green top milk?

kate83

Any milk experts out there - I've got my first bottle of milk this morning. It's green top which as far as I knew was untreated but on the foil top it's stamped to say it's pasteurised.

Had a quick google but that said all milk sold through milkmen was pasteurised and raw milk has to have a warning label on - but on another local dairy site, it said green top was whole unpasteurised and silver top was whole pasteurised - so I'm confused now!
Not going to see my milkman until friday to ask him
Anybody know?

greenbee

It's probably semi-skimmed - what did you ask for?

lesley1960

we have green tops ,its organic semi skimmed

Olliebeak

I'm pretty sure that untreated milk can only be sold direct to the public from the producer and that you would have to specifically request it. It also needs to have a warning label that says it's untreated and could be potentially damaging to your health.

dannahaz

Hi, these days the light green top on the milk means it's Organic, and it's pasteurised.
It is definitely NOT the old greentop milk which used to mean raw/unpasteurised.

We have it, and as lesley says, it's organic and semi skimmed.

radiohelen

Unrelated but it made me smile....today I washed up a milk bottle to discover it was from the Bridgend Creamery...I'm in Leicester! How far away from home is my milk bottle!!!!!!

thriftlady_2

Olliebeak wrote: »

I'm pretty sure that untreated milk can only be sold direct to the public from the producer and that you would have to specifically request it. It also needs to have a warning label that says it's untreated and could be potentially damaging to your health.

That is the case Olliebeak. Your milkman will definitely not be able to sell you raw (unpastuerised) milk. I'd love to buy raw milk as I regard it as a health food and not a health hazard but there aren't any producers round my way.

taplady

My DH is a milkman and he says if its green and silver its organic pasturised. He's never seen a plain green top.Red and silver top means organic semi skimmed.

kate83

Even more confused now - I know it's not organic as it's not from an organic farm.
This isn't the farm where mine comes from but the next nearest to me (mine doesn't have a website) - I assumed they'd be the same
http://www.yorkshiremilk.co.uk/dairy_products.php
which says it's unpasteurised - but as some have said - it should have a warning on

clareyocs

taplady wrote: »

My DH is a milkman and he says if its green and silver its organic pasturised. He's never seen a plain green top.Red and silver top means organic semi skimmed.

could it be all supliers have different colours ?
eg morrisons
Blue - Whole
Green - semi
Red - skimmed

yet my milk man
Silver - whole
Red ans silver - semi
Blue and silver - skimmed

confused:eek:

lesley1960

kate83 wrote: »

Even more confused now - I know it's not organic as it's not from an organic farm.
This isn't the farm where mine comes from but the next nearest to me (mine doesn't have a website) - I assumed they'd be the same
http://www.yorkshiremilk.co.uk/dairy_products.php
which says it's unpasteurised - but as some have said - it should have a warning on

Mine comes from dairy crest lol