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www.nutrition.com.sg
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Oh my god! i found my question that i submitted to ms quek on this website while working.. they actually used it.. LOLTOPIC - Food
Question
I used buy low fat and high calcium milk to drink everyday. Recently, I started to drink fresh milk instead. I understand that the calorie content in fresh milk is much higher but I prefer the taste. I would like to ask which is nutritionally better?
Answer
Full cream (fresh) milk has a much higher fat content than the low-fat milk; it has about 4% fat while low fat milk has only half that (2%) and skim or non-fat milk has only 0.1% fat. This means that fresh milk has 60 calories more per cup (190 cal per cup) than low fat milk (130 cal per cup) and 110 cal more more than non-fat milk (80 cal per cup).
The HL milk also contains a higher amount of calcium compared to regular milk - regular milk has about 290 mg calcium per cup and high calcium milk has about 350-500 mg per cup depending on the brand. For other nutrients such as protein, vitamins and minerals, both milk contains about the same amount, thus they are nutritionally similar (except for fat & calcium).
We encourage drinking low fat milk as milk fat is mostly saturated, which can potentially clog up blood vessels in our body. The additional calories in fresh milk can also add up quickly - if you drink 2 cups of full cream milk per day, you could gain 1 extra pound in just one month.
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