Nutrient paste, also known as food paste or protein paste, was a type of food found in some ration packs. The paste was full of nutrients, particularly protein. Nutrient paste could be heated and scrambled, but that would do little to improve the taste. Leia Organa jokingly thought that the paste sometimes included in Rebel Alliance ration packs may have been hull caulk, as it looked and tasted like it. The First Order had a gray paste which Vi Moradi compared to a deconstructed chicken that had passed through a happabore, while the version she later ate on Parnassos was light-brown with a chemical taste so strong that it seemed cold. Aboard the transport barge Wayward Current, crewmembers could purchase ration packs that contained bread and tubes of nutrient paste.
Nutrient paste first appeared in the Star Wars Legends comic story Star Wars (1977) 28, published in 1979. In 2014, it appeared as "food paste" in the first novel of the new canon, A New Dawn. It became "protein paste" in the 2016 novel Aftermath: Life Debt, then appeared again as protein paste in the 2017 novel Phasma, eaten by the characters Cardinal and Vi Moradi. The name nutrient paste was reintroduced in the 2017 junior novel The Legends of Luke Skywalker. In 2019's Galaxy's Edge: Black Spire, Moradi referred to the protein paste she previously ate as nutrient paste.
Nutrient paste first appeared in the Star Wars Legends comic story Star Wars (1977) 28, published in 1979. In 2014, it appeared as "food paste" in the first novel of the new canon, A New Dawn. It became "protein paste" in the 2016 novel Aftermath: Life Debt, then appeared again as protein paste in the 2017 novel Phasma, eaten by the characters Cardinal and Vi Moradi. The name nutrient paste was reintroduced in the 2017 junior novel The Legends of Luke Skywalker. In 2019's Galaxy's Edge: Black Spire, Moradi referred to the protein paste she previously ate as nutrient paste.