Skimmed Milk is made when all the milkfat is removed from whole milk. it tends to contain around 0.1%fat. In the UK, milk is sometimes still delivered on the doorsteps by a milkman in the early hours of the morning in glass pint bottles with colour printed foil lid indicating the milkfat content. wholemilk had plain silver foil, semi-skimmed milk had silver foil with red stripes and skimmed milk silver foil with a blue checker pattern. United States milk producers also use a color-coding system to identify milk types, Usually with the bottle cap or colored accents on the packaging. Whole milk is often denoted by red, While 2% is most often colored blue. 1% and skim colors vary by rigion or dairy, with common colors for these lines being purple , green, yellow, pink, or light blue.
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