The weather is getting hotter and the food at home is starting to spoil faster. The value of vegetables and fruits at home is limited, even if they are broken, they will not be very distressed. But if many parents are inexperienced, it would be bad if they accidentally spoil their children’s milk powder. Milk powder for babies is generally more expensive now. It’s a pity to throw it away if it’s broken, but if you feed it to your baby, you’re worried that it will be harmful to your child’s health. So parents are still very distressed.
But milk powder, sometimes it can’t be seen if it deteriorates slightly. So how can parents tell whether the milk powder has gone bad? Here are four tips for discerning.
. If parents find that the milk powder is agglomerated, it means that the milk powder has begun to be damp. If the lump is broken, it can still be eaten. However, it is still necessary to eat as soon as possible. If the lump feels sticky and hard to crush, it means that the milk powder has deteriorated and can no longer be drunk.
(2) Does the milk powder have a peculiar smell?
Normal milk powder has a faint milky smell fragrance. If the milk powder has a slight peculiar smell, such as sour or musty, then the milk powder must have deteriorated. Even if the milk powder looks normal, you can’t eat it anymore.
⑶Is the milk powder sour and bitter?
Sweetness is an important reason why babies like to drink milk powder. Normal milk powder has this sweet milk flavor. If the taste of the milk powder is different after reconstitution, such as sour, bitter, or other peculiar smells. Excluding the influence of external factors such as water and feeding bottles, it is definitely that the milk powder has deteriorated seriously, so do not give it to your baby.
(4) Is it difficult to dissolve the milk powder after brewing?
Sometimes, if the parents find that the milk powder is difficult to dissolve, there will be a lot of lumps of milk powder that cannot be melted, as well as hanging walls and flocs. That milk powder must have spoiled. There are also milk powders on the Youyou resource website, and there will be obvious stratification after a period of time. This is also a manifestation of milk powder deterioration.
In fact, after the milk powder is opened, it is easily affected by the outside world. Therefore, after the milk powder is opened, it is better for parents to let the baby drink it within one month. Parents who haven’t eaten milk powder for more than a month are better not to feed their babies. Moreover, parents not only need to judge whether the milk powder has deteriorated, but also learn to store it correctly. Sometimes, the inadvertent actions of parents will also accelerate the deterioration of milk powder.
Some of the common mistakes parents make when storing milk powder are: putting the milk powder in the refrigerator, forgetting to cover the milk powder after scooping it out, pouring the packaged milk powder back when traveling, etc. The most important thing to store milk powder is to keep it in the shadeCool, ventilated, dry and sealed. The environment in the refrigerator is relatively humid. Caking can easily occur even at low temperatures. However, if the milk powder is not covered properly, or it is poured back after being divided, it will increase the contact between the milk powder and the air, and the moisture, dust, impurities in the air will contaminate the milk powder and accelerate the deterioration of the milk powder.
For babies whose gastrointestinal function is still relatively fragile, more attention should be paid to the east and west at the entrance. Parents usually pay more attention to the storage of their children’s milk powder, which can not only make the baby more at ease, but also reduce the deterioration and damage of milk powder, avoid waste, and kill two birds with one stone! Therefore, parents should learn how to store milk powder from now on, identify its status, and set up a guarantee for the health of their children.