MILK v. ICE CREAM
Reply by Dr. Muriel Bell
Association take exception to the figures which I have used in calculating the nutritional value of 3d. worth of ice-cream (20z.) and comparing it with 3d. worth:of milk (1 pint, 568 c.c,). The figures which I used were those of the U.S.A. National Research Council (1943), compiled by the many eminent nutritionists who constitute the U.S.A. Food and Nutrition Board. The figures which I used are very similar to the figures given by Winton and Winton, whose book is quoted by the Ice-Cream Manufacturers’ Association. Here are the amounts given by these two authoritative sources, for 3¥20z. (of 100 grams) of ice-cream. A slide rule, accurately used, will soon bring the calculations to the figures which I quoted for 20z. ice-cream: Composition of Ice-Cream -Per 100 Grams Winton (1937), Vol. National Research 111, "Tas Ice-Cream Manufacturers’ Council, U.S.A. (1945) Protein . . . 2.4 grams 4.0 2 eae Se YS 12.3 Sug ‘ew ¥ 80.2 20.8 Calories .. . 198. 210 (calculated ) Calcium ...- 132 milligrams
Vitamin A... — ‘540 International ; Units _ .04 milligrams Riboflavin _o-_- .19 milligrams Niacin ....- -1 milligram Naturally, it makes something of a difference if the sign for microgtam, which is one thousandth of a milligram, is mistaken for a milligram. I can find no other explanation for the claim that 20z. of ice-cream contains 134 milligrams of riboflavin or 36 milligrams of vitamin "B." I can state categorically that their figures are fantastic, because no food contains as much as this. As to the accusation that I had used 4.5 per cent. as the fat content of milk, I had actually again used the American figures, namely, 3.9 per cent. fat. This is actually belittling our average New Zealand milk, because I am told by the Milk Marketing Division that the average figure for the fat content of New Zealand milk for the past year has been 4.1 per cent. I have therefore erred on the side of generosity to the ice-cream! Though the figures given may differ slightly in some respects from one set of samples to another-or even in the 1943 edition of the National Research Council’s list compared with the 1945 edition-the comparison of ice cream with milk as a food for children as given in my original article holds good. --
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 389, 6 December 1946, Page 22
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