Sat, Jan-24-04, 16:02
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Butter Tastes Better
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hmmm I just went to their website to look for the splenda skippy. I couldnt find it in their products list but I did find.
What is peanut butter?
Peanut butter, as defined by the U.S. FDA's Standard of Identity, must consist of at least 90 percent peanuts with no more than 10 percent by weight seasoning and stabilizing ingredients. These optional ingredients may include salt, sugars and partially hydrogenated vegetable oil. They may not include lard or other animal fats, artificial flavorings, artificial sweeteners , chemical preservatives or colors.
So it seems the US FDA must have changed their standards or this new skippy isnt peanut butter lol.
They also admitted to having transfats in their peanut butter.
Trace amounts they claim.
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What are trans fats?
Trans fatty acids occur naturally in meat and dairy products. Trans fatty acids are produced during the hydrogenation of vegetable oil, a process that adds hydrogen to unsaturated fatty acids in vegetable oil in order to change the fat from a liquid to a solid state.
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Does Skippy peanut butter contain trans fats?
By U.S. FDA definition, Skippy peanut butter is a trans-fat free food.
Most commercial peanut butters contain small amounts (typically less than 2%) of a partially hydrogenated fat, which prevents oil separation by helping the peanut butter "set up" a fat structure. This partially hydrogenated fat is almost totally saturated and contains only an insignificant trace amount of trans fats.
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I found it amusing that they didnt mention any dangers associated with trans fats. |