H-E-B Chocolate Milk plastic bottle

Breakdown

3 ingredients to avoid

H-E-B Chocolate Milk plastic bottle scores 16/100 on Tallow — our avoid band. That number comes from what is on the label: the ingredients, how processed it is, and what it is packaged in. It is not a verdict on your diet — Tallow does not weigh calories, portion size or how often you eat it, so a high score means the ingredients are clean, not that the food is unlimited.

H-E-B Chocolate Milk plastic bottle lists 11 ingredients, starting with Reduced Fat Milk, Sugar, Cocoa Processed With Alkali, Salt and Carrageenan. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

At 16/100 H-E-B Chocolate Milk plastic bottle scores worse than most milk we have scored. A higher-scoring option in milk is Organic Valley Organic Milk at 100/100.