16—Lancaster Farming.
Saturday, June 7.1969
Here's Your 'Fill-In'
On Imitation Milks
Despite the welter of milk
like drinks on the m.ukel the e
are lust two basic tvpes filled
milk and imitation milk Slid)
peis ;ue sometimes contus'd
about which is which and vl a
the diffeieiues aie bet” ee.i
these and ie.il niuk
Filled milk is a pioduct mad
with skim oi non l.d div milk
in which the butleilat hat beoi
lemoved and othei oils oi la'-
substitiitcd
Imitation milk is ieall\ ‘ nen
milk" with none of leal milks
components It’s made of such
ingredients as vegetable fat
often coconut oil. water sugai
or coin syrup solids, flavoung,
coloring and thickening ingie
dients, and piotem such as so
dium caseinate or soybean pro
tein
In an article, titled “When
Milk-Like Products Are Not
Milk,” Good Housekeeping
pointed out that “Filled-milk
producers often advertise ‘no
butterfat’ 01 ‘only puie vege
table oil used ’
“However. the American
Medical Association says that
filled milk using coconut oil,
the most common buttei fat sub
stitute, is not a satisfactoiy re
placement foi buttei fat in fat
modified diets Coconut oil has
a high precentage of saturated
fats and is low in polyunsatu
rated fats
“Both filled ana imitation
dairy products contain about the
same number of calories as
whole milk, but a higher pei
centage of the calories in non
dairy milk is denved from car
bohydiates and fewer from pro
tein
“The AMA warns that many
of these nondany products may
be deficient in essential nutii
ents and should not be substitut
ed for milk or other impoitant
food groups in the diet of in '
fants and children ’ I
• Dairymen's
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woik, thuft, sacnfice, disci
pline, lespect foi otheis, and a
belief in God' It can continue to
keep us gieat
Our potential production in
Amenca is so gieat that we can
never be destroyed from with
out, unless we disintegiate and
detenoiate from within
We must convince our young
men and women that the Amen
can system works Then we
must install in them the idea
that they must become leadeis
in government, leaders in poli
tics, and tireless boosters foi
perpetuation of the Amencan
philosophy of freedom and op
portumty
Boyd C Gartley
Director of
Member and Public Relations
WHAT DO FARMERS DO
WITH THEIR MONEY’
Well, heie aie some vva>s in
which they spend it annualh
• $l4 billion foi weed and
insect control chemicals.
• S 5 billion for new buildings
O SI 5 billion for gas. oil, fuel,
grease.
O SI billion foi ti actors.
O S 2 billion foi implements
and equipment.
• SI 8 billion for fertilizer
• S 5 billion livestock and poul
try feed.
And like all other folks eveij
wheie, the\ also bui clothes,
fuimtuie appliances and all the
other things people need inclin
ing food, in then local stoies
SOME THOUGHTS FOR.,.
Did you do all you could to help
promote your industry in the
past year?
Do you talk milk to consumers?
Do you explain Its many
nutritional advantages?
If you are in doubt about this
our Nutrition Department or our Dairy Specials
,«HPAStap,
ck
DAIRY FARMERS!
What else con we do to help you? Just call
MILLER
BUSHONG,
ROHRERSTOWN,
Do you set the exempli
you take your family on
meal and order milk as
beverage?
Do you have the feed in
gram which gives you tl
return per dollar spent?
last item talk to
717-392-2145