Chocolate Milk: Energy Drink of The Future?

We all know that it is very simple to walk into the local gas station and buy an energy drink. Relatively cheap, packs a punch, and gives us that little buzz that keeps us going for our next few hours or so. What you don’t know is what is seriously going into your body. The truth is, recent studies are showing that Chocolate Milk serves as much purpose as an energy drink.

I’m going to quickly compare some stats on a well known energy drink: Monster, verses the stats on a glass of Dean’s Chocolate Milk. Firstly, when sold in regular containers, a slightly unknown fact is that when you drink an entire monster, you are actually drinking two servings. What the Monster company doesn’t want you knowing is that, in order to get as much energy as they promise, you must drink two servings of their product. It’s very easy to go to a local market and simply pick a single can of Monster up, however one can equals two servings. To get the same energy given in monster, a single glass of Dean’s Chocolate Milk is necessary.

Next, Dean’s Chocolate Milk has 150 calories per every serving, however Monster only gives you 100 calories per serving. Now your catching on, if you drink two servings (Remember, One can), your packing in 200 calories, 50 more unnecessary ones than Chocolate Milk.

Thirdly, Chocolate Milk features only natural sugar from the Cocoa, and from the milk. Monster is providing you with 27g of processed sugar in every serving. That’s a whopping 54 grams per can. To put that in prospective, a McDonald’s Big Mac only has 9 grams of sugar per serving. Ouch.

There are 170 grams of sodium in every glass of Dean’s Chocolate Milk, compared to the 180 featured in every serving of Monster. Again, 360g of sodium is contained in every Monster can. On top of that, 30% of Chocolate milk is calcium. Calcium is needed to grow muscles and bones, your own “Muscle Milk” per say. Monster energy substitutes their calcium with Taurine, Panax Ginseng, and their own “Energy Blend”. Monster also gives you L-Carnitine, Glucose, Caffeine, Guarana, Inositol, Glucuronolactone, and Maltodexterin. Remember, if you can’t pronounce it, it’s probably not best to consume. Would you even want to take the chance of finding out whats in the “Energy Blend” compared to taking a mineral your body needs in the milk?

There are 8 grams of protein in each glass of chocolate milk, while Monster doesn’t have any. There are also Vitamins A, C, D, and some essential Iron featured in chocolate milk. Monster settles for four (4) types of Vitamin B.

Chocolate Milk is clearly the choice if you are deciding on what you’re going to have on your way to work, and although Chocolate Milk doesn’t give you that ‘buzz’ to get you through the day, it is much more worth it to have essential vitamins to enhance your day with. So choose a glass of Chocolate Milk today, compared to the vial substitute.