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lait

milk

scheme of the production of buttermilk

In most French supermarkets, you can get fresh milk in the dairy section or UHT milk on the shelf, where there is quite a wide choice of milks to choose from (low or no lactose, fortified with extra vitamins, etc.)

lait entier: full fat milk (red cap on the bottle)

demi-écrémé: half skimmed milk (1.5% or 1.8% fat, blue cap on the bottle). This is the most common in France.

écrémé: completely skimmed (green cap on the bottle)

Some other useful milk words:

babeurre: buttermilk

confiture de lait: dulce de leche

lait au chocolat: chocolate milk. Cacolac, a popular commercial version sold in bottles, has been made in Bordeaux since 1954.

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Text © Dana Facaros

Images by Danone, Égoïté