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Flavored Milk
With calcium and eight other essential nutrients, flavored milk offers the same great nutrient-rich package as white milk and can help improve overall diets. Kids are in a calcium crisis, with more than half of children ages 2-8 and three-quarters of children ages 9-19 not getting the recommended daily servings of low-fat or fat-free milk or milk products. Flavored milk can help close the gap because children prefer it and will drink more milk when it's flavored.
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Flavored Milk! An Important Nutrient-Rich Choice
With calcium and eight other essential nutrients, flavored milk offers the same great nutrient-rich package as plain milk and can help improve overall diets.
Raise Your Hand for Chocolate Milk – I Do
Over the past couple weeks there has been growing buzz about flavored milk in schools. I am encouraged to see such an interest in reducing childhood obesity, but I'm concerned about the approaches being suggested...
Health Professional Organizations Support Flavored Milk to Meet Critical Nutrient Needs
All milk contains a unique combination of nutrients important for growth and development - including three of the five “nutrients of concern” for which children have inadequate intakes. And, flavored milk accounts for less than 3.5% of added sugar intake in children ages 6-12 and less than 2% in teens.
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The State of Flavored Milk in Schools
Milk companies across the U.S. are reformulating flavored milk to lower total calories, and decrease added sugars and fat, while preserving its nutritional value and taste appeal.
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The Truth About Flavored Milk
Some schools have made the decision to remove chocolate and other flavored milks from the cafeteria. Even though these bans have been well intentioned, they have done more nutritional harm than good. Lowfat chocolate milk is the most popular milk choice in schools and kids drink less milk – and get fewer essential nutrients – if it’s taken away.
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