You probably are right Steve. I am very surprised by the number of products
that list "whey". By extension, I assumed that "skim milk powders" or
similar probably could be whey with a different label. Perhaps I had no
logical basis to make such a jump. Anyway, I don't knowingly eat things
with skim milk powder.

Yesterday I had an interesting experience in a restaurant of perhaps the
most famous hotel in Canada - the Chateau Lake Louise in Banff National
Park. I asked the waitress to help me select foods with no dairy. Well, she
assured me that the battered Onion Rings had no dairy but she would check.
A few minutes later they arrived and I started eating my hors d'oeuvre.
About 3 minutes later she hustles over to my table and suggests that maybe
I should stop eating the onion rings. The chef had checked again and the
batter contained 1/8 cream or milk! In a moment of false bravado, I decided
to press ahead. It's now 30 hours later with no signs of any real problems.
Sometimes we do what we got to do (or shouldn't do) <g>.

Don M

At 11:12 PM 1/25/2001 -0500, you wrote:
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>I don't think so, Don. Skim milk powder should be milk, minus the fat and the
>water only. You'll get the complete complement of milk proteins in it.