How Many Fat (%) Does This Milk Have? (Image Included)

[retoocs01]

This milk is advertised as "low fat" milk.

Can somebody translate the label and explain, how to determine the fat-level in %?

I don't really understand this...

thanks in advance

Edited January 29, 2013 by retoocs01

[rice555]

Hello All, I thought they used the same color code as back home.

white/clear-Non fat 0%

Lt. blue 1-2%

Dk. blue regular (not like unenriched like Meiji gold carton - 4.3%)

rice555

[tw25rw]

I think it's the 6% toward the top.

[webworldly]

Hey retoocs01.....the milk in the pic you posted is 2% fat. You can think of it this way: out of every 100 units of milk, 2 of those units are fat, thus it's "2%". Since the serving size in your pic is 200g, or 2 x 100g.....you would expect a "2 x 100g" serving of 2% milk to have "2 x 2g"....or 4g.....of fat, which is indeed what it has according to your pic.

Then again, I may only be 2% right. :-)

CHEERS!

D

[retoocs01]

the milk in the pic you posted is 2% fat. You can think of it this way:

out of every 100 units of milk, 2 of those units are fat, thus it's "2%"

Hmm, from which part of the image, do you read that?

PS: The picture is taken from a 2l bottle

The upper part:

is always the same on every bottle, independant from the fat percentage.

I think, the interesting part is this:

Anyway....why do they make it so complicated again?

Edited February 23, 2013 by retoocs01

[webworldly]

the milk in the pic you posted is 2% fat. You can think of it this way:

out of every 100 units of milk, 2 of those units are fat, thus it's "2%"

Hmm, from which part of the image, do you read that?

PS: The picture is taken from a 2l bottle

The upper part:

milk2.jpg

is always the same on every bottle, independant from the fat percentage.

I think, the interesting part is this:

milk3.jpg

Anyway....why do they make it so complicated again?

Hey retoocs01.....in regards to determining the "% fat" of any food or drink product that has a label whose format is similar to the one for the milk that we're discussing here, there are two critical data points.........and indeed you identified both of them. Cool!

The first data point we need is the serving size, and we can find that in the image you called "the upper part". Without focusing on how to read Thai, there are three Arabic numbers in that image......1, 200, 10. The "200" denotes the serving size (the "1" also tells us serving size, but it's measured in a way that is less useful for our purpose), and the "10" represents the number of servings in the bottle. We can double-check this since we know that the entire contents of the bottle is 2 liters.....and there are 10 servings in the bottle......we can calculate that each serving is 200 ml, or approximately 200 grams. That matches up with the "200" in the image, so I think we are on the right track.

The second data point we need is the total amount of fat per serving, which we find in the image you called "the interesting part". In this image there are four Arabic numbers.....4, 6%, 2.5, 12%. The "4" is total grams of fat, the 6% is the % of the Thai Food And Drug Administration's Daily Allowance for Total Fat, the 2.5 is the amount of saturated fat, and the 12% is the % of the Thai FDA's allowance for saturated fat.

So.....there are 4 grams of total fat per 200ml serving............or we could say 4 units out of 200 units is fat......or put in terms of a percentage, 2% of each serving is fat.....or to directly answer your original question, it's "2% milk". As for the total amount of fat in the bottle, we get that from multiplying the number of servings in the bottle (10) by the total fat per serving (4 grams).....which equals 40 grams of fat. We can do the same math for total saturated fat in the bottle (10 x 2.5 grams = 25 grams).

I often suck at explaining stuff, but I genuinely hope this helps.......and I totally agree with you that food nutrition labels in many countries do little or nothing to help us make better, more healthful, or even just more informed choices.

CHEERS!

D

[retoocs01]

@webworldly

Thank you very much for this detailed explanation.

Everything understood

Just print 2% fat on the food nutrition label, but that seems be "too easy...."

Edited February 26, 2013 by retoocs01

[tw25rw]

I see the word ไขมัน meaning fat, so I read it as 6%. Does seem an awful lot though.

Edited February 26, 2013 by tw25rw

[longball53098]

This is a label from a bottle from a 830 ml bottle of Dutch Mill 2% low fat

[cheeryble]

I used to buy the light blue label.

I now dilute dark blue 50/50 with water and am totally used to it at half the price.

BTW if you're concerned about cholesterol dietary fat has very little influence on serum cholesterol.

[Gangnamstein]

2% fat...and 12gm sugar (about 2 tsp).