Flavored Milk
Although a variety of flavored milks (e.g., chocolate, vanilla, banana, orange, strawberry) are available locally and national, (chocolate milk is by far the most popular flavored milk).
Chocolate milk is milk to which chocolate or cocoa and sweetener has been added.
Similar to unflavored milks, chocolate milk has an excellent nutritional profile, providing significant amounts of high quantity protein, calcium, riboflavin, magnesium, phosphorus, niacin equivalent, vitamin B12, vitamin A and vitamin D, as well as several other essential nutrients.
Chocolate milk is a rich source of calcium. Each 8 once serving of chocolate milk provides 35 % of the 800 mg recommended for this nutrient for children 4 through 8, 23 % of the 1300 mg recommended for those 9 through 18 years, and 30 % of the 1000 mg recommended for adult 19 through 50.
The nutrient content of chocolate milk – whole, 1 % low fat, 2 % reduced-fat, and fat free (slim or nonfat) – is similar to that of the corresponding unflavored milk.
The main exceptions are the higher contents of carbohydrate and calories in chocolate in chocolate milk, due to the addition of sucrose and other nutrients sweeteners.
In general, chocolate flavored milks have about 60 calories more than their unflavored countered.
An 8 ounce serving of chocolate low fat (1 %) milk contains 158 calories, 2 % reduced fat chocolate milk contains 179 calories, and chocolate whole milk contains 206 calories.
Flavored Milk
