Ovaltine Chocolate Light (Ovaltine Chocolate Light)

Member Name: jacqueline101

Product:	Ovaltine Chocolate Light
Date:	26/10/08 (92 review reads)
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Advantages: Tastes good, added vitamins and minerals

Disadvantages: None

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 jar containing 300g, enough for 15 servings.

To make the drink, you put four heaped teaspoons of Ovaltine Light into a cup and add 200ml of hot water and stir. It is classed as a low fat product, and one serving contains 74 calories, 1.2g of fat and14.2g of carbohydrates (1.5g of which sugars). The fat content per 100g is 5.9g, with 5.2g of saturates. It contains sugar, fat reduced cocoa powder and sweeteners, as well as whey powder and barley malt extract. For those with allergies, it contains milk, barley gluten and egg. It would not be suitable for vegans due to the egg.

One of the good things about Ovaltine products is that they contain essential vitamins and minerals - fourteen in fact, from Vitamin A through to Zinc. This is good for people who are not eating well, have a small appetite or are recovering from illness, and may be deficient in some vitamins and minerals, as they can get some of their nutrients from a cup of Ovaltine. A 200ml cupful provides around a fifth of the recommended daily allowance of the vitamins and minerals that are listed.

I usually have a cup of Ovaltine Light Chocolate in the evening, and I think that it has a really delicious chocolatey flavour, as well as having the added benefits of the vitamins and minerals. I shall be buying this again in the future.

Summary: Ovaltine Chocolate Light