1% milk is 18% fat???

[lpw]

Somebody please explain this to me. One serving of 1% milk has a total of 110 calories, 20 calories of which are fat. By my math, that means ~18% of the calories in my milk come from fat. So why is it called 1%????

 

[QuikFx]

by volume against weight if i am correct.. but yes for consumption purposes it is just about 20% fat calories.

 

[Mr.X]

by volume against weight if i am correct.. but yes for consumption purposes it is just about 20% fat calories.

Correct, it's 1% agains the overall weight...
I don't like milk for any purpose, dieting especially can suffer because of high dairy intake.

Mr.X

 

[snagglepuss]

by volume against weight if i am correct.. but yes for consumption purposes it is just about 20% fat calories.

I'm not sure what you mean by "volume against weight". As I understand it, volume and weight are different measurements -- the former is an indicator of space occupied, and the latter is a measure of mass. So I think you are actually mixing up two possible explanations:

(1) VOLUME (e.g., if the milk weighs 10 oz, then .1 oz is fat)

(2) WEIGHT (e.g., if the milk is 10 cubic inches, then .1 cubic inch is fat)

MrX seems to think it is weight based (2), but I am skeptical. Most liquids are measured by volume, not weight, so I would guess it's a measure of volume (1).

 

[Mr.X]

I'm not sure what you mean by "volume against weight". As I understand it, volume and weight are different measurements -- the former is an indicator of space occupied, and the latter is a measure of mass. So I think you are actually mixing up two possible explanations:

(1) VOLUME (e.g., if the milk weighs 10 oz, then .1 oz is fat)

(2) WEIGHT (e.g., if the milk is 10 cubic inches, then .1 cubic inch is fat)

MrX seems to think it is weight based (2), but I am skeptical. Most liquids are measured by volume, not weight, so I would guess it's a measure of volume (1).

To be honest w/ you, the exteneded explanation is useless. The subject at hand can understand the difference between weight and volume, but weight is a more common word. (1) is your answer, so it is based on weight percentages.

If you lookg at the overall structure, it holds a - charge, which is the factual reason for people's lactose intolorence.

Mr.X

 

[scruples]

(1) VOLUME (e.g., if the milk weighs 10 oz, then .1 oz is fat)

(2) WEIGHT (e.g., if the milk is 10 cubic inches, then .1 cubic inch is fat)

backwards

 

[anthrax]

1% : 1% = the milk "from the bottle"

18% : it is when you don't count the water in the milk

 

[anthrax]

1% : 1% = the milk "from the bottle"

18% : it is when you don't count the water in the milk

I think it is called "percent fat on a dry-matter basis"

 

[DanielBishop]

Wait, now I'm confused....

So if I drink 100mL of milk from the bottle, does that mean I've ingested 1g of fat?

 

[anthrax]

Wait, now I'm confused....

So if I drink 100mL of milk from the bottle, does that mean I've ingested 1g of fat?

yes

 

[norr]

MAYBE: 1% means there is 1 gram of fat for every 100 ml of milk, while 18% means that one serving of that 1% milk delivers 18% of what should be your daily intake of fat based on a 2000 cal/day diet, you know the "Daily Value" that's on every label.