Milk bottle top

Milk bottle top
A Christmas-themed foil milk bottle top from the United Kingdom. The red and white stripes show that it is semi-skimmed and the use by date is pressed into the foil.

A milk bottle top is a lid to a milk bottle. They are usually colour-coded to show the consumer the different varieties of milk, especially the flavour or fat content. This colour-coding tends to vary between, but is usually consistent within, countries.

Contents

Countries

Australia

(these are all screw top plastic lids)

  • Blue top - Regular milk
  • Purple top - Reduced Fat milk
  • Light blue top - Low Fat milk
  • Pink top - Skim milk
  • Gold Top - Unhomogenized
  • Green Top - Light milk

(flavoured milks)

  • Pink - strawberry
  • Light Brown - coffee
  • Dark Brown - chocolate

Brazil

These are used almost only for premium pasteurized milk. UHT packaging colours varies by brand.

  • Blue top - Regular (whole) milk
  • Red top - Semi-skimmed milk
  • Yellow top - Skim milk

Canada

Labelling colours vary from dairy bottlers:

  • Blue top - Skim milk or 2% milk
  • Purple top - 1% milk
  • Pink top - 2% milk
  • Green top - 1% milk
  • Red top - 3.8% or homogenized milk
  • White - chocolate milk
  • Yellow top - Homogenized milk or skim milk
  • Brown - Chocolate milk

People's Republic of China

  • Blue top - Whole Milk
  • Red - Reduced Fat
  • Dark Green - Low Fat
  • Light Green - Skim

Republic of China

  • Dark Green top - Whole Milk
  • Red top - Reduced Fat
  • Yellow top - Skim Milk

Hong Kong

  • Silver top - 3.5g fat and 110mg Calcium
  • Green top - hi-calcium with 2.0g fat and 165mg of Calcium
  • Gold top - slim milk with 2g fat and 160mg calcium or milk full cream with milk re-added

Denmark

  • Purple - Skim milk
  • Light blue - 2% milk
  • Dark Green - Whole milk
  • Light Green - Unpasteurized
  • Butterscotch - Half and Half

Finland

  • Red - whole milk (3.5% fat)
  • Dark blue - normal milk (1.5% fat)
  • Blue - light milk (1% fat)
  • Light blue - fat free milk

France

  • Red top - full fat milk
  • Blue top - half fat milk
  • Green top - Skim milk

Germany

  • Lavender top - Skim milk
  • Light blue top - 1% milk
  • Dark Blue top - 2% milk
  • Green top - Whole Milk
  • Light Green top -Buttermilk
  • Brown top - Chocolate Milk

Israel

  • Red top - Kefir
  • Blue top - Whole milk
  • Light blue top - 2% milk
  • Green top - 1% milk
  • Light green - Skim milk

Milk bags

  • Red spout - Whole milk
  • Green Spout- 2% milk
  • Blue spout - Skim milk

Republic of Ireland

  • Blue top - whole milk
  • Red top - 2% milk
  • Green top - 1% milk
  • Pink top - Skim Milk
  • White top - creamer

Mexico

  • Yellow top - Whole Milk
  • Green top - 2% milk
  • Blue top - 1% milk
  • Red top - Skim milk

Norway

  • Pink top - Whole milk
  • Yellow top - 2% milk
  • Green top - 1% milk
  • Blue top - Skim milk

New Zealand

  • Silver/Grey top - full fat milk - not homogenized
  • Blue top - Full fat
  • Light blue top -lite semi skimmed - 1.5% fat
  • Dark green top - trim - fully skimmed
  • Light green top - trim - Super skimmed
  • Yellow top - trim -added calcium
  • Orange top - Mega milk, packed with calcuim
  • Red top - fresh cream

Russia

  • Green top - Whole Milk
  • Blue top - Half Milk
  • Red top - Reduced Milk
  • Pink top - Low fat
  • Yellow top - Skim Milk

United Kingdom

A purple-top plastic milk bottle

Plastic bottles

  • Blue top - Whole Milk (3.5% fat content)
  • Green top - Semi skimmed Milk (1.7% fat content)
  • Red top - Skimmed Milk (0.3% fat content)

Less Common

  • Purple top - Morrisons own brand, 'The One' brand and Waitrose own brand (1% fat content)
  • Gold top (not orange top) - Sainsbury's (1% fat content)
  • White top - Asda milk (5.5% fat content)

Glass bottles

  • Gold foil - milk from Channel Island (Jersey/Guernsey) breeds (about 5.2% fat)[1]
  • Silver foil - whole milk (about 4% fat - minimum 3.5%)
  • Red foil - Homogenised whole milk
  • Red and silver striped foil - semi-skimmed milk (less than 2% fat)
  • Blue and silver checkered foil - skimmed milk (0.1 to 0.3% fat)
  • Green foil - raw (unpasteurized) milk, giving rise to the name "green-top milk"
  • Gold striped foil on a green background - unpasteurized milk from Channel Island breeds[2]

Note: Blue Peter often had annual charity campaigns where children would collect aluminium bottle-tops to raise money.

United States

  • Red tops - whole milk.
  • Light blue tops - skim milk.
  • Blue tops - 2% milk.
  • Purple tops - 1% milk.
  • Brown tops - chocolate milk.
  • Green tops - buttermilk.
  • White tops - Unhomogenized milk.
  • Black tops - Unpasteurized milk.

Seasonal Speciality

  • Strawberry Milk - Mauve - Available year round - colored top
  • Pumpkin Spice milk - Yellow-orange top - available from Late September until about November 15.
  • Egg Nog - Red Top- Available around Christmas
  • Light Egg Nog- Green top- Available a little past New Year, due to its lesser popularity.
  • Soy Milk- White Top - Usually in cartons, in a separate section or store

Benefits

The colour-coding of milk bottle tops helps consumers quickly to choose the product they want without having to look at labels. It also encourages consistency between regions.


References


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