Last month, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended against fruit juice, which is high in sugar, for children under 1. "We shouldn't be offering sugared milk, just like we don't offer candy apples in schools." Dr. "With an epidemic of obesity in our country," she argues, "we shouldn't be offering sugared milk, just like we don't offer candy apples in schools." And then they're drinking it at home, in part because it becomes an expectation. "Sometimes they're drinking it two or three times a day at school, because there's breakfast, lunch, and then there's snack. Diane Dooley of the University of California, San Francisco. "The kids I see in my practice, who are all low-income, are not just drinking sugared, flavored milk once a day at school," says the letter's lead author, Dr. In late 2015, three professors published a letter of protest in the journal Pediatrics against an American Academy of Pediatrics school snack-and-drink policy that supported flavored milks. The chocolate milk fight has spread even into pediatrics. The federal Department of Agriculture, under President Trump, is clearly in favor of flavored milks: It announced last month that it would ease the requirement that they be fat-free, and allow schools to serve them with 1 percent fat, as part of the plan to " make school meals great again." 1: "Milk provides nutrients essential for good health and kids will drink more when it's flavored.") But there are also many who offer chocolate and flavored milks: As of a 2010 report in The New York Times, over 70 percent of milk consumed in American schools is flavored.Īt a school food conference at Harvard, where I asked Wiggins about chocolate milk, the information table also featured National Dairy Council flyers with headlines like " Top Five Reasons to Raise Your Hand for Flavored Milk." (Reason No. And there are fellow food service directors around the country who feel the same way I do." It's just a response, I believe, to the market.
"Chocolate milk is a treat," she adds, to be seen more as candy than a regular beverage. "I don't find it necessary to serve children chocolate milk," she says, "simply because of the sugar." Huh/AP) This article is more than 5 years old.īetti Wiggins, also known as the " rebel lunch lady," didn't do it in Detroit, where she revolutionized school food, and she doesn't do it now, as school nutrition chief in Houston. A container of chocolate milk sits on a table at Roslyn Road Elementary School in Barrington, Ill.
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