The BP wants chocolate milk out of public schools
It’s Friday, and Brooklyn Borough President and mayoral hopeful Eric Adams wants you to know that he is on board with the effort to ban chocolate milk from the city’s public schools.
In a video (called “Chocolate Milk: Do the Math”) sent out from Adams’ office Friday afternoon, the BP sits at a table measuring out the sugar contents of a tall glass of chocolate milk. In a voiceover, he tells the viewer that “while this [ban] might sound extreme to some people, the stats say differently.”
One glass of chocolate milk, Adams demonstrates, comes out to three to four teaspoons of sugar. The American Heart Association, however, recommends that children consume no more than six teaspoons of added sugar a day.