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Re:Whole milk compared with reduced-fat milk and childhood o... by ksec on Thursday January 02, 2020 @04:47PM (#21940248)
Want to add a few things.

>"whole milk" is only 3.25% milkfat

It is only in Canada and US whole milk is 3.25%. In UK, and I believe EU as well it is 3.5%.

>whole milk is a miniscule increase in the total amount of milkfat consumed.

This causes my brain to explode for a bit. A 2% to 3.25% is 62.5% increase in total amount of milk fat. Which is not really minuscule increase. At the same time I totally understand what you meant.

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Re:Whole milk compared with reduced-fat milk and childhood o... by falcolas on Thursday January 02, 2020 @07:00PM (#21941403)
It’s an increase of 1.25% of milkfat across the entire product. It’s one half a teaspoon more milkfat in an 8 oz glass of milk.

As a point of comparison with another milky product - the flavored latte - flavor shots are 1/2 an oz (2.5 tsp) each, and two are added to an 8oz latte.

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