Milk is an ideal food because it has all kinds of nutrients, but adulterated milk can cause serious damage to your body. Not only excessive water but also washing powder, carbohydrates, formalin, urea, and various chemicals are being mixed with milk. Such toxic substances cause watery eyes, irritated nose, and throat, cough, dizziness, severe skin irritation, etc. Finally, heart attack, breast and intestine cancer can occur. Even women are at risk of miscarriage due to adulterated milk. So let's get to know how to check adulterated milk to avoid this horrible loss. Testing adulterated milk at home Monitoring milky stain To find out if there is water mixed in the milk, drop a drop of milk in a bright-clean sloping place. If the milk droplet forms a white line on the back while rolling, then there is no water mixed in the milk. On the other hand, if the drop of milk starts rolling fast on the sloping place without any line ensures the water in the milk. Read: Quit Smoking: How to prevent Nicotine addiction Verifying the viscosity Take a drop of water on the finger or palm of your hand. Then rub it with a drop of milk like cream. If you find it a little sticky, then the milk is pure. Rubbing adulterated milk on your hands will make a feel slippery like soap. Verifying Odor and taste If you get the smell of soap or soda, while smelling the raw milk well, then that milk is never free from adulteration. This way you can easily recognize synthetic milk. Synthetic milk containing a variety of chemicals causes a different smell from pure milk. Moreover, pure milk is also quite sweet to eat. Contrarily, if you have adulterated milk without boiling it, you will get a slightly bitter taste. Read:IKIGAI: The Japanese Secret to a Long Healthy life Testing Carbohydrate’s presence When pure milk is boiled, there is not much color difference. If the milk turns yellow as soon as it is heated, then you will understand that it has been mixed with carbohydrates. Also, take 5 ml milk and mix 2 teaspoons of salt in it. If the milk turns bluish, then the milk must contain carbohydrates. Read: Intermittent Fasting: Health Benefits and Risks Solidified milk observation Boil slowly in a bowl with some milk on low heat for at least 2-3 hours. After a certain period, the milk will lose its liquidity and turn into solidified milk at its residue. If this milk becomes rock solid, then the milk is adulterated. Testing Urea’s presence It is hard to detect the presence of urea in milk as the differences between pure milk and urea mixed milk are hardly visible. Here is what you can do: Make a mixture by mixing one teaspoon of milk with one teaspoon of soybean pulse powder. Then keep stirring the mixture well for 5 minutes. Then dip a litmus paper in it. If the mixture turns from red to blue after 30 seconds, you will understand that the milk contains urea. Read: Can I take COVID vaccines from two different brands? Inspecting the washing powder’s presence Nowadays you will often see the news of mixing detergent, soap powder, and shampoo in milk on TV and newspapers. To see if there is such washing powder in the milk, take 5-10 ml of milk and the same amount of water in a bottle and shake it well. If it results in long-lasting foam, then you can be sure that washing powder is mixed with milk. Summing Up Both creating public awareness about adulterated milk and ensuring legal action are important as well as the importance of milk in the daily diet to be included in the theme of World Dairy Day. You must be careful when buying milk for the health of you and your family. Read Top Bangladeshi Milk and Dairy Companies, Brands