Flavored Milk

Nutritional Benefits: Top 5 Reasons to Raise Your Hand for Flavored Milk

Top 5 Reasons to Raise Your Hand for Flavored Milk

  1. Milk provides nutrients essential for good health and kids will drink more when it’s flavored.
     
  2. Flavored milk contains the same nine essential nutrients as white milk and is a healthful alternative to soft drinks
     
  3. Drinking low-fat or fat-free white or flavored milk helps kids get the 3 daily servings of milk recommended by the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, and provides three of the five “nutrients of concern” that children do not get enough of – calcium, potassium and magnesium as well as vitamin D.
     
  4. Children who drink flavored milk meet more of their nutrient needs; do not consume more added sugar, fat or calories; and are not heavier than non-milk drinkers.
     
  5. Low-fat chocolate milk is the most popular milk choice in schools and kids drink less milk (and get fewer nutrients) if it’s taken away.

For additional information, download the informative handouts, Top 5 Reasons to Raise Your Hand for Flavored Milk.

Student Consumption: Nutrients Down the Drain

“The children will drink the 1% chocolate milk. 80% of our students will stop drinking milk if we eliminate chocolate as a choice … the Committee eliminated chocolate at the request of the Administration. Most of the milk went directly to the trash can. I re-added chocolate as a choice and they started drinking again.”

Click here for the full report, “Milk PEP Flavored Milk Study”.

For additional information on student consumption, “The Removal of Flavored Milk in Schools Results in a Total Decline in Milk Purchases for All Grades K-12”. 

Fact Sheets

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