Ovaltine is a brand of
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flavoring product made with
maltMalt is germinated cereal grains that have been dried in a process known as "malting". The grains are made to germinate by soaking in water, and are then halted from germinating further by drying with hot air...
extract (except the blue packaging in the US),
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(except in Switzerland),
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, and
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. Ovaltine, a registered
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of
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, is made by Wander AG, a subsidiary of
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which acquired the brand from
NovartisNovartis International AG is a multinational pharmaceutical company based in Basel, Switzerland, ranking number three in sales among the world-wide industry...
in 2003, except in the United States, where
NestléNestlé S.A. is the world's largest food and nutrition company. Founded and headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland, Nestlé originated in a 1905 merger of the Anglo-Swiss Milk Company, established in 1867 by brothers George Page and Charles Page, and Farine Lactée Henri Nestlé, founded in 1866 by Henri...
acquired the rights separately from Novartis later on.
History
Ovaltine was developed in Berne, Switzerland, where it is known by its original name,
Ovomaltine (from
ovum, Latin for "egg", and
malt, originally its main ingredients). Soon after invention the factory moved out to the village of
NeueneggNeuenegg is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.-History:Neuenegg is first mentioned in 1228 as Nuneca. In 1235 it was mentioned as Nuwenegge....
a few kilometres west of Berne, where it is still produced.
Ovomaltine was exported to Britain in 1909; it was a misspelling in the trademark registration that led to the name being shortened to
Ovaltine in English-speaking markets. A factory was built in
Kings LangleyKings Langley is a historic English village and civil parish northwest of central London on the southern edge of the Chiltern Hills and now part of the London commuter belt. The major western portion lies in the borough of Dacorum and the east is in the Three Rivers district, both in the county of...
which exported to the United States as well. By 1915 Ovaltine was being manufactured in
Villa Park, IllinoisVilla Park is a suburb of Chicago in DuPage County, Illinois. The population was 22,075 at the 2000 census. A special census in 2003 set the population at 22,517...
, for the US market. Originally advertised as consisting solely of "malt, milk, eggs, flavored with cocoa", the formulation has changed over the decades, and today several formulations are sold in different parts of the world. In the US, after purchasing the US rights, Nestlé changed the formulation bringing its flavor profile very close to that of another Nestlé chocolate milk flavoring product, Nesquik.
The popular chocolate malt version is a powder which is mixed with hot or cold
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as a beverage.
Malt Ovaltine (a version without cocoa) and
Rich Chocolate Ovaltine (a version without malt) are also available in some markets. Ovaltine has also been available in the form of
chocolate barsA chocolate bar is a confection in bar form comprising some or all of the following components: cocoa solids, cocoa butter, sugar, milk. The relative presence or absence of these components form the subclasses of dark chocolate, milk chocolate, and white chocolate. In addition to these main...
, chocolate Easter eggs, parfait, cookies, and breakfast cereals, where it is only the brand name that connects the cereals with the chocolate drink.
Ovaltine also manufactured
PDQ ChocolatePDQ Chocolate was a popular drink mix in the 1960s and 1970s. It was manufactured by Ovaltine. It has been sold as "PDQ Chocolate Flavor Beads" and "PDQ Choco Chips." "Egg Nog Flavored PDQ" and "Strawberry PDQ" were also available...
Flavor Beads, PDQ Choco Chips and Egg Nog Flavored PDQ, which are no longer available. These drink mixes were very popular from the 1960s to the 1980s. Ovaltine discontinued the PDQ products about 1995 or 1996.
The US children's radio series
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(1931–1940) and
Captain MidnightCaptain Midnight is a U.S. adventure franchise first broadcast as a radio serial from 1938 to 1949. Sponsored by the Skelly Oil Company, the radio program was the creation of radio scripters Wilfred G. Moore and Robert M...
(1938–1949), and the subsequent
Captain Midnight TV series (1954–1956), were sponsored by Ovaltine. They had promotions in which listeners could save
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from Ovaltine jars to obtain
radio premiumsDuring the time that radio programs were the dominant medium in the United States, some programs advertised "souvenirs" of the various shows, which were sometimes called radio premiums...
, like "
secret decoder ringA secret decoder ring is a device which allows one to decode a simple substitution cipher - or to encrypt a message by working in the opposite direction....
" badges or pins that could be used to decode messages in the program. Children from the time may remember that "Ovaltine" is an anagram for "Vital One". Villa Park, Illinois, was home to the Ovaltine factory until the company's purchase and withdrawal in 1988. The Villa Park Historical Society maintains a permanent exhibit of Ovaltine advertising and memorabilia. The old factory was converted to loft apartments keeping the original floors and wall exposed.
A radio program aimed at five- to fourteen-year-olds,
The League of OvaltineysOvaltineys or League of Ovaltineys was a children's club developed in the 1930s to promote the sale of Ovaltine brand drink in the United Kingdom.-Original Ovaltineys:...
