"James Silverton" wrote:
>
> I use fat-free milk that I buy at my Giant supermarket. They usually have
> both skim and fat-free milk and the other day there was only skim milk on
> display. Since the fat content was zero, I bought that. I could not tell
> any difference from fat-free and I wonder if there *is* a difference.

milk is the milk just as it came from the cow and contains about 3 1/2
percent milk fat. Lowfat milk comes in two basic types: 2 percent , meaning
98 percent of the fat has been removed; and 1 percent , which is 99 percent
fat-free. A few lowfat milks contain only 1/2 percent milk fat but they're
not widely available. Nonfat or skim milk must by law contain less than 1/2
percent milk fat.
© Copyright Barron's Educational Services, Inc. 1995 based on THE FOOD
LOVER'S COMPANION, 2nd edition, by Sharon Tyler Herbst.