skim milk

/'skim'milk/

Thân thiện

A child pours a glass of skim milk at the breakfast table.

Definition

Noun: Milk from which the cream has been removed.

Usage

Skim milk is a type of milk with a very low fat content. It is produced by separating and removing the cream (the fatty layer) from whole milk. This process is called skimming.

Examples

• For a healthier diet, she switched from whole milk to .
• This recipe calls for to reduce the calorie count.
• is often fortified with vitamins A and D.

Advanced Usage

• "to skim milk": This is the verb phrase describing the process of removing cream from milk to produce skim milk.
  • The dairy farm uses a centrifuge to skim milk efficiently.

Variants and Related Words

• Skimmed milk (n): A synonym for , more commonly used in British English.
  • In the UK, you would typically ask for skimmed milk.
• Nonfat milk (n): Another common synonym, especially in nutritional labeling.
• Whole milk (n): Milk from which no fat has been removed; the opposite of skim milk.
• Low-fat milk (n): Milk with some, but not all, of the cream removed; it has a fat content between whole and skim milk.

Synonyms

• Nonfat milk
• Fat-free milk
• Skimmed milk

Antonyms

• Whole milk
• Full-cream milk

Học thuật

Noun

1. milk from which the cream has been skimmed

Từ đồng nghĩa

• skimmed milk