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Re:Eat Real Food by troupo on Thursday January 08, 2026 @04:53AM (#46539231)
In a lot of schools "industrial equipment" is used to reheat frozen foods.

As for chicolate milk: there's probably as much added sugar in it as in a can of Cola. Definitely not something kids should consume daily.

Re:Eat Real Food by astura on Thursday January 08, 2026 @08:53AM (#46540952)
>As for chicolate milk: there's probably as much added sugar in it as in a can of Cola

There's no way this is true, so I looked up nutrition facts-

A 12oz can of coke has 39g added sugars and chocolate milk has 6 grams added sugars for the small cartons they have at schools.

This is the first chocolate milk I found - https://www.kleinpeterdairy.com/products/fresh-delicious-mil...

In other words, coke has more than six times the added sugar as chocolate milk in containers that they are readily available in.

Btw, Mountain Dew has 46 grams sugar per can.

Re:Eat Real Food by troupo on Thursday January 08, 2026 @08:58AM (#46541009)
According to https://www.usdairy.com/news-articles/how-much-sugar-is-in-m...

Milk Sugar Content (per 8 oz. serving): 24 grams sugar (12 grams natural sugar, 12 grams added sugar)

According to https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/food-types/how-does-su...:

    Adults should have no more than 30g of free sugars a day,
    (roughly equivalent to 7 sugar cubes).

    Children aged 7 to 10 should have no more than 24g
    of free sugars a day (6 sugar cubes).
So one small carton they have at school has 30% of an adult's daily intake of added sugar.
Re:Eat Real Food by astura on Thursday January 08, 2026 @09:02AM (#46541054)
What's your point? What does that have anything to do with the comment you're responding to?
Re:Eat Real Food by troupo on Thursday January 08, 2026 @09:11AM (#46541141)
My point is that no, chocolate milk isn't healthy at all.
Re:Eat Real Food by 5upplied_demand on Thursday January 08, 2026 @10:53AM (#46542436)
But that wasn't your point at all. You said:

> As for chicolate milk: there's probably as much added sugar in it as in a can of Cola.

Your own follow-up comment proved this to be false. No need to dig in further.

Re:Eat Real Food by troupo on Friday January 09, 2026 @02:09AM (#46550916)
My point is in this comment I originally posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46537927

And then my point was about the huge amount of added sugars.