Bournvita
is a brand of
malt
Malt is germinated cereal grain that has been dried in a process known as " malting". The grain is made to germinate by soaking in water and is then halted from germinating further by drying with hot air.
Malted grain is used to make beer, w ...
ed and chocolate malt drink mixes manufactured by
Cadbury, a subsidiary of
Mondelez International
Mondelez International, Inc. ( ), often styled Mondelēz, is an American multinational confectionery, food, holding and beverage and snack food company based in Chicago. Mondelez has an annual revenue of about $26 billion and operates in ...
.
It is sold in the United Kingdom
and North America, as well as India,
Nepal, Bangladesh, Nigeria,
Benin, and Togo. Bournvita was developed in England in the late 1920s and was marketed as a health food.
The original recipe included full-cream milk, fresh eggs, malt,edible
rennet casein
Casein ( , from Latin ''caseus'' "cheese") is a family of related phosphoproteins ( αS1, aS2, β, κ) that are commonly found in mammalian milk, comprising about 80% of the proteins in cow's milk and between 20% and 60% of the proteins in hum ...
and chocolate. It was first manufactured and sold in Australia in 1933. Bournvita was discontinued in the UK market in 2008. The drink was named by Cadbury which was derived from
Bournville, the
model village which is the site of the Cadbury factory (Bourn + Vita). It was first sold in India in 1948, the same year Cadbury India was established.
See also
*
List of chocolate drinks
Notes
References
External links
Cadbury Bournvita on FacebookProduct web page at Cadbury India
Chocolate drinks
Drink brands
Cadbury brands
Mondelez International brands
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