Best Milk Ranking: How Do Shelf-Stable Packaged Milks Taste? How to Choose Fresh Milk?

After completing the 🥛 Portal: Part 1 Fresh Milk Selection Guide 🥛,

The writer, having consumed too much milk,

silently rested and recovered for several days.

During these days of rest, he kept thinking,

Yes! It's time for Part 2 (inner monologue).

ok, fine.

Let's get started.

Contents of this review:

• Group photo
• Actual testing
• Rankings
• Terminology explanation
• Q&A

01

Group Photo

According to international practice,

Let's first show the family portrait of the 12 contestants in this review:

02

Actual Testing

Pasteurized Milk (Fresh Milk)

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| Morning Light |

Hong Kong Supply No. 1

Rich and thick texture, full of milky flavor!

You can distinctly feel the sweetness on your tongue after swallowing~

So good, so good, so good!

Take a big gulp and hold it in your mouth

The rich milky aroma

wrapping your tongue feels exceptionally thick!

The richness is excellent

It's just like the milk skin layer

on top when mom used to boil milk in childhood

Highly recommended!

Richness: ⭐⭐⭐+

Milk flavor: ⭐⭐⭐+

Deliciousness: ⭐⭐⭐+

Shelf life: 10 days

Price: 946ml / 17.5 yuan

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| Hema |

House-shaped Fresh Milk

The texture is relatively thin

Both milk flavor and sweetness are faint

Richness is lacking

The aftertaste has a hint of grain flavor

Richness: ⭐⭐

Milk flavor: ⭐

Deliciousness: ⭐⭐

Shelf life: 7 days

Price: 950ml / 10.9 yuan

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| Daily Fresh Language |

Fresh Milk

Light sweetness and rich milk flavor coexist

There's a sweet aftertaste after drinking, with a light texture

The milk flavor is stronger than Hong Kong Supply No. 1

Pretty palatable

Richness: ⭐⭐⭐

Milk flavor: ⭐⭐⭐

Deliciousness: ⭐⭐⭐

Price: 720ml / 19.9 yuan

Modified Milk

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| Hema |

Fresh Milk White Peach Milk 🍑

The fruit white peach itself fills people with

thoughts of happiness and sweetness

The "seasonal limited" on the packaging

seems to hint at the noble status and uniqueness of white peach milk

When you tear open the package, a strong peach flavoring aroma hits your nose

Strong, strong, strong

Richness: ⭐⭐⭐

Milk flavor: ⭐

Deliciousness: ⭐

Shelf life: 15 days

Price: 950ml / 19.9 yuan

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| Hema |

Fresh Milk Grape Milk 🍇

When mentioning grape flavor, you can't help but swallow

The first taste brings a fresh and elegant grape aroma

Moderate thickness with noticeable sweetness

More natural than the white peach milk

Tester #1's experience:

It tastes like Ribena concentrate mixed with milk

Sweeter than white peach milk

Richness: ⭐⭐⭐

Milk flavor: ⭐

Deliciousness: ⭐⭐

Shelf life: 15 days

Price: 950ml / 29.9 yuan

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| Yonsai Ranch Milk |

RT Sterilized Milk

Yonsai Ranch is an imported product from South Korea. It's a modified milk with slightly less milk flavor compared to other fresh milks.

Tester #1's experience: It's like diluted condensed milk.

Richness: ⭐⭐

Milk flavor: ⭐

Deliciousness: ⭐⭐

Shelf life: 15 days

Price: 1L / 29.9 yuan

High-Temperature Sterilized Milk

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| Adopt a Cow |

Jersey Cow Pure Milk

The milk aroma is strong, but the texture is relatively thin

Average sweetness, feels a bit watery

Richness: ⭐⭐

Milk flavor: ⭐

Deliciousness: ⭐

Shelf life: 180 days

Price: 250ml / 8.8 yuan

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| Xiyu Chun |

Pure Milk

Rich milk aroma, very full milk flavor

You can clearly feel the thickness of the milk on your tongue

Richness: ⭐⭐⭐

Milk flavor: ⭐⭐⭐

Deliciousness: ⭐⭐⭐

Shelf life: 6 months

Price: 200g / 3.5 yuan

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| Tianrun |

Pasteurized Fresh Milk

At first taste, you clearly feel a sweetness rushing down your throat

It has the texture of milk powder mixed with water

Richness: ⭐⭐

Milk flavor: ⭐⭐⭐

Deliciousness: ⭐

Shelf life: 21 days

Price: 950ml / 38 yuan

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| New Zealand Anchor |

Pure Milk

The milk aroma is quite noticeable, thickness is average, overall feels rather ordinary

