Skimmed milk

Midnight Sundance

I stand to be corrected and knowing me I'm probably wrong but I think skimmed milk has more calcium than semi or full fat.
It tastes horrible at first but you get used to it.

Jester252

Deleted User wrote: »

There's no water added to semi skimmed or skimmed milk. They have less cream.

And no Vitamin A.

Annasopra

Is skimmed milk not a British thing. They sell low fat milk here.

Nah, they sell a lot of skimmed milk here too. It's usually the pink one. It's fairly pointless imo, may aswell just have extra water in your tea!

Annasopra

Whats the difference between skimmed and low fat then?

Skimmed milk is 0% fat (I think) as in they remove all the cream. Low fat is 1 or 2% fat, some cream is removed.

Tiddlypeeps

mango salsa wrote: »

Whats the difference between skimmed and low fat then?

Just different fat percentages. Full fat has between 3.5% and 4% fat. Skimmed or the pink cartons here usually have 1% or less. What we would call low fat typically lies somewhere in between, 2% being the most common I've seen.

They don't just add water to reduce the fat level. I have no idea how they remove the fat but I know they don't just add water because 100ml of each contains the same amount of protein but just has less fat and therefore less calories.

The difference in calories is pretty minor tho, you will only see a significant reduction in fat/calorie intake if you drink litres of milk a day. I used to find it funny when I would see some women in an office I used to work in bringing in their own 1% milk to have with their tea throughout the day rather than drinking the full fat provided. The amount of calories you would shave by using 1% instead of full fat in about 3/4 cups of tea is tiny.

Rabies

brummytom wrote: »

My nan used to call skimmed milk 'Bull's Milk'. Horrible stuff.

You might want to have a think about that a bit more

Annasopra

Ok well then whats the difference between low fat and semi skimmed?

Low fat is semi skimmed - same thing

Jester252

Skimmed milk also has none of the fat soluble vitamins that whole milk provides. What I find funny is that before skimmed milk was sold to humans as a zero fat replacement to whole milk, it was sold to farmers as a fatting agent for pigs.

Carawaystick

Tiddlypeeps wrote: »

They don't just add water to reduce the fat level. I have no idea how they remove the fat

They skim it off :rolleyes:

wolfpawnat

Full fat only. Fúck the size 6 stick figure, I rather a good proper milk! It may not be made with added water, but it bloody tastes like it!

Fratton Fred

They put the milk in a big tank, the fat floats to the surface which they skim off and use for butter, cheese etc.

They then sell the skimmed milk for more, which has to be a con.

Beefy78

Fratton Fred wrote: »

They then sell the skimmed milk for more, which has to be a con.

You're shopping in the wrong place. Tesco sell skimmed (well, the pink stuff) for 85c a litre which is cheaper than their other milk.

Of course, it's probably horses milk...

B0jangles

I love a big icy-cold glass of skimmed milk straight from the fridge - it's so refreshing

Full fat is too thick and heavy-tasting IMO.

Capt'n Midnight

Latchy wrote: »

Less calories in skimmed milk but it's semi - skimmed I use

if you are adding it to tea or coffee you are likely to add more of it to get the colour you are used to

so I'd argue that you could be getting more calories

Lucyfur

I only use skimmed milk. Fat milk is yuck. It's chewy

Fratton Fred

Beefy78 wrote: »

You're shopping in the wrong place. Tesco sell skimmed (well, the pink stuff) for 85c a litre which is cheaper than their other milk.

Of course, it's probably horses milk...

I stand corrected then. I was going by semi skimmed prices.

Capt'n Midnight

Fratton Fred wrote: »

They put the milk in a big tank, the fat floats to the surface which they skim off and use for butter, cheese etc.

They then sell the skimmed milk for more, which has to be a con.

In the past the cream was most valuable bit but not anymore with the advent of things like palm oil

nowadays the cream is centrifuged from the remaining skimmed milk and the two streams don't cross , until near the "bottling" or cheese ("Blessed are the cheese makers")

the protein in the skimmed milk is worth more than the fat nowadays, it's the non-specific "non-fat milk solids" you see on labels on lots of stuff


oddly enough human milk is low in fat and high in sugars so it might taste more like skimmed milk ?

Fratton Fred

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

In the past the cream was most valuable bit but not anymore with the advent of things like palm oil

nowadays the cream is centrifuged from the remaining skimmed milk and the two streams don't cross , until near the "bottling" or cheese ("Blessed are the cheese makers")

the protein in the skimmed milk is worth more than the fat nowadays, it's the non-specific "non-fat milk solids" you see on labels on lots of stuff


oddly enough human milk is low in fat and high in sugars so it might taste more like skimmed milk ?

I didn't want to get too technical. I've been to a milk processing plant, fascinating place. The amount of milk produced in this country is amazing.

Very popular in China apparently.

danslevent

Beefy78 wrote: »

You're shopping in the wrong place. Tesco sell skimmed (well, the pink stuff) for 85c a litre which is cheaper than their other milk.

Of course, it's probably horses milk...

I think it's 75c B-) Even cheaper!