Chocolate goodness! (Ovaltine Chocolate Light)

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Product:	Ovaltine Chocolate Light
Date:	26/04/09 (121 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Nice, soothing smell and taste

Disadvantages: Too much is a bit sickly

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 almost a tub. Four heaped teaspoons into a mug with added hot water is all that is necessary to make this into a lovely hot chocolate drink. The smell hits you instantly as you combine the fine powder with the water, and the barley malt is actually a lot stronger than the chocolate, breaking through and adding an almost sweeter smell to the drink.

The taste is similar to the smell, with the chocolate seemingly taking a back seat. However, the aftertaste is all chocolate, and quite rich with it. I find that this rich flavour means that one mug is quite enough, and having too much of it in one go can end up being quite sickly. I have to admit, it's not my favourite hot chocolate drink, but then it was originally formulated as a health drink, and not necessarily as something particularly flavoursome. This came later.

Ultimately, it is a good drink, just not my favourite. The nutritional qualities are there, with a plethora of vitamins provided for, as well as calcium, iron and zinc, and one mug gives you 74 calories. Its 'light' factor means that the sugar content is reduced, and the cals are theoretically kept lower, although there are hot choc drinks with less calories out there.

This Light Ovaltine Chocolate is available in many places. I got my 300g tub/jar for just under the £2 mark a while back, and you can get 15 serving sout of it. I recommend giving it a go, although too much is a bit sickly.

Summary: Good hot choc drink that is nutritional, too