Chocolate Milk
© Denzil Green
Chocolate Milk is sweetened, chocolate flavoured milk drink.
You can buy it already made up, ready to drink, in cartoons in chillers at stores, or you can mix up your own by adding a sweetened chocolate syrup or powder.
Commercial ready-to-drink Chocolate Milk is usually based on skim milk, and thickened with carrageen (“seaweed”.)
Nutrition
Chocolate Milk may be as good a post-exercise drink as other commercial sports drinks, because it has an optimal carbohydrate to protein ratio. [1], [2].
Storage Hints
The ready to drink cartons must be treated like regular milk in terms of refrigeration requirements.
Sources
[1] Barclay, Laurie. Chocolate Milk May Improve Recovery After Exercise. Medscape Medical News. 27 February 2006.
[2] Chocolate milk ‘just as good as sports drinks’ for athletes. Manchester: The Guardian. 4 June 2009.