Bland and unoffensive, very smooth and drinkable for a nonfat chocolate milk. It’s hard to get excited about it, but there are much worse skim options out there that try too hard to be something they are not.
All tagged 3.0
Smith's Chocolate Low Fat Milk
Rather bland with a nearly minty essence to the latter half of the sip. Reminiscent of that emoji that has the flat horizontal lines for its eyes and mouth.
Toft's Nonfat Chocolate Milk
Boringly flat, otherwise relatively unoffensive for nonfat chocolate milk. There’s no curious flavors (good or bad), and drinking any more than a thimbleful is likely to be unsatisfying.
Lamers Dairy Fat Free Chocolate Milk
Sweet, dusty cocoa taste with a chalky conclusion, this is far from the worst fat free chocolate milk I’ve had. It’s palatable in small amounts, and gets better with repetition, yet still far from something you’d reach for to serve hedonistic pursuits.
Anderson Erickson Fat Free Chocolate Milk
Mild and slightly earthy, with a body more syrupy-feeling than milky. Less offensive than many other fat free chocolate milks I’ve begrudgingly swilled.
Crystal Cool Cow Lowfat Chocolate Milk
Syrupy sweetness that bleeds into the texture as well, morphing it into a sticky, sugary concoction that should reside closer to the candy aisle than the dairy case.
Vita Low Sugar Chocolate Milk
In spite of its ‘low sugar’ assertion, this tastes distractingly too sweet— and there's a synthetic feel to it that heightens imbalance. Also present is the sourness of the ‘normal’ UHT version, which doesn't work to its advantage here.
Milk Magic Chocolate Milk Drink
More of a ‘light' flavor— not quite ‘bland’— but not far from it. It’s thin and feels milky upfront, but finishes more on the watery side. It exudes that ‘artificial chocolate’ flavor that reminds me of how paint thinner smells— not necessarily unpleasant, but not something your tastebuds will crave.
Hay Dairies Chocolate Goat Milk
It's hard to tell that this is sweetened at all— or ‘chocolate’ for that matter. I’ve never had straight goat milk, but now I feel that I have. Not the worst thing under the sun, but aside from a mild ‘game’ flavor and an equally mild ‘malt’ flavor— there’s very little here to taste. It’s very thin, and separates quickly— otherwise you wouldn't believe that it was ‘chocolate goat milk.’
Goodday Chocolate Milk (UHT)
Smooth with a chalky finish— the cocoa flavor definitely steers into a rum-like direction, which is not what I’m looking for in chocolate milk.
Dutch Lady Milky Chocolate Milk (box)
Relatively smooth, but tastes like a fortified drink to an extent— there’s a minor vitamin-enhanced-metallic bent to the flavor that is not necessarily distracting, but just as prominent as the (still weak) cocoa flavor. A few straw-lengths and the tiny box is depleted, much like your desire to siphon 125mL more.
Nippy's Iced Chocolate Milk (UHT box)
Record-scratchingly bland— it’s sporting ‘business casual’ to a Halloween rave. Nothing is offensive here, just rather pointless— especially if you’re expecting flavor in proportion to the chocolate chunks that abound on the package.
Fresh Delight Hokkaido Flavor Chocolate Milk
Chocolate is the primary flavor, but it comes across as flat and uninteresting, and then washes out fairly quickly. You take another sip, and come to the exact same conclusion. It could use a stern punch of salt, sweetness, malt, or any combination thereof.
Fit & Active Weight Loss Shake Chocolate
Gritty texture and slightly metallic flavor, but behind all that is an above average tasting fortified drink. The chocolate flavor is definitely present and becomes more prominent the more you get used to the undesirables.
Fairlife Smart Milkshakes Chocolate
Smooth and sweet— but I taste more stevia than honey. It’s not as blatant as some of the other Fairlife products, but neither is the chocolate presence. It could use a heavier dose of salt to bring out the cream, as it’s lacking flavor dimensionality.
Nestle Nesquik Chocolate Milk (Canada)
Relatively bland and boring— more sweetness than any other quality and feels empty during and after each swallow. It’s smooth and milky enough such that it doesn’t feel unnatural, just uninteresting.
Neilson Chocolate Milk 25% Less Sugar
Surprising that it's only 25% less sugar, and not 100% less-- as there’s startlingly low sweetness, especially when sampled after normal chocolate milk. It manages to avoid tasting bitter, however, it avoids tasting like much of anything at all. Not offensive, but feels rather pointless.
San Marcos Lechita Chocolate
Milky smooth, and dominated by a ‘nutmeggy’ flavor that would have most people guessing ‘egg nog’ in a blindfolded trial. It’s much thinner than traditional egg nog, and is plenty sweet to feel desserty, but packaging and appearance aside, this isn’t quite chocolate milk.
Alpura Vaquitas Chocolate
Sweet, yet fairly bland with a lightly nutty flavor in place of chocolate. The texture is close-but-not-quite milky; there's a powdery component that is perhaps from the rehydration process.
Milsani Milk Shake Saveur Cacao
Plenty sweet and chocolaty, but the texture is way over thickened— another failed attempt of emulating ‘creaminess’ does a more efficient job of hiding the creaminess the product might otherwise exhibit.