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Re:Whole milk compared with reduced-fat milk and childhood o... by gnicholas on Thursday January 02, 2020 @02:23PM (#21938736)
Very helpful—it is bizarre that people have no idea what whole fat milk is, and that it’s less than double 2% milk.

I wonder if the milk industry prefers people to gravitate towards reduced-fat milk because it leads to more milk consumption/revenue. If we all drank full-fat milk, we’d get full faster and therefore buy less.

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Re:Whole milk compared with reduced-fat milk and childhood o... by ksec on Thursday January 02, 2020 @04:51PM (#21940294)
Well in Japan and Korea, ( Possibly in Taiwan and China as well ) there is a trend to use and consume higher fat content milk as it is marketed as higher quality and more expensive. With Milk from 3.6% going up to 3.9%.

> to gravitate towards reduced-fat milk because it leads to more milk consumption/revenue.

I dont believe that is the case in consumption volume increase, but the Fat they reduced could be used in other products which increase their revenue.

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