Skimmed Milk

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

Brian

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

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

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

Cheers, T i m

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

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

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.

It is just a descriptive term for the fat content.

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

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.

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

It's never been the fashion in my house.

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

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.

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.

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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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.

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

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.

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?

I think I saw that the manufacture of skimmed milk would be stopped - so you might have problems finding it anywhere.

Mixing skimmed and full-fat would be a lot of hard work, and would mean keeping two old milk bottles (or one of twice the size) to mix the full-fat and skimmed into - but it's a good bit of lateral thinking ;-)