On Chocolate Milk Health Benefits: Is It Healthy?
Little did we know that such a great, interesting debate was taking place on the subject of chocolate milk until we came across the site of Chef Ann Cooper, Renegade Lunch Lady.
According to many, including the National Dairy Council, white milk is healthy. But chocolate milk? The organization seems to think so. However, the chocolate “flavoring” in chocolate milk amounts to a considerable amount of added sugar, and certainly none of the health benefits we’ve come to learn about from chocolate. Chef Ann Cooper in Boulder, Colorado managed to get chocolate milk banned from schools. Since the sugar in chocolate milk can lead to unhealthy weight gain in children, as well as obesity and diabetes, this seems to make a lot of sense. Yet this is an unpopular sentiment, at least among some celebrities and the National Dairy Council who suggest chocolate milk is just as healthy as white milk.
Here’s the pro-chocolate milk stance:
“Chocolate milk lovers worldwide dismiss the anti-chocolate milk sentiment as something between an annoyance and an assault on baseball and apple pie. “Kids drink it,” they keep saying, “kids like it.” The subtext: otherwise they’d drink something like Sunny Delight, or soda, with 20 to 25 teaspoons of sugar per eight-ounce serving (and, typically consumed in 12-ounce portions). And the nutrients in milk, including calcium, Vitamin A and potassium, are among those which are often deficient among children.”
Chef Ann Cooper : Renegade Lunch Lady » Great Blog on Chocolate Milk!.
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