When we put sticky sports drinks in the bottle or brewed amino acids, it will become a hotbed of bacteria and mold. Through a few cleaning techniques, you can keep your bottle clean and avoid mold. And use it longer.

8 tips for you to easily clean the sports bottle

1. Warm water and detergent

Use warm water and detergent to clean, any general detergent or detergent will do.

2. Use a brush

Most of the kettle openings are relatively small, so use a long-handled brush like a bottle brush to brush to the inside and bottom. Using a brush will make it easier to remove the sticky residue and mold in the kettle, which cannot be washed away by just flushing.

3. Don't use vegetable cloth

Generally, the green vegetable cloth used for washing dishes will scratch the kettle and make it easier to hide dirt.

4. The lid needs to be washed

When you drink water, the liquid will pass through the nozzle, so don't forget to wash it too; it is recommended to put some detergent in the kettle, and then press the kettle to let the detergent flow out of the nozzle.

5. Wash every time you use it up

Just like you wash the glass every time you use it, the bicycle kettle should also be washed every time you use it. Even if you only drink water, there may be residues left on the mouthpiece of the kettle due to sweating or eating. It is easy to get moldy, so you should at least flush with water every time.

6. No strong lotion

If you feel that you need to use a stronger wash, such as bleach, then the kettle can almost be thrown into the recycling bin. And if it is not rinsed clean, it may contaminate the kettle instead.

7. Throw it away

Even with regular flushing, the kettle will inevitably hide dirt after using it for a long time. If the visual inspection finds that the dirt inside is not easy to remove, then it is almost time to replace the kettle.

8. Let the moisture air dry

After each wash, remember to open the lid and let the water dry naturally to prevent mold growth. Never put the lid on the bottle before it is dry.

The purchase points of a sports water bottle

1. The key to "sturdy and durable" is the pot body material and wall thickness

The material of the sports bottle is pure aluminum. As a large country of aluminum products, the USA has a complete range of products. In terms of material selection, each manufacturer has different materials. Many domestic water bottle brands use pure aluminum with a purity of 99.5%, but the actual situation is not the case. Even most manufacturers use recycled aluminum.

Another factor is the wall thickness of the water bottle, the wall thickness of a general sports water bottle is 0.7mm. Since it is difficult for ordinary consumers to distinguish the wall thickness of sports bottles, some manufacturers will speculatively reduce the wall thickness of the kettle to save materials to reduce costs. Some manufacturers even reduce the wall thickness to 0.5mm. An intuitive feeling for judging the thickness of the kettle wall is that if you compare it in your hand, the weight of the kettle with the thinner wall the thickness will be lighter.

If the purity of the aluminum material used for the sports water bottle is not high, or the wall thickness is cut corners, it is easy to dent, break, or even burst due to collision or falling during use. Generally, the higher the purity of the aluminum material used for sports bottles and the standard wall thickness, the better the strength and toughness of the sports water bottle, and the stronger the ability to resist collisions and impacts. Of course, the better the quality, the higher the cost and price.

2. The key to "safety and reliability" is the inner coating of the sports bottle

As we all know, excessive intake of aluminum will cause greater harm to human health. The inner coating of the sports water bottle solves the isolation problem: separate the water, juice, milk, coffee, and other beverages in the sports bottle from the aluminum body. Come.

The composition of the inner coating of the sports water bottle is more than 20% resin, about 1% additives, and the rest are solvents. The quality of the sports bottle is the most important determinant of whether it is safe and reliable. The first is whether the inner coating material itself is safe and will not cause harm to human health. In addition, the spraying quality of the inner coating inside the kettle is uniform and sticky. The attachment is firm and reaches the necessary thickness to ensure the reliability of the isolation between the beverage and the aluminum pot body.

Under the pressure of fierce export competition, to reduce costs and increase competitiveness, most domestic manufacturers currently choose low-priced coating materials and are limited in scale and strength, and its equipment and technology are difficult to guarantee the inner coating of sports bottles. The quality of spraying.

The inner coating of the sports bottle must meet food-grade hygiene requirements. However, due to the lack of supervision and testing, the current domestic sports bottle products, except for a few large-scale manufacturers, almost all of the inner coatings flooding the market with cheap products There are problems of varying degrees.

Generally, the lid of a sports bottle is composed of a lid and a gasket. In the process of use, because the quality of the general sports bottle is not too hard, the gasket will stick to the spout part due to the tightness of the screw and be squeezed for a long time, cold or hot temperature factors, and even detach from the lid, which will cause trouble in use. , Sometimes it will be lost and affect the reuse of the kettle.

A good sports bottle uses two-shot injection technology to directly integrate the gasket and the lid, which not only achieves a good sealing effect but also fundamentally eliminates the possibility of detachment.

The tightness of the spout depends on the degree of fit between the lid and the threads of the spout. If the degree of agreement is not high enough, water leakage may occur during normal use, which will cause a lot of inconveniences to use. Many people must have had some unpleasant experiences in this regard.

In addition, almost all sports water bottle spout threads have sharp edges. Although there are not many cases where fingers and lips are scratched, they still happen occasionally. A good sports bottle will have a more user-friendly processing and treatment, which is to make the edge of the thread into an arc, to eliminate the possibility of scratching your fingers and lips even with a very small probability.