mixed nuts

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Etymology

The United States standard of identity comes from 21 CFR 164.110.

Noun

mixed nuts pl (plural only)

  1. A mixture of shelled nuts of various types.
    1. (Should we delete(+) this sense?) (US standards of identity) A mixture of: shelled peanuts (optional); at least four types of shelled tree nuts (or at least three, if the container for sale contains less than two ounces and is transparent), each in a proportion of at least two percent; and, optionally, other functional ingredients. No one type of nuts may comprise more than eighty percent of the mixture.
  2. (by extension) A mishmash.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:hodgepodge
    • 2024 August 4, Danzy Senna, “In Kamala Harris’s Blackness, I See My Own”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
      Multiracial, mulatto, mixed-nuts, halfies: Whatever you want to call us today, we remain the fastest growing demographic in our country.

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