How healthy are the flavored milks?

Abstract

According to a report carried by daily nation newspaper on the 9th June 2013, the sixth Tetra Park Dairy Index highlights indicate a surge in the demand for ready-to-drink flavoured milk seemingly driven by busy, health and taste driven consumers. It is reported that the uptake of flavoured milk has been growing over the past few years, boosted by a combination of factors, including growth in consumer income, consumption of flavoured milk having grown by 59 per cent between 2012 and 2013. This growth has been driven by a growing middle class, with more and more children carrying flavoured milk to school. This report thus indicates that flavoured milk consumption is set to grow at more than double the rate of white milk globally between 2012 and 2015.