Four Types of Cream

Sainsbury's: An Aladdin's Cave of Excellent Mad Foods, Conveniently Located

I have noticed that there are at least four forms of cream, all of which are probably acceptable as part of ex150ish-type mad diets.

Single cream https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/cream/sainsburys-single-cream-300ml

Double cream https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/sainsburys-double-cream-300ml

Crème fraîche https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/sainsburys-british-creme-fraiche-300ml

Soured cream https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/cream/sainsburys-soured-cream-300ml

I am not shilling for Big Sainsbury's here, promise.

It is just that they are my local supermarket so it is easy to buy supplies on the way home and they have a nice website which actually works and which provides nutritional breakdowns in a standard form.

If I come home the other way I get equivalent things from Waitrose...

Have I mentioned how convenient and pleasant Sainsbury's is? How their robots just kind of work, and their staff are so pleasant and friendly, and their layouts stay the same so that it's easy to find things, and how they don't play fucking filthy canned fucking pop fucking music at you or fucking rant fucking on over fucking tannoys fuck about how fucking great they are while you're trying to fucking remember what you fucking came for, unlike the fucking dreadful Co-Op which can fucking die, die, die as far as I'm fucking concerned.

Well, all that is also true of Waitrose! Except the robots are even better.

Anyway, nutritional breakdowns (all kcal / g per 100g, as is the right way to do it. Jesus "grams per 13oz", seriously America?)

kcal fat sat/mono/poly carbs/sugars protein

Single cream 194 19.1 12.2/5.1/0.6 2.2/2.2 3.3

Double cream 467 50.5 31.4/13/1.8 1.6/1.6 1.5

Soured cream 187 18.0 11.2/5.2/0.5 1.1/1.1 0.8

Crème fraîche 277 28.7 17.1/8.8/1.6 2.6/2.1 1.9

All of these have the single ingredient "milk"

Looks to me like Double Cream is Single Cream concentrated to have loads of fat in it, with the lactose and protein bit skimmed off. This is the good stuff!

Soured Cream is basically Single Cream that's gone off, bacterias ate some of the stuff

Crème Fraîche is sort of a mix of Single and Double Cream that's gone off.

As I remember, double cream tastes marvellous when you're hungry, but at the moment it just tastes a bit flat and uninteresting.

I suspect I'm actually not too calorie-desiring at the moment. Which is consistent with me not having much of an appetite, but does make me wonder even harder why my weight's not dropping as much as usual.

Single cream just seems like a not-terribly cost-effective version of double cream, with a bit more in the carbs and protein department. No reason to buy it if double cream is available.

And soured cream and crème fraîche are both solid, need to be eaten with a spoon, and both currently taste utterly delightful to me. I think it's the acidity (the bacterias have turned some of the good stuff into acid, bless them).

Next version of ex150ish I’m just going to mix these up as seems tastiest, and I don’t expect that to make any difference at all…….