i just read on one website (www.milksucks.com) that a glass of milk is 49% fat and then i read on another website that human milk is only about 3.2% fat. i wanted to use these for an essay, but i want to make sure they're somewhere close to true first and i haven't missed something (because that is a huge different and makes me want to vomittt). if anyone knows anything about this it would be a big help!! thanks a heap.
Because when they say "4% fat" (or so) they are taking into account the water content. The higher fat content is taking into account the food content (or calorie content) of the milk only. It's a bit like taking a piece of chocolate cake at 30% fat, putting it in a blender with a heap of water, then saying the slice of cake has only 3% fat. It does if you add the water!
since a glass of milk does contain the water that always is in milk, milk has about 3.5 percent fat. If you take away the water and have a glass full of milk without water, you come up with a goo that has 40 percent. which is called cream. So actually drinking milk has 3.5
I don't have the figures handy, but it's possible than 49% of the calories in milk come from fat. The composition varies, but by volume, full cream milk usually contains ~3.5% fat.
thanks a ton! i knew milk was gross and fatty, but i thought those figures seemed a bit (or a lot) off.
