New milk break shakes up school meal menus

Published: 21 October, 2009

As schools remain under pressure to provide nutritional meals which appeal to children directly, yet are sensitive to pricing, unique products like Milk Break provide welcome solutions.

Milk Break is the first school compliant milkshake mix made with water rather than milk and joins the already highly successful Juice Break product, which has proven a major success in primary school catering.

Milk Break uses 100 per cent skimmed milk powder that is nutritionally equivalent to liquid milk and contains nothing artificial. Coming in the two most popular flavours of milkshake - strawberry and chocolate - it provides 62 per cent calcium and 48 per cent protein of the nutritional requirements of an average primary school lunch in just a 100ml serving.

As Milk Break only needs water to rehydrate the formula there are dramatic savings and benefits in storage and handling costs. For example, a single case of Milk Break equates to 52 pints of milk, with no heavy lifting, cooler and fridge space is saved and crucially in tests children rated the product as good as or better than more expensive milkshake solutions.

The new Milk Break drink comes in 2 x 2.5kg composites available to all local authorities.

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