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Chocolate milk, is a drink concocted from milk, cocoa (often processed with alkali), sweeteners (usually sugar, dextrose, or high fructose corn syrup), and sometimes other ingredients including starch, salt, carrageenan, vanilla, and artificial flavoring. This mixture should be stored at 0.5 to 4 °C (33 to 39 °F). At home, chocolate milk can also be prepared by stirring a commercial chocolate syrup (1:2) or powder into milk, for immediate consumption. In Israel, a popular way to drink chocolate milk is out of a small plastic bag. A cousin of the traditional juicebox, "shoco-bi'sakit" is portable and convenient. However, unlike its straw-utilizing cousin, shoco-bi'sakit is enjoyed by biting a corner of the bag, and sucking through the small tear. Chocolate milk has been suggested for use after intense workouts for its "magic ratio" of carbohydrates to protein, among other nutritional properties. For this same reason, it is also an excellent hangover remedy. Chocolate milk has also been employed as a demographic metaphor (e.g., Chocolate City speech).
As a product of hot chocolate Chocolate milk is, basically, a cold version of its brother hot chocolate. Sometimes companies sell chocolate milk gallons saying 'Try Me HOT!', indicating that in that particular gallon, you may be able to have chocolate milk or hot chocolate. Companies which sell chocolate milk Calcium myth Because milk is a high source of calcium, it is logical that chocolate milk would also be a high source of calcium. However, drinking chocolate milk will prevent the proper absoption of calcium due to the reactions with oxalic acid forming a salt that cannot be metabolized. See also | ||||||||
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