In article >,
The Cook > wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:27:54 -0600, Omelet >
> wrote:
>
> >In article >,
> > Mark Thorson > wrote:
> >
> >> The Cook wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Drink No Fat milk. You get the vitamins and minerals you need by not
> >> > the fat. Also Low or No Fat cheeses and other products.
> >>
> >> Skim milk isn't too bad, but the fake cheeses
> >> are horrible. Some of these "cheeses" do not
> >> contain dairy products. Be careful if you're
> >> relying on these products for calcium.
> >
> >A cup of yogurt has twice the calcium as a cup of milk...
>
> Don't think so. The USDA Nutrient Data Base says 1 cup of whole milk
> has 275mg of calcium and yogurt has 296mg. And slight increase. Since
> 1 quart of milk makes 1 quart of yogurt, it would be necessary to add
> additional calcium in some form to double the amount in the finished
> product. I add some dried milk when I make yogurt to increase the
> nutrition, but I doubt that the commercial ones do. And there is a no
> fat milk available that has 500mg of calcium, but that is an
> addition.
>
> http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/cgi-bin/nut_s.pl

Then somebody is not making it right...

When I made home made yogurt, I used powdered milk and doubled the
recipe, effectively doubling the calcium content.
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