Chocolate Flavored Toddler Formula

Chocolate-flavored toddler formula criticized by nutritionists.
The Los Angeles Times (5/6, Wernau) reported that "nutritionists are criticizing a new formula for toddlers that comes in chocolate and vanilla flavors as an early start to obesity." Nutrition professor Marion Nestle, of New York University, even "complained to the US Food and Drug Administration, arguing that the product is claiming health benefits for children younger than two," but "FDA spokesman Michael Herndon said the product is considered a food and not an infant formula under FDA guidelines and does not appear to be in violation of the law as it doesn't claim to 'cure' anything, only to 'support' normal body functions." What's more, the Mead Johnson Nutrition Co. maintains its products are "no sweeter than chocolate milk or orange juice that toddlers drink and contain added nutrients that milk lacks."