Does Yoo-hoo Have Milk In It?

Question: Does Yoo-hoo have milk?

Answer: Yoo-hoo comes in chocolate and strawberry flavors. Yoo-hoo is considered a chocolate or strawberry drink and not chocolate or strawberry milk. This is because the two main ingredients are not milk but water and high fructose corn syrup. However, this does not mean that Yoo-hoo is dairy-free.

We have listed the ingredients of Yoo-hoo Chocolate and Yoo-hoo Strawberry below.  You will notice that there a few dairy ingredients listed. These ingredients include whey, nonfat dry milk, and sodium caseinate.

Chocolate Yoo-hoo Ingredients:
Water, high fructose corn syrup, whey (from milk) and less than 2% of: cocoa (alkali process), nonfat dry milk, natural and artificial flavors, sodium caseinate (from milk), corn syrup solids, calcium phosphate, dipotassium phosphate, palm oil, guar gum, xanthan gum, mono and diglycerides, salt, spice, soy lecithin, niacinamide (vitamin b3), sucralose, vitamin a palmitate, riboflavin (vitamin b2), vitamin d3

Strawberry Yoo-hoo Ingredients:
Water, high fructose corn syrup, whey (from milk) and less than 2% of: nonfat dry milk, natural and artificial flavors, sodium caseinate (from milk), corn syrup solids, calcium phosphate, dipotassium phosphate, palm oil, guar gum, xanthan gum, mono and diglycerides, salt, soy lecithin, sucralose, niacinamide (vitamin b3), vitamin a palmitate, riboflavin (vitamin b2), vitamin d3, red 40, blue 1, red 3

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