Great Value 2% Reduced Fat Milk, 1 Gallon — MUNCH
Munch or Dump rates Great Value 2% Reduced Fat Milk, 1 Gallon by Great Value MUNCH — score 90/90.
Three ingredients: milk plus the two vitamins the law says go back in after skimming fat. Nothing engineered, nothing hidden. This is what a clean label looks like.
Why this verdict
- Single whole-food base — reduced fat milk is the entire product
- Vitamin A palmitate and D3 are standard fortification, not additives of concern — A is added back because it leaves with the skimmed fat
- Zero added sugar, zero emulsifiers, zero stabilizers — the sugar on the panel is naturally occurring lactose
- 8g complete protein and ~30% daily calcium per cup at low cost
Ingredients (3)
- REDUCED FAT MILK (safe) — Real dairy; supplies about 9g protein and calcium per bottle.
- Vitamin A palmitate (safe) — Vitamin fortification.
- vitamin D3 (safe) — Standard US fortification since the 1930s; helps calcium absorption and covers a common deficiency.