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Fitness fanatic consumes a little bit of a snack (6)

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I believe the answer is:

peanut

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'a snack' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'fitness fanatic consumes a' is the wordplay.
'fitness' becomes 'pe' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'fanatic' becomes 'nut' (I've seen this before).
'consumes' is an insertion indicator.
'pe'+'nut'='penut'
'penut' enclosing 'a' is 'PEANUT'.

'little bit of' acts as a link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may be part of another bit of the clue.

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(Other definitions for peanut that I've seen before include "Ante up for this type of hard fruit" , "Edible seed, may be roasted and salted" , "It ripens in a vine pod underground" , "little bit of food" , "Eat pun for the hard fruit" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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