Flavored milk can play a healthy role in your family’s diet. Chocolate milk has the same 13 essential nutrients as white milk, but if your child won’t drink enough milk – they can’t get those nutrients!
School Nutrition Standards – Milk
Under the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2025, schools participating in the National School Lunch Program may offer a wider variety of milk options, including whole milk, reduced-fat (2%), low-fat (1%), and fat-free (skim) milk, flavored or unflavored, as part of reimbursable lunches. For school breakfasts, schools may continue to offer fat-free and low-fat (1%) milk, flavored or unflavored, that meet USDA nutrition standards. Unflavored milk must be offered at each meal service, and flavored milk must comply with current USDA added sugars limits.
Fat-free and low-fat milk, flavored and unflavored, may also be offered to participants ages 6 and older in the Special Milk Program (SMP) and the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP).
Is Flavored Milk Good for Kids?
Milk is the number one source of 3 of the 4 nutrients most kids are lacking: vitamin D, calcium, and potassium. These are key nutrients for children’s development and growth and flavored milk is a delicious and affordable way to get them.
