Get the Facts on Chocolate Milk

• A combination of carbohydrates and protein to refuel and repair muscles
• Fluids to rehydrate
• Electrolytes to replenish what is lost in sweat
• It has the added bonus of bone-building nutrients, like calcium, to help maintain strong bones and prevent stress fractures.

Recent studies have shown the nine essential nutrients in low-fat chocolate milk make it an ideal drink after intense exercise, including marathon and triathlon training and competition.

The role of essential nutrients in chocolate milk are important for function and performance:

• Build and maintain strong bones and teeth (calcium, vitamin D, and phosphorus)
• Promote normal blood pressure (calcium and potassium)
• Help convert food into energy (riboflavin and niacin)
• Play a role in the development and maintenance of the central nervous system (riboflavin and vitamin B12)
• Help build and maintain lean muscle (protein)
• Help build red blood cells (vitamin B12)
• Help regulate the balance of fluids in the body (potassium)
• Promote good vision (vitamin A)
• Promote healthy skin (vitamin A)
• Promote a healthy immune system (vitamin A)

Flavored Milk: The Perfect Recipe to Refuel

DairyFoods.com – World-renowned sports nutritionist says, “Just drink it.”

Milk! Nature’s Sports Drink

National Dairy Council – Adding milk to your post-workout plan can benefit your body because it supplies many of the key nutrients needed as part of a daily training diet.

Science of chocolate milk as recovery drink

The National Milk Processor Promotion Board – Low-fat chocolate milk naturally has many of the nutrients most commercial recovery drinks have to add in the lab – including high-quality protein and key electrolytes like calcium, potassium, sodium, and magnesium.