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It may be peanuts to consumers, but it's millions of dollars to the nation's peanut growers. Both Skippy and Peter Pan have introduced peanut buter products with 25 percent less fat than regular peanut butter--but with significantly fewer peanuts as well.
That means the new items do not meet the government's legal definition for peanut butter, which must be 90 percent peanuts, so a trade group called the Peanut Advisory Board wants the Food and Drug Administration to insist immediately that they be called peanut spreads rather than peanut butter. "Inaction or dealy will only cause consumer confusion, deception, and disruption to the orderly and fair marketing of…