Whole Milk vs Milk Powder: What Should You Choose?

Less Calories in Whole milk

At first glance, you can see that in whole milk is much less calories than in milk powder.

Whole milk has 61 kcal per 100g and milk powder 496 kcal per 100g so it is pretty easy to calculate that the difference is about 713%.

In whole milk and in milk powder most calories came from fat.

See tables below to compare whole milk with milk powder in details.

Whole milk And Milk powder Nutrition Difference

• Calories:
  milk powder - 713% more than whole milk
• Carbohydrates:
  milk powder - 761% more than whole milk
• Fat:
  milk powder - 672% more than whole milk
• Protein:
  milk powder - 749% more than whole milk
• Water:
  whole milk - 3471% more than milk powder

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Less protein in whole milk

It is aslo easy to see see that in whole milk is less protein than in milk powder.

There is 26.32g per 100g of milk powder and 3.1g per 100g of whole milk so using simple math we can see that difference is about 749%.

Less carbohydrates in whole milk

In whole milk is less carbohydrates than in milk powder.

There is 38.42g/100g of carbohydrates in milk powder and 4.46g/100g in whole milk so let me do the math for you again - difference is about 761%.

Less fat in whole milk

In whole milk is less fats than in milk powder.

The tables above show us that there is 26.71g/100g of fats in milk powder and 3.46g/100g in whole milk. In this case difference is about 672%.