The freshness is very important for any products. But when it comes to milk, it is important doubly as it is perishable, and than the termination of an expiration date is closer, that the taste will be worse than it. For this reason upon purchase of milk in shops the experts advise to take it from the show-window depth since there products always fresher.
Instruction
1. Good milk has to have white color with a small yellowish or bluish shade. If the acquired product has other shade, it is worth doubting its quality. In general, in milk red or blue color as result of improper feeding or a disease of a milch animal can appear. The flavor of a fresh milk has to be peculiar, sweetish and pleasant if it is luscious and sweet or even bitterish, it is better to pour out such drink in a sink at once.
2. Pasteurized milk needs to be stored only in cold spots. As a dairy products is a fine environment for active development of microorganisms. Any slightest violations in the conditions of their storage or realization will lead to change of structure, and far not to the best. Besides, upon purchase of milk in shops it is worth paying attention to packing, it has to be clean, with the accurate drawing and inscriptions. In addition, on it the expiration date, date of production and the address of production has to be specified.
3. To check the maintenance of extraneous impurities, it is necessary milk mix with alcohol, in the ratio 1:2, to shake up and pour in a clean and dry glass. If on walls of capacity there are small crumbs, it will mean that milk is restored from dry dairy powder. It is possible also to try to mix this mix and to quickly pour out it in a saucer. If the product isn't diluted, not later than in 7 seconds in milk flakes will appear. In case flakes appeared later, the product is diluted with water. And the more in it an extraneous impurity, the more time will leave on emergence of flakes.
4. It is possible to check quality of milk for availability of otherworldly impurity by means of a litmus piece of paper. In genuine milk the blue litmus piece of paper slightly will redden, and red – slightly will turn blue. If in milk there is a little alkali, for example soda, the red piece of paper will strongly become blue, and blue will keep the natural color.
5. It is worth refraining from purchase of milk if on packing it is written that by production emulsifiers, stabilizers or other food supplements were used. These substances, of course, increase a goods expiration date, but to it any don't add advantage.
6. If you decided to buy rural milk in the market, it is undesirable to take it in plastic bottles. Because there is a probability that in it still there was a taste of Hand bell sparkling water or still some drink which was initially in this bottle. It is very heavy to wash such tanks in house conditions for this reason it is better to take milk in glass jars.