Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative and the NMPF applauded an announcement last week by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that schools will continue to be allowed to offer flavored low-fat milk for at least the next two years.
Tetra Pak has identified the ready-to-drink (RTD) flavoured milk category as a “strong vehicle” to help the dairy industry move towards “profitability” and away from its reliance on commodity products.
Permitting the use “any safe and suitable” sweeteners - including aspartame - in milk flavouring ingredients would help to stem the current milk consumption decline in US schools, the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) has claimed.
Flavoured milk drinks have become engrossed in a US debate over combating obesity through taxation, with chocolate and strawberry sweetened dairy drinks facing inclusion in a proposed bill.
Children who drink flavoured milk are less likely to drink
carbonated soft drinks than those who do not, while at the same
time improving their nutritional intake, new research shows.
Children who drink flavoured milk drink more milk and therefore
have higher calcium intakes than those who do not, finds a study
published this week. And contrary to popular belief, the beverages
do not raise levels of fat and sugar...
