Ovaltine Chocolate Light

Ovaltine is a traditional drink that combines malt and eggs, amongst other things, to provide nutrition at the same time as taste and flavour. Adding chocolate to it gives a kind of quirky chocolate taste, very much like hot chocolate but with a different aftertaste. Maybe it's the eggs. Light Ovaltine Chocolate has a nice blend of barley malt and cocoa, which has been carefully formulated to become what many people see as the ultimate in bedtime drinks. Its nutritional qualities speak for themselves, with its vitamins and minerals providing around 20% of your RDA (Recommended Daily Allowance). The plastic jar of Ovaltine is dumpy, so that it's ...  Read the complete review

I have fond memories of drinking Ovaltine as a child, particularly at Christmas (I even liked it on it’s own straight from the jar!). I can remember having a hot cup of Ovaltine on Christmas Eve and looking back it was probably a plan by my parents to get my sister and me to go to sleep early so the presents were under the tree in the morning. . . I never did hear Father Christmas on the roof of our house!! I blame it on the Ovaltine for making me sleepy!! So a few weeks ago I bought Ovaltine Chocolate, as I fancied a nice milky drink, and any drink with chocolate in it is a bonus! Previously known as Ovaltine Light, Ovaltine Chocolate Light is an instant ...  Read the complete review

Once upon a time, there lived a terribly clever Swiss scientist called Dr George Wander. Dr Wander was a chemist who spent his days investigating the nutritional qualities of barley malt; perhaps not the most exciting of activities, but I guess thrilling entertainment must have been a bit thin on the ground in 1904. As it happened though, this rather dull pursuit was to lead to a useful discovery. You see, on one particular day, the chemist suddenly realised the dietary potential of the complex carbohydrates and vitamins in barley malt. When the clever chap combined the malt with eggs, he invented the World’s first nutritional drink, which he named “Ovomaltine”. ...  Read the complete review

When I was a child I remember my grandparents and greatgrandmother drinking Ovaltine, so I have fond memories of it. The smell and taste is very comforting and sleep inducing. As an adult, I drank it occasionally, but not that often, until I discovered Light Ovaltine Chocolate Flavour. The packaging design of the jar I bought is slightly different to the one shown above, but the jar is exactly the same shape. When I was in Tesco's recently, I looked in the hot drinks section for a chocolate based drink to buy and came across Ovaltine Light Chocolate. I had bought it a couple of years ago and liked it, so decided to get some more. It cost £1.86 for a plastic ...  Read the complete review