Im idiot, “The Milk” :)

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1. Its about legal names you cant name the other one milk because its not technicly milk

2. Maitojuoma = milk drink. If just says milk, it’s milk. Milk drink has either had something added or removed.

3. First is free reign cow milk no real difference but price

4. Both of them are milk but the other one is not so milk

5. The first one is milk and the other one is maitojuoma (milk drink) which is basically milk but something has been removed or added, for example if lactose is removed you can’t call it milk because of some laws.

   Or atleast that is my understanding on the matter.

6. First one is milk, second one is maitojuoma, not maito (milk), so milk “drink” but not milk.

7. It just has some added vitamins so they can’t legally call it milk anymore. But it is just normal milk.

8. Kevytmaitojuima isn’t straight up milk, it’s produced partly from milk powder and for some reason that makes it illegal to call it milk and it’s also cheaper because… I dunno. Maybe it’s about preserving the milk as powder to even out differences in production by cows or something.

9. Maitojuoma is milk which is processed so something was added or removed. You cannot call it maito then. Like lactose free milk would be maitojuoma.

10. The milk drink is milk that has always the same amount of protein when I real milk it varies. Fixing the amount of protein is a process that the EU does not allow for milk so it cannot be sold as milk.

    The more famous milk drink is the lactose free one where half of the lactose is first removed and then the rest is broken. This makes it taste the same as normal milk. The EU allows only breaking all the lactose which makes it disgustingly sweet.

11. Maitojuoma – “milkdrink” is mostly lactose free so you don’t shit yourself after drink it. There is different milks like “arkimaito” is made litlebit different and is just tinybit more processed. Light blue carton non fat, blue carton 1,5% fat, red carton milk 3,5%fat

12. the one without the cow seems to have added vitamin D afaik

13. What a load of nonsense in the responses. First one is milk, the second one is a cheaper alternative for milk that they developed solely for the purpose of having a lower cost alternative that’s somewhat passable as ‘milk’. Alternatively, to be able to utilise some sort of a by-product or leftover from processing milk and other dairy products.

    The milk price has always been a big indicator of the perceived cheapness of a store in Finland. And Valio More often than not was more expensive than Arla. When our store started selling these they were basically at least marketed as a lower-cost alternative for the usual ‘milk-chugger’.

14. Maito = milk, maitojuoma = milk’ish

15. The cheaper milk has been processed in multiple steps here with the intention to regulate the amount of protein probably by removing some to reach the stated figure sometimes even adding some perhaps. Normal milk is just milk only fat percentage is known for sure and the protein can vary the normal amount. I think the protein doesn’t really matter they make a little more taking it out most of the time on average but the extra processing I think affects milk products they are very susceptible to unnecessary processing I think so the taste suffers in those cases.

16. LPT: The Google Translate App is really useful abroad, especially the live-translation feature.

    You can even download languages so you can use it offline IIRC.

    It was super useful in Japan.

    Edit: I’m assuming that OP isn’t native to Finland.

17. It’s like butter and not butter. Something has been done and it cannot be legally called milk anymore.

18. Both are milk tho? Other just has picture of cow.

19. They removed some milk protein out of that milk drink version, and probably added that to protein drinks and Valio+ milk, which has high protein content.

20. In movie terms first one is based on real milk, second one is inspired by real milk

21. They basically taste the same and are nutrionally the same. The milk drink has been processed to have set amount of protein. As regular milk does not go under this process, it most often has bit more protein.

    And they use the excess milk protein then other milk based product that have more protein.

    It’s bit cheaper, so people use it often, as it also taste the same.

22. Red package = whole milk (more fat)
    Blue = light fat milk
    Light blue = fat free

23. ARKI is product series with reduced protein content that’s left over when they take protein from milk to put in products with advertised high protein content.

24. So here’s the actual definition

    >nestemäinen maitovalmiste, jonka valmistukseen liittyy muuta käsittelyä kuin rasvan vakiointia, laktoosin hydrolyysia tai proteiinin, tiettyjen kivennäisaineiden tai vitamiinien rikastamista.

    That roughly translates to

    >A liquid dairy product whose manufacture involves processing other than fat standardisation, lactose hydrolysis, or the enrichment of protein, certain minerals, or vitamins.

    Most of the time this means either a more advanced lactose free milk where the lactose isn’t just hydrolyzed, or one where the amount of protein has been standardized in addition to fat.

    It’s essentially just milk, but can’t legally be called milk, because the definition of milk only included processes that were common back when the definition was written down.

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