eli5: Why is there 1%, 2%, and whole milk but not any other percentage?

Question

I just feel like its weird how the percentage goes from 1-2% to whole.

Also, what do these percentages even mean? How can you turn milk into 1% or 2% milk?

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Answer 1

Probably depends on where you live. Where I live, we have 0.5%, 0.7%, 0.9%, 1.8% and many more.