Is there actually milk in milk chocolate M&Ms?

I can only answer this briefly, but milk chocolate is actually mostly milk and sugar anyway. Way back in the seventeenth century, Dutch merchants who brought chocolate back from the Americas mostly consumed it as a cold drink. Healthy, but bitter. So they tried heating it, but the drink always tasted too fatty. read more

The term 'Milk Chocolate' refers to a sweet & mellow flavored product compared to 'Dark Chocolate'. Whether Milk is actually used as an ingredient doesn't matter so much these days - it's the taste. read more

As a result, milk chocolate tastes creamier than dark chocolate. In the U.S., milk chocolate needs to contain 10 percent pure chocolate. White Chocolate: White chocolate is a type of confection made of sugar, milk, cocoa butter and sometimes vanilla. read more

When cows are milked, sometimes there is a great deal of blood that comes out along with the milk. This tainted milk is non-salable, except to the makers of pre-packaged chocolate milk, since the cocoa hides the blood. read more