How to distinguish the authenticity of one-year-old baby milk powder

Milk powder is food for children. It is also what many children who do not receive breast milk will eat frequently from childhood to adulthood. Therefore, milk powder is particularly important for a child. When the child reaches one year old, milk powder becomes even more important. However, there are various kinds of milk powder now. Not only do they have differences in quality, but there are also authenticity issues. So how do you distinguish the authenticity of one-year-old baby milk powder? Let’s learn more about it through the following introduction.

1. Look at the packaging

If it is bagged milk powder, you can try to gently squeeze the packaging to see if there is any leakage. If there is air leakage, powder leakage, or there is no air in the bag at all, it means that the bag of milk powder has potential quality problems. When purchasing, pay attention to whether the manufacturer on the milk powder packaging is a regular manufacturer and whether there is a product qualification mark. Also pay attention to the shelf life, the closer the date is, the better.

2. Identify colors

Real milk powder is naturally milky yellow or milky white. Some unscrupulous vendors add sugar, chrysanthemum essence and other substances into milk powder to make the milk powder whiter and more dazzling, with crystals and luster on closer inspection, or bleached white, or other unnatural colors, and the powder particles are relatively coarse. Good milk powder generally has a uniform color and a soft luster.

3. Listen to the sound

Pinch the milk powder bag with your fingers and rub it twice, and put your ear close to it. If you hear a "squeaking" sound, it means the powder is fine and it is good milk powder. Fake milk powder is mixed with ingredients such as granulated sugar and glucose, so it has coarser particles and a harder texture, and makes a rustling sound.

If there are lumps in the package, it means the quality of the milk powder is poor. If it is canned milk powder, you can gently shake the can to feel whether there are any lumps inside.

4. Smell

Open the package, the pure milk powder has a natural milk aroma, rich and mellow. Inferior quality milk powder either has no milky aroma or has a sweet and pungent aroma. If there is a noticeable odor in the milk powder, do not let your baby eat it.

5. Taste

Buy it home and open the package, and parents may want to try it again. Put a little milk powder into your mouth. Good milk powder is fine and sticky, easily sticks to teeth and palate, is difficult to dissolve, and has no sugar-free sweetness (except for sweetened milk powder). Fake milk powder dissolves relatively quickly in the mouth, does not stick to teeth, and has a strong sweetness.

6. Dissolution rate

Good quality milk powder dissolves slowly, while inferior quality milk powder dissolves relatively easily. Try pouring milk powder into a cup of cold boiled water. Those that are not easy to dissolve, float on the water surface and stick to the wall of the cup are good milk powders; those that dissolve without stirring and have sediment at the bottom of the cup are generally of poor quality. It should be noted that instant milk powder has special auxiliary agents added so it dissolves faster.

Through the above introduction, we know how to distinguish the authenticity of one-year-old baby milk powder. We must pay attention when purchasing baby milk powder. Generally, when purchasing milk powder, we should go to large and regular baby stores. In addition, we must also pay attention to the expiration date of the milk powder, which is particularly important for babies.