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Chocolate milk boom
Forget Cocoa Puffs. Taylor Jarvis is cuckoo for chocolate milk.
“I drink it every day at lunch,” said Jarvis, 15, of Guilderland, a freshman at Notre Dame-Bishop Gibbons High School in Schenectady. “Pretty much every day at dinner. If I’m thirsty, I have a chocolate milk.”
Those are cool and creamy words for dairy and chocolate producers. They appreciate customers like Jarvis and others who include one of dairy’s two most famous chocolate products in their daily diets. Teens and athletes may not scoop chocolate ice cream for dessert every day, but they are willing to chug liquid chocolate. Posted on May 12, 2010.
Chocolate milk is more popular than ever, with athletes using it as a post-workout refresher.
Notre Dame-Bishop Gibbons sixth-grader Alison Lemme chugs a chocolate milk during lunch.
From left, Taylor Jarvis, Dan Bacchi and Jordan Pantalone, ND-BG high school students, are all fans of chocolate milk.
A completed pint of chocolate milk, foreground, passes bottles yet to be filled and sealed on the assembly line at the Stewart's Processing Plant.
From truck loading docks, all Stewart’s milk products, including are stored in tall silo tanks, then pasteurized, then restored into smaller horizontal tanks.
Gary Warren takes a break from his duties at the Stewart's Processing Plant in the town of Greenfield.
Chocolate is at the heart of this smoothie.