, was broadcast to Great Britain by
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on Sunday evenings at 5:30 PM. Beginning in 1934, it was broadcast until 1940 and the German occupation of Luxembourg and again after
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ended into the 1950s. Like the US programme, listeners could obtain badges, pins, and secret codes. The Ovaltineys' advertising jingle was regarded as one of the most successful jingles of the era.
International appeal
In
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, Ovaltine, like
HorlicksHorlicks is the name of a company and of a malted milk hot drink. It is manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline in the United Kingdom, South Africa, New Zealand, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Jamaica, and under licence in the Philippines and Malaysia....
, is known as a café drink. It is served at
cha chaan tengA cha chaan teng means tea diner, also called Chinese diner, is commonly found in Hong Kong, China, and Taiwan, known for its Chinese food, eclectic and affordable menus, which include many dishes from Hong Kong cuisine and Hong Kong-style Western cuisine. Cha chaan tengs are also popular in Macau...
s as well as fast-food shops such as
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and
Maxim's ExpressMaxim's is Hong Kong's largest food & beverage corporation and restaurant chain. Founded in 1956 by Dr James Tak Wu and his brother S.T...
. It is served hot, or on ice as a cold drink. In Hong Kong the powder is sold without sugar, to be sweetened to taste by the consumer. In Brazil it is commonly mixed with vanilla ice cream. In the Asian market, it is a chocolate ice cream flavored with Ovaltine powder. The Ovomaltine brand is highly recognizable in Switzerland, and the brand is associated with
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and
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.
Ovaltine was also very popular in Britain, and was manufactured at
Kings LangleyKings Langley is a historic English village and civil parish northwest of central London on the southern edge of the Chiltern Hills and now part of the London commuter belt. The major western portion lies in the borough of Dacorum and the east is in the Three Rivers district, both in the county of...
in Hertfordshire using a process that included GEA Wiegand falling film evaporators to concentrate liquid malt extract which was then dried under vacuum in steam heated band dryers. The
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style Ovaltine factory in Kings Langley is a well-known local landmark. Production ceased in 2002 and the factory has now been redeveloped as luxury apartments. Near the factory was a health farm run by the Ovaltine works which was set up as a model farm and a health resort for disadvantaged children, which operated through to the 1960s. Later the farm land was sold off and is now largely occupied by the
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. The Ovaltine Egg Farm is now the site of
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Ltd. and the site of the first
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visible from the M25.
In October 2002 the food and drinks division of
NovartisNovartis International AG is a multinational pharmaceutical company based in Basel, Switzerland, ranking number three in sales among the world-wide industry...
, the maker of Ovaltine, was bought by
Associated British FoodsAssociated British Foods plc is a global food, ingredients and retail company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Its ingredients division is the world's second largest producer of both sugar and baker's yeast and a major producer of other ingredients including emulsifiers, enzymes and lactose...
. ABF currently produces Ovaltine in Switzerland, China, Thailand and the Philippines. In the United States
NestléNestlé S.A. is the world's largest food and nutrition company. Founded and headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland, Nestlé originated in a 1905 merger of the Anglo-Swiss Milk Company, established in 1867 by brothers George Page and Charles Page, and Farine Lactée Henri Nestlé, founded in 1866 by Henri...
manufactures Ovaltine, using a trade dress in cursive writing instead of print.
In Malaysia, Ovaltine has lost its popularity to
Nestlé MiloMilo is a chocolate and malt powder which is mixed with hot or cold water and/or milk to produce a beverage which is popular in many parts of the world. Produced by Nestlé, Milo was originally developed by Thomas Mayne in Sydney, Australia in 1934...
. Ovaltine is sold in tetra packs for cold serving and widely available in shops and supermarkets, yet it has a low profile compared to similar beverages in the market. In Japan, Ovaltine was sold for a short period in the late 1970s by
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Industries (presently Calpis Co., Ltd.), but it was not a commercial success. In Australia,
OvalteeniesOvalteenies are round sweets made of compressed Ovaltine. They are popular with children in Australia and the Philippines and are still sold in many canteens in schools....
are sold as round tablets of compressed Ovaltine, eaten as a
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.
Brazilian fast food chain
Bob'sBob's is the first Brazilian fast food chain, founded in 1952 by the American Brazilian tennis champion Robert Falkenburg, Wimbledon tourney winner in 1948. The first store was opened in the borough of Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro....
, the largest competitor to
McDonald'sMcDonald's Corporation is the world's largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants, serving around 64 million customers daily in 119 countries. Headquartered in the United States, the company began in 1940 as a barbecue restaurant operated by the eponymous Richard and Maurice McDonald; in 1948...
, offers both
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s and
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s made with Ovomaltine, which became a flagship product of the fast-food chain in
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.
