Much saltier and more flavorful than other TruMoo products I've had— perhaps that is a big part of what they were missing. Chocolate isn’t too prominent, but a strong maltiness is well executed and a pleasure to drink.
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Lidl Chocolate Milk
One of the most generic-looking packages I've seen, but the taste is actually quite punchy— lots of sweetness, adequate cocoa, decent amount of salt, and an almost caramel-y finish that works pretty well.
TruMoo PET Chocolate Whole Milk
Rich experience that could benefit from stronger cocoa flavor, but the proportions work well enough to warrant future pursuit.
Maola by Marva Maid Chocolate Lowfat Milk (1.89L)
There's something off about the texture— it’s fairly smooth but feels like it refuses to disperse naturally. It’s moderately sweet but has no other distinguishable flavors going on.
Sealtest Chocolate Milk
Very well rounded and carries a noticeable maltiness that brings each sip to a satisfying conclusion.
Hershey's 2% Reduced Fat Chocolate Milk (325mL UHT)
Solid chocolate flavor delivered through a nicely thin, creamy medium. There is a bit of grain throughout, but it does not detract from the tasty experience. Strong across the board.
TruMoo Mayfield 1% Chocolate Milk
Straightforward, slightly on the bland side, but competent 1% chocolate milk with little to write home or complain about.
Reed's Gourmet Chocolate Milk
Fantastic chocolate flavor and salty/sweet levels. The texture is quite thick and has lots of particulates that will adhere to the inside of the glass (it has potato flakes in it). From a taste standpoint, it’s outstanding, I wish the texture were a bit thinner/smoother. Minor gripe.
Food Lion Chocolate Milk
Salty, sweet, creamy, malty— all around a very tasty experience. Chocolate may be the least prominent feature of the drink, but the others are great so you won’t care too much.
Yup Double Chocolate Low Fat Ultra-Filtered Milk
Strong overall flavor, and a lot of what I get is sweetness, which is not what you’d expect from a ’25% less sugar’ product. I suspect the monk fruit extract, which is 150-200x sweeter than sugar, is a bit overplayed here, upstaging the ‘double chocolate’ element.
Rumble SuperShake Dutch Cocoa
If ‘potting soil’ and ‘paint thinner’ had a baby, this would be the amniotic fluid. This isn’t really chocolate milk in the purest sense, it’s definitely a ‘health shake’— and it may deliver on that, but if it’s taste you’re after, spread garbage disposal gleanings on a cracker instead.
Hershey's Cookies 'n' Creme Flavored Milk Shake
Tons of flavor, about as sweet as one could stomach, yet it still tastes pretty good. If you melted cookies ’n’ creme ice cream, strained out the solid bits, and thinned out the texture-- this is pretty much what you'd get. It’s not disappointing from that perspective.
Schroeder Chocolate Lowfat Milk
Pleasantly smooth, silky feel, and a medium-sweet, lightly malty flavor highlight the experience. It satisfies in a pinch, but the goal is not to find oneself in said pinch.
Kemps Select Chocolate Reduced Fat Milk
Satisfyingly creamy, malty, and chocolaty, and it does well to avoid over-sweetness. Much more enjoyable than the lowfat version.
Kemps Select Chocolate Lowfat Milk
Compositionally the same (?) as the Hy-Vee 1% Chocolate Lowfat Milk— and the same salty-and-not-much-else flavor. Sadly, I prefer the flavor of the Kemps Swiss Style Chocolate Lowfat Milk that had high fructose corn syrup and artificial flavor.
Hy-Vee Chocolate 1% Lowfat Milk
A bit too sweet, but paired with decent chocolate flavor and slightly thinner texture nudges it just above average for me.
Hy-Vee Chocolate Whole Milk
Strong flavors across the board, and the only drawback is a heavy, syrupy sweetness that you can feel in your throat post-swallow. A relatively minor gripe, but noticeable.
Hy-Vee 1% Chocolate Lowfat Milk
Salty at first taste, and not much else afterward. There’s not much sweetness, but what is there tastes artificial. Largely bland and unexciting.
Valley View Farms Chocolate Milk Shake
Incredibly thick— which is the only drawback I can find (albeit a big one). The flavor is sweet but not too lopsided, if it were much thinner, it would score a lot higher. Fans of the super-thick would enjoy. [Note: I’m pretty sure it’s not 68 calories per 100mL as the label suggests. I followed up with the company on 26-Jun-2017 and they replied that they are in the process of updating the label.]
Valley View Farms Chocolate Lowfat Milk
Texture feels unnatural and not entirely ‘milky.’ The flavor skews toward malty and is otherwise bland and uninteresting.