MILK:
Powering
your kid’s day
With essential nutrients including calcium, protein and vitamin D, milk is an ideal way to keep your kids going strong, all day every day.
MILK:
Powering
your kid’s day
With essential nutrients including calcium, protein and vitamin D, milk is the ideal way to keep your kids going strong, all day every day.
Scroll below to discover some of the ways milk can help fuel your kids through their critical growth years and beyond.
CALCIUM
For Strong Bones
Help your kids build strong bones with milk – it provides an excellent source of calcium for your child. Milk's calcium is the perfect way to support strong bones.
Protein
For STRONG MUSCLES
In each 8-fluid ounce glass of white milk, your child is consuming eight grams of high-quality protein — without added sugars. As part of a balanced healthy diet, protein helps your child build muscle and maintain strong bones.
Protein
For STRONG MUSCLES
In each 8-fluid ounce glass of white milk, your child is consuming eight grams of high-quality protein — without added sugars. As part of a balanced healthy diet, protein helps your child build muscle and maintain strong bones.
Essential Nutrients
For Your Kid's Health
Milk contains eleven nutrients* that support your kids in growing healthy and strong.
*Eleven nutrients: calcium, protein, vitamin D, vitamin A, phosphorus, iodine, selenium, riboflavin (vitamin B2), niacin (vitamin B3), pantothenic acid (vitamin B5), vitamin B12.
- Higher Longitudinal Milk Intakes Are Associated with Increased Height in a Birth Cohort Followed for 17 Years.
- Does Milk Make Children Grow? Relationships Between Milk Consumption and Height in NHANES 1999-2002.
- Two-Year Changes in Bone and Body Composition In Young Children with a History of Prolonged Milk Avoidance.
- Children Who Avoid Drinking Cow’s Milk Are at Increased Risk for Prepubertal Bone Fractures.
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