How to test purity of Milk at home- Chitale, Amul Failed !

I am disgusted !

I feel guilty and wish I had listened to my elder son’s plea that he did not like the taste of the milk. I would coax him with all kinds of stories. But even though he has stopped drinking milk since last one and half years now, my younger son loves to drink only milk !

I wish I had done this simple test easlier which I do now, then all my guilt would have gone.

I wanted to make paneer out of the excess milk I had at home. It was Amul toned milk. This is 4 days back story!
I first added half lemon juice, but there was no change in the milk. Then added one tablespoon of lemoneez. Still nothing happened. Another two table spoon of lemoneez and the milk refused to curdle!

I was very shocked. I called my husband from another room. Discussed with him and that took around 5 more minutes. When we reached back to the kitchen, the milk had changed its consistency only where lemoneez was added. It looked like a rubbery white lump. So I mixed the whole thing in the milk with a spoon and gave a vigourous stir. And guess what, there was no change in the rest of the milk!

Next I tried the same testing with Chitale milk. That too refused to curdle back !

The last brand I tested was Katraj. Thankfully, the milk started to curdle the moment I added just half a lemon.

I now know why the ghee that I made out of all the stored malai looks, smells and tastes like dalda !
Dalda is vanaspati ghee. Thankfully Vanaspati was made of plants, mostly from palm oil which was hydrogenated.

But can milk too be make out of plant ? Or are the chemicals used to make the fake milk made of plant extracts? This seems quite likely. I really have no clue of source of the chemicals but I do know one thing for sure.

I will have to continue my quick home test every day for as little as one cup of milk with lemon, to assure myself if I am giving pure milk to my kids. The tiny amount of paneer I make out of this testing process goes immediately in any daal, gravy or dough for the day. So I know I am safe as long as I do the test.

I wish anyone reading this page, tries it randomly if not everyday, to drink pure milk and not the poisioned, adultrated milk.

surekhap74

April 1st, 2010 at 1:01 pm

Hi Madhurie,

I have been chitale milk to my daughter since she was 9 months old .please let me know should i continue with or should i give some other brand

thankyou
surekha

Madhurie Singh

April 1st, 2010 at 1:45 pm Log in to Reply

well no harm so no worries wat you can do is randomly test the milk. In summer milk shud go bad if kept out for long. If by chance your milk is still perfect even after 3-4 hours of staying out in this climate, I wud say, test it. Its not the brands but the in between distributors or agents who are culprits.

Navina

October 16th, 2009 at 10:42 am

I told my mil yesterday who is staying with us about this. She said that day before she tried, she was able to curdle the chitale milk. She first tried with 1/2 lime and it did not curdle. Then she used the other 1/2 and then it curdled.

In our area in Kothrud I have not been able to find Katraj. Its mostly Chitale. Could the milk that comes in tetra packs be pure. I usually give formula Nan3 for him as he is still below 2 years . But I notice there is heavy shortage of Nan3 nowadays. So I’m wondering if I should switch to regular cow milk. In our home town, many used to rear cows in their house. So people with toddlers used to get milk from them. This is difficult to find in the cities. So I’m thinking of giving him the milk from the Amul or Nestle tetra pack will be good.

Madhurie Singh

October 16th, 2009 at 10:49 am Log in to Reply

Yes! You are right, I have shifted to tetra pack too.

Also the adultration can be in any brand, today Amul tomorrow Chitale .

Some times testing tetra packs also makes sense. In Africa, Nestle was sued by the Govt. itself for dumping expired product, repacked and claiming mother’s milk is not as good as Nestle Milk!!!! So even very reputed brands and companies are not trust worthy.

Madhurie Singh

October 2nd, 2009 at 12:39 am

HI Kavita,

That’s a great information. I will check on Homogenization.

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Kavita

September 24th, 2009 at 5:40 am

Hi,

First of all Tanks to Madhuri for the wonderful Blog….

Regarding milk my comment is please avoid any milk which sayson the packet “HOMOGENIZED”. During Hmogenization anyhing can be added to milk.. So please buy Amul Gold or Brittania Full Cream milk or Chitale full cream milk.. Pasterization of milk is okay.. But pleaase do not buy Homogised milk.. I am a food technologist so this comment is from an expert…

madhuriesingh

September 14th, 2009 at 9:41 am

Good that you changed the brand. But I think, the brands as also victims of the gang of milk poisoners.

I wish each brand takes more control over their distribution. Although the ghee from Amul Milk is something I find too fishy. It does not even taste or smell like pur cow milk ghee!!!!!!!

There was a scam of ghee made out of dead (highway accident) animals fat in UP, that were raided last year.