About Non-Dairy Milk • Day care facilities on the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) are required to serve milk that provides the 9 nutrients listed below. • Animal milk (such as cow’s milk and goat’s 1 cup of milk must provide a minimum of: milk) naturally contains these nutrients. • Fortified non-dairy milk that contains these Nutrient Amount % Daily Value (DV) 9 nutrients is allowed with a Physician Calcium 276 mg 28% Statement for Food Substitution form signed Protein 8 g 16% by the child’s physician OR a Non-Dairy Milk Vitamin A 500 IU 10% Request Form signed by the child’s parent. Vitamin D 100 IU 25% • Non-dairy milk that does not meet the USDA nutrient standards (such as almond Magnesium 24 mg 6% or rice milk) is ONLY allowed when the child Phosphorus 222 mg 22% has a life threatening allergy or disability Potassium 349 mg 10% documented by a licensed physician. Riboflavin 0.44 mg 26% Vitamin B-12 1.1 mcg 18% Example: According to the nutrition label (6/2011), 8th Continent Original Soy Milk (plain or vanilla flavor only) provides the same nutrients as one glass of animal milk. Almond milk does not meet the minimum USDA CACFP requirements for milk. Example: Almond milk is Example: 8th Continent too low in protein, Blue Diamond potassium, Original Soy Milk “Almond Breeze” phosphorus, Almond Milk and magnesium. Vitamin B-12 and riboflavin are not listed at all.

Meets CACFP requirements!  X Does NOT meet  X requirements! X   Vitamin B-12 is       found in animal   products and X X Day Care Resources, Inc. B-12 fortified does not endorse any brand or product. Product names are non-dairy milk. given for example only. B-12 helps the brain and nervous system function.

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