Richness: ⭐⭐⭐

Milk flavor: ⭐⭐

Deliciousness: ⭐⭐

Shelf life: 12 months

Price: 1L / 19.9 yuan

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| Junlebao |

Yue Xianhuo Milk

Soft and medium texture, compared to Tianrun, the milk flavor is more pronounced

The milk sweetness is moderate

Richness: ⭐⭐

Milk flavor: ⭐⭐

Deliciousness: ⭐⭐

Shelf life: 19 days

Price: 450ml / 19.9 yuan

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| Devondale |

Whole Milk

Medium thickness, the milk behaves very gently in the mouth, and the milk aroma is also quite noticeable.

The writer believes that

Devondale's product has very high

cost-effectiveness among similar varieties

After all, it performs well in all aspects

Richness: ⭐⭐

Milk flavor: ⭐⭐

Deliciousness: ⭐⭐

Shelf life: 12 months

Price: 1L / 8.8 yuan

Family portrait of high-temperature sterilized milk group.

Thanks to merciless hand model #2 and his incredibly strong hands

for their dedicated appearance!

Family portrait of fresh milk group.

Thanks to merciless hand model #1 and her slender, fair hands

for their powerful appearance!

Family portrait of modified milk group.

Thanks to merciless hand model #1 holding 3 large milk cartons

for appearing under the scorching sun!

03

Rankings

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Terminology Explanation

Fresh Milk / Pasteurized Milk

Sterilization temperature: 75-85℃

Sterilization time: 15-16 seconds

Shelf life: 3-7 days

Harmful bacteria in fresh milk are killed

while beneficial bacteria are preserved

This ensures product safety

while maximizing the retention of fresh milk's nutritional components

and natural taste

High-Temperature Sterilized Milk (ESL Milk, UHT Milk)

This is what we commonly call pure milk

Compared to fresh milk with short shelf life that must be refrigerated

it's more convenient in transportation, storage, and usage

and can avoid waste

ESL Milk

Sterilization temperature: 120-137℃

Sterilization time: 2-4 seconds

Shelf life: 7-10 days, 30 days, 40 days or longer

Compared to regular pasteurized milk

the sterilization intensity is greater

the storage time is longer than pasteurized milk

but some milk nutrients are destroyed by high temperature

situated between pasteurized milk and UHT milk

UHT Milk

Sterilization temperature: 135-150℃

Sterilization time: 1-5 seconds

Shelf life: At room temperature, can last up to a year or more if unopened

Uses aseptic packaging

Due to high sterilization temperature

the flavor and taste are slightly inferior

nutritional loss is also greater

Also known as ultra-high temperature instant sterilized milk

Modified Milk

According to China's definition of modified milk

it's a liquid product made with not less than 80% raw cow (sheep) milk or reconstituted milk as the main raw material

with other raw materials or food additives added

or nutritional fortifiers

produced using appropriate sterilization and other processes

There are many such products

Breakfast milk, red date milk - they all fall into this category

05

Q&A

I'd like to ask, what are the advantages of UHT (ultra-high temperature sterilized milk)?

For coffee shops, an important factor in choosing ingredients is cost. UHT milk has stable quality, which helps standardize store products, and has obvious price advantages (especially for large, fast-paced coffee shops), making it a better choice.

Delicious milk coffee with perfect texture?

Everyone's perfect milk coffee varies from person to person. For most people, a delicious milk coffee needs balance, a smooth and silky texture that allows you to finish it effortlessly and quickly, and even makes you want another one! For you, that's a perfect milk coffee! (Due to weather conditions, we didn't test milk and coffee fusion in this issue! If you want to see it, you can secretly tell me in the comments section)

Alright,

that's all for today's rambling with all you experts,

the writer is going to take a milk bath!

Meeting adjourned!

Special thanks for this issue: Merciless Hand Model #1

Merciless Hand Model #2

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