Study: Chocolate milk outperforms sports drink in strength test among young athletes
Chocolate milk was shown to have a more positive effect on strength development – demonstrating that it is an appropriate post-exercise recovery drink for adolescents.
In what is said to be the first-ever field-based study of high school athletes recovering post workout, chocolate milk outperformed commercial sports drinks by a net strength difference of 6.7%. The study was performed in 2018, and was initiated by Dairy MAX, Grand Prairie, Texas.
The research, published in the 2019 Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition, showed that high school athletes drinking chocolate milk lifted 3.5% more than before while the adolescents drinking a commercial sports drink lifted 3.2% less than before.