Our pal Scott > wrote:
> In article >,
> (J.J. in WA) wrote:
> > Quite right, I meant to say "low-fat" peanut butter. My mistake...
>
> If you compare low-fat peanut butters to regular, though the fat content
> is lower, the actual caloric content is usually about the same--often
> exactly the same. E.g.,
> <http://www.jif.com/products/details.asp?prodID=325>
> <http://www.jif.com/products/details.asp?prodID=330>
>
> Reduced Fat Jif Creamy and Regular Jif Creamy. The regular has 16g of
> fat, the reduced fat has 12g of fat. But the reduced fat has 15g of
> carbs, the regular, 7g. Both have 190 calories.
I don't buy reduced fat peanut butter, so I wasn't aware of this.
I wonder what carbs they're replacing the fat with...
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