Skim milk removes part of the fat in normal milk, so that the fat content is below 0.5%, which is less than 1/7 of ordinary milk. Skim milk is suitable for obese people and the elderly. Its nutritional value is the same as other dairy products, but its taste is worse.

High calcium milk

High calcium milk is fortified with some calcium on the basis of milk, and the calcium content can be increased by several times. There may be different views on whether "high calcium" and "fortified" have higher absorption rate of calcium than ordinary milk. Some people think that "eating milk is not short of calcium, vitamin D is the key", which means that there is already a lot of calcium in milk. If you are short of calcium again, you should consider whether there are factors such as vitamin D deficiency.

The fat content of whole milk is about 3%, the low-fat milk (semi-skimmed milk) contains 1.0- 1.5%, and the whole skimmed milk contains 0.5%.

In other words, if you drink a bag of 250g (243ml) of whole milk every day, you will consume 7.5g of fat. For the vast majority of consumers in well-off families, the daily intake of fat is above 75g, and the proportion of fat in milk is only 10% a day, which is not high.

How effective will it be if whole milk is replaced with low-fat milk? Compared with whole milk, it only reduces fat intake by 3.75~5.0 grams, and even if it is replaced with whole skim milk, it can only reduce 6.25 grams.

However, the fat part of milk also has many good things.

★ First of all, all flavor components exist in milk fat, and skim milk has no flavor.

Secondly, vitamins A, D, E and K in milk are all in the fat part, which plays a great role in health and disease prevention.

In addition, milk fat contains a variety of anticancer substances, especially conjugated linoleic acid.

Therefore, if the fat in milk is completely removed, its nutritional value, taste, flavor and health care function will be affected. Therefore, if there are no diseases such as hyperlipidemia and obesity, children, teenagers and young people do not have to drink skim milk.

Homemade skim milk

Ingredients: fresh milk, sugar.

Production: Take 1 cup of fresh milk (about 250 ml) and put it in the refrigerator. After rapid cooling, remove the upper layer of cream, put the remaining milk into a milk pot to boil, and remove the skin with chopsticks to get skim milk.

Skim milk and fruit soup

Raw materials: milk, fruit juice, lotus root starch.

Methods: Boil the milk, cool it and put it in the refrigerator for 8- 12 hours. Then, removing the top fat can reduce 80% of the fat in milk; Add 5 ml fruit juice to every 100 ml skim milk and mix it with washed lotus root starch to make delicious skim milk fruit soup.

Little secret of nutrition:

This skim milk and fruit soup not only tastes good, but also can promote the baby's digestive function, especially suitable for babies with diarrhea, dysentery, enteritis and indigestion. Because this practice reduces the fat content of milk, fruit juice can enhance the baby's digestive function, and lotus root starch is also digestible starch, which can make up for the heat loss caused by degreasing.