Skimmed Milk

What's the story on the 1% milk (orange top). Are they still doing that? I use this mostly, on rice crispies and in tea/coffee. SWMBO prefers green top (2%) so we usually get one orange and two green (12 pints total).

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Tim Streater
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Homogenised (a marketing process) milk also contains it's fat in very small particles that it has been suggested can easier pass though the digestive system lining and into the bloodstream (than non homogenised, were the undigested lumps just pass through) and can have an impact on peoples cholesterol levels (cholesterol a result of an enzyme on the outside of the fat droplet eroding the inside of our blood pipework, requiring the body to produce cholesterol in an attempt to repair the damage)?

I did recently book a '60+ MOT Blood test and was interested to see my cholesterol levels since I stopped drinking cows milk a few years back ... but then Covid-19 appeared and I didn't fancy sitting round the 'packed' blood clinic all morning ... ;-(

Cheers, T i m

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T i m

I'm sure there is still skimmed out there. I wonder if its just some suppliers? I use semi skimmed myself.

Brian

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Brian Gaff (Sofa 2)

No it does not, but I've never really understood how you can semi skim something. Brian

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Brian Gaff (Sofa 2)

And depending on how we process it.

eg. If it passes though the stomach wall into the bloodstream or only some of it does and the rest being passed though untouched?

It has been suggested there are links to cultures who drink

*homogenised* cows milk versus those who don't homogenise and cholesterol levels.

But we know the dairy industry is a powerful as the oil, car and NRA.

Cheers, T i m

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T i m

It does not taste of anything at all with skimmed to my palette. Brian

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Brian Gaff (Sofa 2

Compared to proper unadulterated milk from say a Friesan, the supermarket offerings (from Holsteins) is just 'white water'.

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Andrew

Dunno. We buy green and red. Red is skimmed, green semi skimmed. I've just looked up orange and it seems to have more far that Red. I don't recall seeing it in the shops before but then I tend to 'home in' on what I know I want in the milk isle.

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Brian Reay

It is just a descriptive term for the fat content.

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Brian Reay

But Holsteins and Friesian are the same breed, just different names in different countries.

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Now if you were talking Jersey's or Guernsey's...

Reply to
Chris Hogg

At my local there was stacks of skimmed long life milk, and nothing else of the long life milk variety.

If you want fresh, there are other none dairy milks.

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Fredxx

How does that work if she asks "do I look fat in this dress?"

Reply to
ARW

It's never been the fashion in my house.

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ARW

It's "its fat" in that context.

In the case of "it's" and "its" the use of the apostrophe is confined to the contraction "it's"; which is used in place of "it is" and "it has".

HTH

michael adams

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michael adams

They both list red, blue and green flavours ...

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Andy Burns

All such tests are simply a one-off snapshot and the actual figure can vary quite a lot. You can verify this for yourself by buying a self-test meter and strips or take the word (after having first forked out for the meter and strips ) of people who've studied the topic. Google some of the text to find the link.

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Taken together, these studies demonstrate several points. First, there was substantial day-to-day variability in total cholesterol. For example, 80 percent of Mogadam's subjects had fluctuations in excess of 30 mg/dl, and 25 percent had fluctuations exceeding 50 mg/dl.

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The standard conversion to UK mmol/L units is divide by 38.6 which gives ranges of 0.7 mmol/L and 1.29 mmol/L respectively.

Most subjects would probably find an improvement or deterioration of 1.29 1.29 mmol/L on a one of test, which can affect 25% of subjects fairly significant I would imagine.

It's the same as BP basically. It's the average that matters which is why its better to self test, which in the case of BP costs nothing further after the initial outlay apart from batteries.

michael adams

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michael adams

Yes, 1% as I said.

The Yanks have had it for years, I used to buy it when I lived there 30 years ago. Here's the deal:

full fat - blue - 4% fat semi-skimmed - green - 2% low fat - orange - 1% skimmed - red - 0.1%

I tried red but it's useless in drinks or on cornflakes.

Reply to
Tim Streater

What's fashion got to do with it? I drink lower-fat milk so I can allow myself more chocolate. Simples.

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Tim Streater

In message snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com, Chris Hogg snipped-for-privacy@privacy.net writes

Beg to differ Chris. Same source as you say but the Holstein and British Friesian blood lines have been changed considerably by selective breeding.

Something similar with *Black* Angus as opposed to the Aberdeen version.

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Tim Lamb

Sainsbury's sell semi-skimmed milk which has not been homogenized, so the cream gathers at the top of the bottle. You could pour the cream away and use the resulting skimmed milk?

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Oliver

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