A Naturally Nutrient-Rich Choice

With calcium and eight other essential nutrients, flavored milks offer the same great nutrient-rich package as white milk. Today’s milk is offered in a variety of flavors such as orange cream, strawberry, vanilla, and of course, chocolate. Kids are flavor cravers and are more likely to drink milk when it’s flavored. The 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans recognize that small amounts of sugar added to nutrient dense foods, such as low-fat milk products, may increase a person’s intake of such foods by enhancing palatability of these products.

Research shows that children who consume flavored milk have greater total milk intake, less soft drink and fruit drink intake, compared with children who do not drink flavored milk.

Check out the following downloadable resources flavored milk plays in overall nutrition.

Milk Facts: A Science-Based PowerPoint

  • When flavored milk leaves the lunchroom, essential nutrients leave with it. The milk students drink is the milk that makes them healthy. This new science-based PowerPoint on flavored milk’s role in children’s diets is designed as a tool for school nutrition professionals to use with staff, parents and administrators. This PowerPoint is available by contacting Sarah Garrison at sgarrison@westerndairyassociation.org
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