Malted chocolate drink

The malted chocolate drink is a powdered mix of malt extract, cocoa and sugar — sold under names like Milo, Ovaltine and Horlicks — that is stirred into hot or cold milk to make a sweet, faintly cereal-scented chocolate drink. It is defined by the toasty, biscuit-like flavour of barley malt sitting under the cocoa, which is what sets it apart from plain hot chocolate. Marketed for a century as a fortified, vitamin-enriched "tonic food" for children, athletes and the tired, it is globally ubiquitous — a bedtime cup in Britain, an iced breakfast staple in Australia and Southeast Asia, and a nostalgic comfort drink almost everywhere it is sold.