I’m looking at a container of Slim Fast powder and I’m confused…the nutrition information says the poweder itself has 65g of fat per serving, but this goes up to 80g of fat when added to an 8oz glass of fat free milk. If the milk is fat free, where is the extra fat coming from? Is fat free milk not really fat free? The nutrition label on my fat free milk container says it has 0 g of fat, so where does the fat come from?
Sixty-five grams of fat per serving? Isn’t that more than a Big Mac has?
As to how the number of grams go up when adding fat-free milk, I don’t know.
I don’t know how many grams a big mac has, but I just double checked the label and it does say 65g.
Either the label is wrong, or “g” doesn’t mean grams in the Slim-Fast universe, or you are reading it wrong somehow. According to the Slim-Fast Web site, a serving of powder has 1 gram of fat. http://medical.slim-fast.com/knf_slimfast_powders_1.asp
I guarantee you that Slim-Fast does not have 65 grams of fat per serving. A porterhouse might, or a Whopper/Big Mac, or a huge hot fudge sundae. Not Slim-Fast.
Some flavors only have 0.5 grams of fat - could you be mistaking the “0” for a 6 and not seeing the dot?
A Big Mac has 30 grams of fat according to McDonalds.com
65 GRAMS? Slim fast?
Also, fat free milk does have a percentage of butterfat in it. It’s not actually fat free.
This label is very confusing. I’ll concede that I first read the label incorrectly—the problem is that there appears to be some generic nutritional guidelines or something like that, unrelate to the contents of the container, immediately beneath the nutritional information for the SlimFast itself. The problem is, because the columns are lined up the same and the font size/face is the same, it looks like part of the same table, but it’s not.
Fine.
But I found the other part of the label where it lists the actual fat per serving. It says there are 25 calories from fat in the Shake Mix, and 30 calories from fat with an 8 oz Fat Free Milk. So I still have the same question—where is the extra fat coming from? Or do I not understand what “calories from fat” really means?
The percentage of daily value remains the same at 5% regardless of whether or not the milk is used, though with milk the saturated fat % increases from 3 to 4.
As my label reading skills have now been proven to be quite poor, does anyone out there have access to a can of this stuff to see what I’m talking about?
For something to be considered “fat free” it needs to have less than .5 grams of fat in it, not zero (according to FDA standards, I beleive). So, while many things are called “fat free” they can still have a minimal amount of fat in them, hence the extra calories from fat.
There’s your answer right here. The difference in calories from fat is 5. That is roughly half a gram of fat(a little over). I would say that 200grams of fat free milk(you didn’t mention an amount) can contain 0.5grams of fat and still be considered fat free.
It’s an 8 oz glass of milk I believe; the milk container says there are 0g of fat. Are they allowed to round down to zero if there are .5 g?
My Slim-Fast shakes in cans have 5g of fat per serving.
That’s so strange - the Web site has no shakes in cans with 5 grams of fat.
http://medical.slim-fast.com/knf_slimfast_ready.asp
It’s weird that the cans and the site don’t match.
You might save a bundle of money if you just mixed a packet of Carnation Instant Breakfast instead of using SlimFast with your fat free milk.
I don’t have an answer if they are allowed to round down to zero, but I’m willing to bet $1 that SlimFast is required to round up (i.e. assume a maximum of 0.5g of fat in fat free milk and print that) as opposed to finding the best “Fat Free” milk that makes their own label look better.
For another POV, I have some Slim-Fast Optima drink mix that my husband is currently using. The ‘Optima’ on the label is starred, with the star referencing down to the quote, “45% less sugar” and “Each serving of shake mix contains 10g of sugar. Our French Vanilla Ultra Powder Mix contains 19g of sugar.”
The fat content is as follows:
3.5 grams alone, 4 grams with skim milk
saturated fat, .5 mix alone, 1 gram with milk
trans fat, zero for both
polyunsaturated, zero for both
monounsturated, 3 grams mix alone, 3 grams with milk
That’s all right off the label.
It’s a Slim-Fast Optima shake:
http://www.slim-fast.com/products/product_info.asp?product_id=695
That seems to be all I can ever find around here any more.