Milk - Skimmed Or Semi Skimmed?

[Eve]

I was chatting to someone the other day who said that skimmed milk is a bit of a con as, although it is lower in fat than semi-skimmed milk, they ramp up the sugar content to make it taste better.

I was checking a few labels earlier and seems they are right about the figures though which, if either, is actually better for you?

[tonyav]

Didn't relies that, Eve Jenna and we always use skimmed milk in our house.

[gingejbee]

Full-fat for me....or nothing.

[carrust]

Semi skimmed in our house. Skimmed is for wooses:-)

[sara3]

skimmed, thank you carrust!!!!

[tonyav]

WOT ^^^^^^^.

[tonyav]

That was for carrust.

[2sp_]

I'm with you, gingejbee. Full fat milk only in this house. Anyway, 4% fat is not horrific.

I do miss having our own dairy, nothing beats fresh non-messed with milk.

[Iluvspikey]

skimmed

[coccinelle]

Actually all milk at the dairy starts off skimmed and then the fat is added to produce full fat, semi-skimmed and skimmed. So when you look on the side of the bottle at what the milk contains out of 100ml, you're going to get more glucose in skimmed milk than in full fat, if not it would be just water!!!!
I just drink skimmed as I eat a low fat diet but maybe someone who is watching their glucose intake would go for full fat. Mind you this is natural sugar not added sugar as the poster seems to sumise.

[vodkancoke]

It's only ever UHT skimmed for me.

[Eve]

I am usually skimmed, though been on lactofree recently,

How come UHT vodka?

[marje]

Apparently skimmed milk has more calcium than the others. Only skimmed for me and even that tastes creamy to me.

[woofgang]

I don't think (although i stand ready to be corrected) that all milk is skimmed at the dairy and then the fat is put back. The reason that there is more sugar in skimmed milk than whole milk or semi skimmed is because skimming reduces the total volume of the milk, NOT because "they" add more sugar.
for example, lets say that in 10 fluid ounces of whole milk, there is one fluid ounce of fat and one fluid ounce of sugar. If you remove the fat, you end up with nine fluid ounces of liquid. In order to get back to your ten fluid ounces, you have to add more skimmed milk containing its sugar and that additional one fluid ounce will contain 0.1 fluid ounces of sugar so the total amount of sugar in 10 fluid ounces of skimmed milk will be 1.1 ounces.
Of course the figures aren't that easy and rounded, I just chose them to make the example easy to follow cos it took me 3 tries before I got it!

[FredPuli43]

Yes 2sp,nothing beats raw milk from the dairy.l don't think people realise that full fat milk is nothing of the kind; that is, it's not as the milk came fresh from the cow. Anyone who is used to raw milk from a Jersey herd knows that, at peak times, there is as much cream as there is milk in it. But modern dairies homogenise the milk; you can't tell what cream there is in it.

And I have full fat. Can't see the point of the others.

[vodkancoke]

I prefer the taste of it Eve. Mum has always bought it and I have just follwed lol

[Eve]

Ahh, I buy the longer life milk sometimes for work for it to last longer :)

That makes far more sense Woofgang, thanks.

I can't remember the last time I had any full fat milk - maybe in Starbucks when they had run out of the other milk (think it was full fat?). I do remember going to see how butter used to be made in the olden days though at an old fashioned working farm near where I grew up - we got to taste the buttermilk, urghhhh....

[2sp_]

We had Ayrshire cows, Fred. Not quite as creamy as Jerseys but not far off.

Oh, how I miss them!

[Purple_Popple]

Semi skimmed for me, although I used to adore that sterilised milk - had it quite a lot when I was younger. Yum!

[marval]

Semi skimmed for me

[Maydup]

Skimmed for me, full fat is only for babies surely?