Is Skippy Natural recalled? Who owns Skippy peanut butter?

Some Skippy peanut butter products are being recalled due to the presence of small stainless steel fragments in them from a piece of manufacturing equipment.

Hormel, the food manufacturing behemoth that owns the Skippy brand, announced on Thursday that it is recalling 161,692 pounds of peanut butter products voluntarily.

Skippy’s Reduced Fat Creamy Peanut Butter Spread, Reduced Fat Chunky Peanut Butter Spread, and Creamy Peanut Butter Blended With Plant Protein jars are included in the recall.

The products in question were made in Little Rock, Arkansas, and were shipped to California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin.

Skippy, the peanut butter brand, has been sold for $700 million (£431 million) to the same US company that owns Spam. Hormel Foods, which also owns Wholly Guacamole, purchased the brand from Anglo-Dutch food conglomerate Unilever.