eli5 How are different types of milk made? Does a cow produce heavy whipping cream that just gets diluted down to skim milk?

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eli5 How are different types of milk made? Does a cow produce heavy whipping cream that just gets diluted down to skim milk?

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Raw milk has a percentage of high fat buttermilk and cream in it.

Whole milk (or homo milk depending where you are from) is milk with the natural fat content.

A milk separator is basically a centrifuge the spins around and separates the milk into products with different fat levels.

Butter milk, cream, 2%, 1%, and skim milk are all made using this process.

Those products are then processed to make everything from butter, Ice Cream, cheese, yogurt, etc