Q8 - Non-dairy coffee lighteners

[agersh144]

Can someone please explain how "fat in food" is relevant to coffee lighteners which are clearly a non-food product? I choose E by POE but I can see now that it's not correct and doesn't resolve the discrepency and how B potentially could if it said "fat in drink products" or "fat in non-food products" but it seems to be conspiciously out of scope if it refers to a coffee lightener as a food product which is the oldest trick in the book on the LSAT -- the good old' equivocation trap (i.e. the famous PT4 rolling pins are not the same as utensils question as case and point)

[ManhattanPrepLSAT1]

I get it. But yet there's still no reason to miss this question. A couple of things...

First, the LSAC took over the responsibilities for writing the LSAT in 1991 starting with PT1. This is only PT3, they hadn't had very much time to get their language straight--they're much better today than they were back then.

Second, the question doesn't ask for a supported inference like the "rolling pin" question (PT4, S1, Q22), but asks for an answer choice that most helps to explain the apparent discrepancy. For Must be True questions, we need to look out for answer choices that are not quite supported. But for Strengthen, Weaken, and Explain questions, the bar is much lower--it only needs to "help" explain.

Answer choice (B) helps to explain because it shows how non-dairy lighteners can raise cholesterol.

Incorrect Answers
(A) warns about saturated fat, but doesn't give us the reason why. This doesn't show non-dairy lighteners could raise cholesterol.
(C) is out of scope. The stimulus is about non-dairy lighteners, not light cream.
(D) is out scope. The stimulus is about non-dairy lighteners made from coconut oil.
(E) is great, but how do these cholesterol free products raise one's cholesterol.