in a baklava-like pastry
• Sunflower butter
• Tahini – made from ground sesame seeds^[13]

Spices and herbs

Sweet

• Cookie butter
• Fondant – a basic sugar paste used as an intermediary in the production of candies and icings^[14][15]

Yeast extracts

Yeast extracts, usually as byproduct from brewing beer,^[16] are made into food pastes, usually dark-brown in color.

• AussieMite – savory food spread companyPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
• Cenovis – Swiss brand of spread similar to Marmite
• Guinness Yeast Extract – Irish savoury spreadPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
• Marmite – UK brand of yeast extract spread
• Marmite (New Zealand) – Brand of spread made from yeast in New Zealand
• Oxo – Food ingredient brand
• Promite – Food paste
• Vegemite – Australian brand of spread made from yeast
• Vitam-R – Cell contents of yeast without the cell walls, used as a food additivePages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets