Skim milk is actaully "imitation milk product" unless you put in additives, court rules.

[Glassunion]

So when you milk a cow, you get milk. You remove some fat and you get 2% milk, more fat and you get 1% milk, all the fat and you get "Imitation Milk Product" or a “Non-Grade ‘A’ Milk Product, Natural Milk Vitamins Removed.”

I say we should call it Milky McMilkFace.

https://consumerist.com/2016/03/31/court-agrees-with-florida-skim-milk-is-imitation-milk-product-unless-you-add-vitamins/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link

[SheilaT]

1. I recall reading years ago,

as in about thirty years ago, that even though there was calcium in skim milk, your body couldn't absorb it without at least some fat present. So if you drink skim milk thinking you're getting the calcium you need, you probably aren't.

I did switch from whole milk to 2% some years ago, and tried 1% but that was just yucky. I simply gradually stopped drinking milk as I got older, and I use half and half in my coffee, and use that for milk when called for in a recipe.

[killbotfactory]

2. Whole milk is less than 4% fat.

Unless you are drinking three glasses a day, I really don't know why anyone bothers with anything else.

[ChickenGuru]

4. Sure, if you only drink Holstein.

Try some Jersey milk. It'll knock your socks off.
Makes good ice cream too.

[WhiteTara]

3. In order for it to be white they add

bluing!

[TexasProgresive]

5. That sounds strange to me

Back when family farms were family small dairies would operate cream separators because that's what was wanted. out of one spout came the rich cream out of the other came "blue milk" that was fed to the hogs.

http://www.answers.com/Q/Why_is_skim_milk_blue
Skim milk appears slightly blue because casein micelles (the casein content of milk which represents about 80 % of milk proteins) scatter the shorter wavelengths of visible light (blue) more than the red. The fat in milk which makes it appear white is missing in skim milk.

[NickB79]

6. Titanium dioxide, actually

We use that in the dairy plant I work in.

Also used in vinyl siding!

[WhiteTara]

7. Thanks for that update!

I don't drink much milk and only whole milk...what do they put in that?

[Odin2005]

8. Skim Milk is disgusting.

An unhealthy product of the BS "fat bad carbs good" dogma.