Re: 1/2% milk - CA - yes

PENMART01 said:

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"Carol In WI" lactates:

I drink skim and the hubby drinks 1%, I've never heard of 1/2%. Carol In WI

Um, skim milk is 1/2% or less.

milk
Milk is available in many varieties. Whole milk is the milk just as it came
from the cow and contains about 3 1/2 percent milk fat. Lowfat milk comes in
two basic types: 2 percent , meaning 98 percent of the fat has been removed;

Nonsense. 2% milk is milk with 2% milk fat, not milk with 98% of the fat
removed.

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and 1 percent , which is 99 percent fat-free.

This use of x% fat free is really absurd although it is used commonly in
advertisements for low fat products, or supposedly low fat products. You
could advertise whole milk as 96% fat free, obviously not a low fat
product.

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"Lowfat milk comes in

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two basic types: 2 percent , meaning 98 percent of the fat has been

removed;

Nonsense. 2% milk is milk with 2% milk fat, not milk with 98% of the
fat
removed.

This use of x% fat free is really absurd although it is used commonly
in
advertisements for low fat products, or supposedly low fat products.
You
could advertise whole milk as 96% fat free, obviously not a low fat
product."
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The same tricky labeling is used with coffee. De-Caf is advertised as
97% caffeine free. Well, coffee beans are already 96 % caffeine free.
So you're saving yourself a little caffeine, but not much.
Nancree

nancree said:

The same tricky labeling is used with coffee. De-Caf is advertised

as

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97% caffeine free. Well, coffee beans are already 96 % caffeine

free.

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So you're saving yourself a little caffeine, but not much.

That's not true. Regular coffee has somewhere in the range of 100-200
milligrams of caffeine per cup (depending on brewing methods), decaf
around 5-10.

Brian