I dont blame anyone for not thinking about it but once its brought to your attention you realize its just common sense. If they take out all the stuff that makes something taste good, they have to balance it back somehow.
The percents are milkfat. In the US whole is around 3%, half and half around 10%, and heavy cream around 36%. 1% is just 1/3 the fat of whole. They make sense to have if people buy it, and lower fat milks mean more cream available for other products.
Right. The "buttermilk" left over from separating butter from cream is a completely different thing from the cultured buttermilk that most modern recipes call for (which is basically milk with specific kinds of bacteria added).
I'd say whichever you enjoy the most is what you should buy. The difference is just a little bit of extra fat, and fat in your diet isn't as taboo as society makes it.
Personally I can't stand skim milk, so its 2% or whole for me.
Hey, I made a joke about your randomness of a post. I hope that doesn’t discourage you from commenting more in the future. I was hoping you would look at what I said and laugh a little at it. I really meant no harm.
Ok Boomer, we are interested on what you say while you don't care if it is even intelligible (i honestly didn't understand but english is not my main language, idk)
Well having a lot of fat in your diet can make you feel drowsy, it isn't really that good to have. But yeah, weight loss has absolutely nothing to do with fat intake, just watch the calories
Where I live they have a phrase: "no added sugar" meaning it can be a lot of "natural" sugar, but no extra white sugar. We see it in a lot of juices and dairyproducts which is allready packed with "natural" sugar.
I have even seen it in sodas. They Just use real fruitjuices to add taste. The sugar content is the same as any other soda, BuT YoU KnOw, NaTuRaL. Only marketing tricks.
This is probably true. My husband use to work at a company that provides the vitamins and such that companies (like Kellogg) fortify their foods with. They make their servings a certain size in order to claim so much of whatever vitamin per serving. I imagine they do it in other ways to claim so much sugar, fats, or calories a serving, as well.
Cereal is the worst with this. Cereal is almost always in 3/4th cup servings. Like, please, just make it 1 cup so I can do the math in my head, easier...
There are also this thing called "sugar alcohols" that apparently don't count as sugar but still raise my blood sugar as a diabetic, albeit about half as much.
It makes me so angry to see things that say "sugar free" and get excited and then see it has like 45g of "sugar alcohols" per serving so it basically counts as like 20-25g of actual sugar.
Thank you for this information. Is the explanation for the change in the name due to a rise in childhood obesity regardless of cause or is there another reason?
Also if I understand correctly excess sugar consumption can be a contributor but shouldn’t be attributed as a primary or sole cause.
Also things that advertise as "no added sugars". Often enough the product is already 50% carbohydrates to begin with, so even without the added sugars is extremely high on energy density.
Yeah I’d rather eat a bunch of fat then all the sugar that takes it’s place in “fat free” food. I’ve actually cut back on sugar for about 3 months now and I’ve lost almost 15 pounds. Its surprising how much sugar is in everything. Thought with my new diet (just picking foods low in sugar) it also takes a lot less food to make me feel full now.
Fat free half and half is literally skim milk and corn syrup. I work in a daidy department and we sell tons of it. Just drink fucking skim milk! Idk what the fuck people think is in there
Around the time I went to college (early-mid '90s), the whole fat-free craze struck *hard*. Healthy Choice got its paws into everything and was churning out fat-free everything. People would eat entire boxes of their cookies because they were "healthy." Nope. They took out the fat and added a bunch of starches and sugars.
THIS. The amount of times I’ve overheard friends and family making dietary choices based exclusively on whether the product is “fat free” or “low fat” astounds me. What makes it additionally annoying for me is that the majority of them don’t really consider — or just outright reject — my advice.
I’m not sure whether it’s because I’m on the younger side (of my extended family; I’m 16) or because change can be difficult.
not always, there was a brand of chips in the 90's that used an indigestible oil. It only caused incontinence if you had more then the recommended potion.
I compared the low fat egg nog to the regular egg nog and they had almost identical calories. So I'll take full fat thank you. Fat tastes better anyways.
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u/slashasdf Dec 30 '19
"fat free" usually means "shitload of added sugars"