Friends in the 1980s and 1990s, especially children in Shanghai, should be familiar with the "malt milk" thing, right? If you want to talk about childhood drinks, malt milk is comparable to high lego and arctic ocean drinks.
In the 1970s and 1980s, if an ordinary family in Shanghai had a jar of malt milk, the children of the family would definitely let their friends and classmates around them know. Only when there are guests at home, malt milk essence will be taken out and brewed in a cup, just like braised meat in the New Year.
The children at home will wait for the adults to go out, secretly take the malted milk from the cabinet with their feet, steal a bite, wait for the malt milk to melt in the mouth, and the sweet taste fills the mouth, and then reluctantly cover the malt and put it back in place, so as not to show clues.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > what exactly is malted milk? </h1>
Look at the raw materials of malt milk creamer, and you can see what magic this thing has, which has attracted a group of children to become obsessed with it.
Mai: It refers to "malt essence", which is an ingredient produced from the raw material of two barley.
Milk: refers to milk powder, sweet and delicious milk powder increases the aroma of milk, no wonder many people drool when they smell the taste of malted milk.
Fine: refers to raw materials such as sugar and glucose, which is the source of sweetness, and it is naturally sweet to drink.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >how did malt milk creamer come from? </h1>
In the mid-19th century, the only food for babies at that time was breast milk, no milk powder, no complementary food, no rice flour and other foods that infants and young children could eat. Therefore, if the baby's mother is in poor health and unable to produce milk, then the baby has no food.
To solve this problem, a Pair of Horlick brothers in the UK worked together to focus on infant and toddler products. In 1883, they invented a drink that could be made with hot water, which tasted sweet and could supplement the nutrition of babies. By 1887, the drink was officially sold to the public, and it was also named "malt milk".
Because malt milk is powdery, easy to carry, not bad, high calories, not only for children to drink, adults can also supplement calories, so malt milk quickly stood out from baby food, and even became one of the emergency foods, taken by researchers to the Arctic and Antarctic.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >how did Chinese malt milk creamer come from? </h1>
Surprisingly, domestic malt milk extract was originally pushed out by a pharmaceutical factory in Shanghai. At that time, when the owner of this pharmaceutical factory was frustrated in his career, he set his sights on the food manufacturing industry, bought the formula of malt milk essence from Switzerland, and improved it into domestic malt milk creamer for the taste of the Chinese people after returning to China.
Subsequently, the production of malt milk extract encountered fluctuations, until 1985, the official "National Malt Milk Essence Quality Product Evaluation Conference" was held in Tianjin, and 6 domestic malt milk creamer foods were selected. By this time, malt milk creamer had swept throughout Shanghai and became one of the children's favorite drinks at that time, and it was also the most luxurious drink.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >why did malt milk creamer fall? </h1>
Because today's society no longer needs to drink malt milk to supplement nutrition. In fact, since the 1990s, malt milk has not been sold as a nutritious drink, but as a common and delicious drink to attract children. And modern society does not need these calories of malt milk, people do not worry about eating and wearing, and even special baby food has introduced tricks.
The high calorie and high sugar content of malted milk is something that modern young people have been controlling. It can be said that malt milk creamer is no longer suitable for the tastes of modern society, so it has gradually been eliminated by people and has become a memory of the 80s and 90s.