What is the temperature for mixing milk powder

For some pregnant women with less milk, you usually use milk powder to feed your baby. However, when using milk powder to feed your baby, you should pay attention to how many degrees of boiling water the baby needs to drink the milk powder, because the brewing temperature of the milk powder should reach the sterilization effect before the child can drink it. Because children's body resistance is relatively weak, I hope you can be careful not to let your children eat some bad milk powder.

Generally, the recommended water temperature for making milk powder is around 50 degrees. It is recommended that you mix one-third cup of cold boiled water and two-thirds of boiled water. When preparing milk powder, people usually pay attention to two issues:

First, how many milliliters of boiled water should be matched with how many spoons of milk powder; second, what is the temperature of the boiled water. These two questions are usually clearly marked on the milk powder can. However, careful mothers will find that the temperature shown on each type of milk powder is different.

Some Japanese milk powder brands, such as Meiji, Glico, Morinaga and other milk powders, will tell you to boil water to 70 degrees Celsius, pour it into a sterilized bottle, add the required amount of milk powder into the bottle and shake well. Note, it is 70 degrees Celsius. The water temperature of milk powder sold in the United States, such as Abbott and Mead Johnson, is 35-40 degrees Celsius. The water temperature written on the Mead Johnson cans sold in China is 50 degrees Celsius.

If you ask some confinement nannies, most of them will tell you that 42 degrees Celsius is more suitable for preparing milk powder. Here, based on personal experience, I think it is safer to brew milk powder with water at 70 degrees Celsius. The advantage of using relatively low-temperature water to prepare milk powder is that it can be given to the baby quickly; some mothers also believe that this will not destroy the nutrients in the milk powder.

In fact, this is not the case. If the water temperature used to make milk powder is too low, the bacteria in the milk powder may not be effectively killed. Using water above 70 degrees will not only not destroy the nutrients, but also kill some bacteria that are very harmful to babies, including Cronobacter sakazakii. If you are careful, you may notice that relevant standards have been issued internationally to adjust the preparation temperature of milk powder to 70℃.

According to the "Guidelines for the Safe Preparation, Storage and Handling of Powdered Infant Formula" jointly compiled by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Health Organization, infant formula should be prepared with water at a temperature of no less than 70 degrees Celsius to kill the Enterobacter sakazakii in the milk powder (that is, boiling water that has been cooled for no more than 30 minutes can be used). Prepared milk should be cooled to feeding temperature and then consumed immediately. If the prepared milk is not consumed within two hours after preparation, it should be thrown away.

The method of making milk powder for babies is as follows, for reference only:

1. Add 70 degrees Celsius (or higher) water to the bottle;

2. Add appropriate amount of milk powder into the bottle and shake well with water;

3. Screw on the bottle cap, put the bottle under the tap to cool it to the appropriate temperature, and then give it to your baby.

I believe that after reading this article's introduction to the temperature for preparing milk powder, you should all know that the general preparation temperature for milk powder is 70 degrees. However, we cannot give the prepared milk powder to our children immediately. We should leave it for a while to let it cool down a bit to avoid hurting the baby's intestines. At the same time, we must pay attention to the quality of the milk powder our children consume.