Wiki: Milk Products

This Wiki Article discusses common cow milk derived products such as butter, cream, half & half, semi-skimmed milk etc and their butterfat %’s. It is divided into the following sections:

• General
• Cow’s Milk Product’s, Fat Amounts – USA
• Cow’s Milk Product’s, Fat Amounts – UK

General

Milk is made into a wide range of dairy products, the following is a listing of some of these and their butterfat contents.

The listing is meant primarily as a reference to the cheese maker who uses store bought manufactured cow’s milk products rather than raw cow’s milk to make cheese. Often different % fat milks are used and creams can be added to raise fat content (i.e. double or triple cream cheeses) of the resultant cheese.

Cow’s Milk Products, Fat Contents – USA

Type	Butterfat Content
Butter	>80%
Manufacturers Cream	40%
Heavy Whipping Cream	>36%
Light Whipping Cream/Whipping Cream	30-36%
Medium Cream	25%
Light Cream/Coffee Cream/Sour Cream	18-30%
Half & Half (Blend of cream & milk)	10.5-18%
Whole Milk (Called Homogenized in Canada)	>3.25%
Reduced Fat or 2%	~2.0%
Semi Skimmed Milk	1.5-1.8%
Low Fat or 1% Milk	~1.0%
Skim Milk	~0.1%
Fat Free Half & Half (Blend of skim milk & corn syrup)	~0.0%

Cow’s Milk Products, Fat Contents – UK

Type	Butterfat Content
Breakfast Milk/Channel Island Milk	5.5%
Whole Milk/Full Fat Milk	3.5%
Semi Skimmed Milk	1.5-1.8%
1%/The One Milk	1%
Skimmed Milk	<0.3%