How to distinguish real milk and very good fake milk

Milk is a familiar product for babies today. However, to avoid buying fake milk, poor quality for babies, please find out the following article immediately to know how to distinguish real milk fake milk to help protect your baby's health.

The oligarchs have many sophisticated tricks to produce and trade fake milk. The most common forms are manufacturer clones, extended use, even purchasing limited packaging used to replace the fake milk inside.

For imitation milk of producers, users can observe packaging with faint and unclear images, words that are inaccurate or misspelled due to deletion or printing process. husband, distorted box .

However, it is difficult for users to distinguish fake milk in real boxes. A recent arrest of fake milk shows that establishments often purchase genuine, intact, undisturbed, long shelf life . from scrap stores. After cleaning, the box is packed with poor quality milk and put the lid on the foil, closing the can like a real product. Fake milk has a well-known brand name to increase profits and ease through consumers' eyes.

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Fake milk and poor quality milk are harmful to children's health.

Currently, despite the press has been much informed about the types of fake milk and poor quality milk that are harmful to children's health, but many mothers still face unfortunate mistakes.

Nutrition expert Pham Thi Yen Nhi shared on the Family and Social Newspaper: "There have been many cases of children being taken to emergency hospitals by their parents due to milk poisoning, mild vomiting, reflux, fever, and diarrhea. flow, severe, convulsions, systemic infections . ".

Tips to distinguish fake milk

Talking to PV, Associate Prof. Dr. Nguyen Cong Khan, Director of the Nutrition Institute said that to distinguish good-poor milk quality, mothers can base on the following points:

  1. The delicious powdered milk, when opening the lid, will radiate a pleasant and pleasant fragrance , the milk powder is soft and light yellow.Poor quality milk powder will not be able to get these, which may be an unpleasant scent, powders and strange colors.
  2. If you want to check more carefully, you can apply one of the following ways : Put a spoonful of milk powder into a cup and pour cold water into it.Poor quality or fake milk powder will settle right down to the bottom and dissolve quickly even without stirring.Meanwhile, good milk powder will float, not dissolve if not stirred.Similarly, when pouring boiling water into a cup with powdered milk, fake or poor quality milk powder will melt away and no longer the natural color of milk.Good powdered milk will float and curl if not stirred.

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If the milk has a strange smell and smells, using taste buds again finds strange taste, it is absolutely forbidden to let children drink.

The formula for making fake milk is usually made up of sugar, monosodium glutamate, milk powder, Chinese fat and flavoring ingredients. Children and the elderly, sick people who drink fake milk may have diarrhea, vomiting, slow weight gain, respiratory diseases, kidney failure .

Ms. Vu Thanh Tam - Director of Growmart store system, belonging to Vietnam Pharmaceutical Group, said users can detect fake milk in real boxes if all senses are mobilized.

With long-term experience in European powdered milk business such as Physiolac (France), Kanny (Netherlands), Ninolac (Belgium), fresh milk Neuburger (Germany), brown rice Reis (Germany) ., Ms Tam advised , first of all need to use visual to check the product intact or erased expiry date, box cap warping . Then, find out whether the dairy business belongs to its distribution system , by looking at the packaging or calling the company.

After visual and tactile examination, continue to use the sense of smell to detect odors. If the milk has a strange smell and smells, using taste buds again finds strange taste, it is absolutely forbidden to let children drink."It is best to buy milk that is hard to counterfeit, packed with cans in foreign countries with modern techniques from shells to caps. Choose to buy milk with a shelf life instead of printing with ink" Tam shares.