Sucking the candy shell off of a single M&M would give you a much more intense chocolaty experience. It’s smooth, almost ‘slick’— and the uniquely sharp malt flavor is both arresting and distracting.
All tagged Gluten Free
Great Value Organic Reduced Fat Chocolate Milk
Salty, chocolaty, chalky, creamy— in that order— and a very pleasant overall experience. The salt definitely helps to preempt any would-be aftertaste undesirables, making each sip flow seamlessly to the next. Until there's no more.
Darigold Fat Free Chocolate Milk
Initially sweet with a (thankfully) fleeting earthiness to the cocoa flavor. Not bad for a skim version, but in the grand scheme of the chocolate milk universe, not good.
King Soopers Lactose Free Chocolate Milk
Not terribly sweet (in a good way) and the focus remains on its middle-of-the-road chocolate flavor that goes down with relative ease.
Kroger Slim Rite Milk Chocolate
Vitamin-like metallic scent, minimally serviceable cocoa flavor, and loads of sandy granules that you can crunch between your bicuspids. Perhaps the best feature is the 5g of fiber per bottle, which can further expedite the process of getting this out of your system.
Wegmans Organic Lowfat Chocolate Milk
Intriguing cocoa flavor that drops hints of sourness before vanishing into the ether. The taste is preferable to the texture, which is on the thicker/starchier side. All in all, a unique chocolate milk that is a pleasant addition to the under-served UHT market in the States.
Lactaid Whole Chocolate Milk
Very smooth, appropriately creamy, but lacking a cocoa punch. Instead, the flavor resembles an inoffensive, yet relatively uninspired cooked milk sweetness that fades in proportion with the sip-to-swallow process. You’re left with a clean finish that helps to warrant future consumption, facilitating the ‘getting used to’ process.
Organic Valley Breakfast Balance Dark Chocolate
Hollow and watery with the trademark Stevia-astringency, which remains remarkably difficult to hide. I’ve had much worse tasting things at this low-50s-calorie-per-100mL tranche, and I can’t deny the impressive attributes (organic, lactose free, gluten free, Fair Trade, high calcium, high(ish) protein)— but the flavor and drinking experience does not compare favorably to your average chocolate milk.
Fairlife Smart Snacks Rich Chocolate
The sweeteners seem to be in competition and ultimately dominate the experience. A honey-like note kicks off the sip, but by the end, you have a saliva-inducing essence plaguing your tongue. In the interim, there’s too much chalk and not enough cocoa to salvage a respectable score.
Shamrock Farms Rockin' Protein Recovery
Sweet, chocolaty, and decently (but not distractingly) chalky. There’s lots of flavor and it’s surprisingly well balanced— overall, one of the better tasting protein-fortified chocolate milks out there.
Nestle Quik Limited Edition Chocolate Milk
Sweet and chalky with a somewhat reluctant cocoa flavor hiding behind a more vanilla-laced sweetness. It doesn’t feel ‘milky’— it doesn’t taste ‘chocolaty’— but it does taste familiar.
Great Value Calcium Fortified Lowfat Chocolate Milk
Powdery texture veiled in a light (but sweet) caramel flavor. That actually reads better than it drinks.
Traderspoint Creamery Organic Chocolate Milk Shot
Dark, bold, mature cocoa flavor that is drinkable through the wondrous confluence of science and agriculture. It’s the perfect size (4.5oz / 135mL) for something so indulgent, in that it not only prevents over exposure, but it forces one to drink it slowly and truly appreciate the experience. The future of chocolate milk for adults, and perhaps the future of dessert itself.
United Dairy Chocolate Nonfat Milk
Has that sweet carton-y flavor that plagues many chocolate milks packaged in such a way. Basically, it’s like licking one of those colored greeting card envelopes that has a modicum of sweetness and otherwise industrial paper-like quality. I think I prefer the envelope.
United Dairy Nonfat Chocolate Milk
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.
United Dairy Lowfat Chocolate Milk
More of a ‘peanutty’ essence than that of chocolate— it’s salty, and very smooth. Not a bad experience, but one that is lacking cocoa flavor.
United Dairy Chocolate Milk
An under-chocolaty but otherwise fully competent whole chocolate milk. It disperses pleasantly and naturally, has a decent sweet/salty ratio, and has a good creamy taste.
Smith's Chocolate Milk
Creamy, salty, sweet, mildly chocolaty— in that order, and it’s enjoyable save for a fleeting quality to the flavor that feels a touch unnatural.
Smith's Old Fashioned Chocolate Milk
Mature arrangement of cream, cocoa, and muted sweetness that flourishes in the latter half of the sip and finishes clean— preparing you for the next draw without forcing you to rush.
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.