# Sweetened condensed milk — What a food must legally contain to use its name: FDA standards of identity, in one table

For Sweetened condensed milk, cfr section is 21 CFR 131.120; category (cfr part) is Milk and Cream; composition requirements is The finished food contains not less than 8 percent by weight of milkfat, and not less than 28 percent by weight of total milk solids, recorded from its source on 2026-08-11.

- **CFR section:** 21 CFR 131.120 _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Standardized food:** Sweetened condensed milk _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Category (CFR part):** Milk and Cream _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Composition requirements:** The finished food contains not less than 8 percent by weight of milkfat, and not less than 28 percent by weight of total milk solids. _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> § 131.120 Sweetened condensed milk. ( a ) Description. Sweetened condensed milk is the food obtained by partial removal of water only from a mixture of milk and safe and suitable nutritive carbohydrate sweeteners. The finished food contains not less than 8 percent by weight of milkfat, and not less than 28 percent by weight of total milk solids.

## Source

- https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/chapter-I/subchapter-B/part-131

Last verified: 2026-08-11. Review by: 2027-08-11.
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