Milk or Cream?

zbluebirdz

Is cream the "concentrated" version of milk?

ml per ml, cream has 60% of the protein & carbohydrates, 10 x the fat and 6 x the energy of ordinary milk.

What about the calcium? vitamins? minerals?

What are the benefits of having cream instead of milk? And vice-versa?

muffinn

What you looking at is basically 10 times the amount of fat. The protein and carb are pretty much the same.

It looks like cream has 14 times more Vitamin A than milk. Still, you would be better of taking your vitamin A from other food as the extra fat is not worth it.

Sweet potatos are great for Vitamin A.

If you want to look at it yourself:

http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/dairy-and-egg-products/69/2 - MILK
http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/dairy-and-egg-products/51/2 - CREAM

metamorphosis

Nothing wrong at all with the fat in cream.

Cream is the bit of butterfat laft at the top of milk before its homogonized i think

Rovi

Cream is the fat content of milk. It's the lightest component of milk, so it floats to the top.

El_Dangeroso

Carb count is halved for single cream and quartered for double compared to milk.

There's also less protein and water in cream

The dairy fat is where most of the vitamins, minerals and CLA are.

zbluebirdz

El_Dangeroso wrote: »

Carb count is halved for single cream and quartered for double compared to milk.

There's also less protein and water in cream

The dairy fat is where most of the vitamins, minerals and CLA are.

That's where I became a little bit confused - thinking that higher levels of fat would equate to higher levels of vitamins & minerals. But, according to the nutritiondata website, only a few items are somewhat higher while everything else is lower (when comparing gm for gm).

I now guessing that most of the vitamins and minerals are water-soluble hence the milk getting a higher rating vs cream.

El_Dangeroso

Nutrition data doesn't give amounts for k2 specifically, and theres 10 times the k2 in cream as opposed to milk.

The CLA levels aren't on nutrition data as technically it's not a vitamin or mineral but it's still very good for you.

Also nutritiondata works off USDA nutrition figures so I'd say more than likely based on grain-fed milk as opposed to grass-fed like in Ireland and as you can see from the below diagram, time spent feeding on grass has a big influence on the nutrient payload.



A tablespoon of cream (52 cals) has less fat than a cup of milk (146 calories) so calorie for calorie, cream has more CLA.