Milk Powder instead of Milk

rakeshs_ca

Last time we were in India, kids were really sick with "Delhi Belly" on and off though.

Someone had mentioned another thing to avoid is milk. Are there any good milk powders that taste as good as milk. Some one had mentioned Nido. Is that available in India? Any others that might be available in Canada that the kids could try before we go.

Thanks for any recommendations

dani

Just cook the milk and you/your kids should have no problems...

Nick-H

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Never heard to avoid milk.

Certainly there are milk powders that are OK in tea, but I doubt that they'd make a wonderful 'glass of milk'

...but then, my Indian wife always tells me not to drink cold milk straight from the packet without boiling it first.

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gregornot

Namaste,
Goat milk is very easy to digest and you start get good benfits in 15 minutes as opposed to the six hours it takes for cow milk to digest. While it is easy(sometimes)to get powdered ot liquid. I offer this as a healthy advise, but I don't know what the stores or markets carry. But with powder,it's the water thing again, good luck on solving your problem with milk.
peace, gregor

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crvlvr

Milk that you get from diaries (in packets) in homohenized mil. Not the best for your health. http://www.wellbeingjournal.com/homogenized.htm It suppoed to be pastureized. But, who knows..

shanthi

Just try to make sure that any dairy products you buy are pasturised - milk, butter, cheese etc... True that milk, though a glass of it cold is great, does take a long time to digest. Try curd if you haven't yet - it's basic natural yoghurt and if the kids did get a bad stomach (which can be caused by numerous other things of course) curd mixed in with plain white rice & a little pinch of salt, can be a real stomach settler! If you're not cooking for yourself you can just buy a serving of white rice and get your curd almost anywhere.

One last thing, always check the date when milk was packed. Unlike milk we buy back in Ireland that can last up to a week in a container,I'm lucky if the milk bought here even lasts until the following morning - had to thrown large quantities away in the begining!

Don't buy any chicken dishes from street vendors, if you aren't sure about the cleanliness (ha ha)

edwardseco

My sis in law always boils the milk even if it claims to be pasteurized..

haritha

We boil the milk even it is pasteurised or from our own cows. We have hosted families and children drank boiled milk and never had any problems . So noiling the milk as well as to make sure the milk also good. Amul in India sell milk in tetrapackets.

himmat01

Try using the milk available in tetra pack. You'll get Nestle, Amul and Mother Dairy brands.

crvlvr

Given the pesticide in Pepsi and Coke situation, does buying brand names make it any more safe?

rakeshdc2il

Use Only Tetra Pack Milk

brownboy66

wow....what a diverse range of information! From what I recall of milk treatment when I lived on a dairy farm:

a) Pasteurization - the milk is heated and then cooled to kill off a whole bunch of bacteria. It still has to be kept cool - but at the very least you would probably want to get pasteurized milk if you can. If your not sure - boiling the milk and then cooling it would have the same effect (if I remember my biology correctly - boiling alone isn't enough to kill off all organism as it isn't the heat that kills some of the tougher micro organism - but the sudden change in temperature - i.e going from hot to cold).

b)homogenisation - this is when the fat in milk is effectively broken down so that it stays in a liquid form instead of separating and rising to the top. Now homogenized milk is also usually pasteurized - so on its own homogenization is of no benefit in terms of getting rid of bugs. Its a convenience thing.

c)UHT (ultra high treatment). Sort of an extension of pasteurization involving even higher temperatures. Pretty much kills everything that might be living in the milk (including the organisms responsible for making milk curdle - which is why it can be stored on the shelf).

So you can get UHT milk all over the place(imported - but no too expensive). We use it for our kids - and its fine. Like wise - the pasteurized milk is fine.

oh....in case you didn't know - India is the largest producer of milk in the world!

Dilliwala

The powdered milk is crap as a substitute for milk. Only good with tea/coffee and even then some people don't like it - very sweet.
The milk in cartons is safe to drink. I drink Amul at times when out of town, can't speak of the others.
If your kids got sick from milk last time, it cud have been adulterated, so best to avoid 'unmarked' milk from local 'dairies'. Mother Dairy in Delhi sells it from vending machines and in plastic packets. This HAS to be boiled first - Mrs N and others are right.

Trust BB to give a techie answer in a thread about milk!

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brownboy66

Hey! It's not my fault! If your having to milk them twice a day you can't really avoid it. Plus I didn't use any acronyms, or words like broadband, megabit,etc......so there!



oh...good post by the way Dilli (except for the last part of course)!