(Food-Beverage-News.Com, May 26, 2013 ) London, UK -- The dairy industry has offered up a petition that would allow them to add aspartame and other artificial sweeteners to chocolate milk, but American nutritional groups highly criticising the decision.
The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics us urging the FDA to to reject the petition however, according to the group’s president Ethan Bergman, it isn’t doing so because of the safety of aspartame.
First off, children in schools are turning less to milk when given the choice of other drinks such as water and juice. In order to get kids to drink more milk, they want to add sweeteners to flavored milk like chocolate and strawberry. In essence, they want to change the identity of standard milk (raw milk, straight from a cow, is considered artificial milk), which basically defines the makeup of milk, to include aspartame and stevia.
According to some dairy companies, allowing low-calorie sweeteners would also help reduce the childhood obesity epidemic and promote healthy eating.
Instead, the AND says that flavored milk isn’t a major source of unneeded sugar in kid’s diets. In fact, studies have shown that kids who choose to drink milk, flavored or not, meet more of their nutritional needs than kids who don’t drink any type of milk.
The AND isn’t the only group criticizing the dairy industry. A group called a Sum of Us has started a petition, calling the dairy industry’s agenda to turn milk into another “artificial flavorladen sweet snack”. Currently, it has over 117,000 signatures.
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