In popular culture
In 1947,
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's song "Who Put the
BenzedrineBenzedrine is the trade name of the racemic mixture of amphetamine . It was marketed under this brandname in the USA by Smith, Kline & French in the form of inhalers, starting in 1928...
in Mrs. Murphy's Ovaltine" was popular on the radio. Ovaltine is mentioned in at least three songs from Broadway shows - "Marry the Man Today" from
Guys and DollsGuys and Dolls is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. It is based on "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure", two short stories by Damon Runyon, and also borrows characters and plot elements from other Runyon stories, most notably...
, "
You're the Top"You're The Top" is a Cole Porter song from the 1934 musical Anything Goes. It is about a man and a woman who take turns complimenting each other...
" from
Anything GoesAnything Goes is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The original book was a collaborative effort by Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse, heavily revised by the team of Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. The story concerns madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London...
, and "Go Into Your Trance" from
High SpiritsHigh Spirits is a musical with a book, lyrics, and music by Hugh Martin and Timothy Gray, based on the play Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward, about a man's problems caused by the spirit of his dead wife....
. ("You need no drinks, you need no smokes, you need no aspirin in your Cokes -- No benzedrine in your Ovaltine -- Just go, go, go into your trance.")
One of the segments of
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has Ralphie anxiously decoding the secret message on the
Little Orphan AnnieLittle Orphan Annie was a daily American comic strip created by Harold Gray and syndicated by Tribune Media Services. The strip took its name from the 1885 poem "Little Orphant Annie" by James Whitcomb Riley, and made its debut on August 5, 1924 in the New York Daily News...
radio program, only to discover it's no more than an encouragement to drink Ovaltine.
Frau Blucher (
Cloris LeachmanCloris Leachman is an American actress of stage, film and television. She has won eight Primetime Emmy Awards—more than any other performer—and one Daytime Emmy Award...
) offers Dr. Frankenstein (
Gene WilderGene Wilder is an American stage and screen actor, director, screenwriter, and author.Wilder began his career on stage, making his screen debut in the film Bonnie and Clyde in 1967. His first major role was as Leopold Bloom in the 1968 film The Producers...
) Ovaltine before bed in
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' 1974 spoof
Young FrankensteinYoung Frankenstein is a 1974 American comedy film directed by Mel Brooks and starring Gene Wilder as the title character, a descendant of the infamous Dr. Victor Frankenstein. The supporting cast includes Teri Garr, Cloris Leachman, Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars, Richard...
.
Oscar offers Felix Ovaltine in Neil Simons' play
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.
Ovaltine is mentioned in the intentionally nostalgic song "Do You Remember These?" by the
Statler BrothersThe Statler Brothers were an American country music vocal group founded in 1955 in Staunton, Virginia.Originally performing gospel music at local churches, the group billed themselves as The Four Star Quartet, and later The Kingsmen...
. ("Dancin' close, little moron jokes, and cooties in her hair Captain Midnight, Ovaltine and The Whip at the County Fair...")
Ovaltine was mentioned by the British crime fiction writer
Patricia WentworthPatricia Wentworth was a British crime fiction writer.She was born in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India . She was educated privately and at Blackheath High School in London. After the death of her first husband, George F. Dillon, in 1906, she settled in Camberley, Surrey...
in several of her novels about
Miss SilverMiss Silver is a fictional detective featured in 32 novels by British novelist Patricia Wentworth.-Character:Miss Maud Silver is a retired governess-turned-private detective. Like Miss Marple, Miss Silver's age and demeanor make her appear harmless. Some admire the character, believing that "while...
. The beverage is usually taken by heroines before they go to sleep.
Ovaltine was also mentioned in the 1972
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film
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.
Ovaltine was mentioned in the book
After by Amy Efaw.
Ovaltine was mentioned in the autobiographical book
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by
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, where she narrates that her dad has given her Ovaltine since she was a little girl. (Miles To Go, pages 126-127)
Ovaltine is mentioned in "Words of Wizzum", a song sung by the fictional band "Everclean" in the 2004 movie
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.
Ovaltine is mentioned a few times in
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, in the episodes "
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", "
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" and "The Secret Code".
In the "
Jose Chung's From Outer Space"Jose Chung's From Outer Space" is the 20th episode of the third season of the science fiction television series The X-Files. The episode first aired in the United States on April 12, 1996, on FOX. It was written by Darin Morgan and directed by Rob Bowman...
" episode of
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, a mirrored Ovaltine sign can be read on the outer side of the window in a cafe where
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talked to pilot Jack Schafer (or, as diner cook claimed, where Mulder simply had eaten sweet potato pie).
In the webcomic "Shlock Mercenary" one of the protagonists, an amorphic blob named Shlock, favours a product called "Genuine Imitation Ovalkwik" which has a chocolate taste and seems to be a reference to Ovaltine and Nesquick. This is reflected by the striking similarities between the Nesquick logo and the Ovalkwik logo.
In the
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version of
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,
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imitates the opening crawl by saying, "Meanwhile, Vice Chancellor Ugga Bugga and Darth Buttcrack are rendezvousing on the planet Ovaltine . . ."
See also
- Malted milk
Malted milk is a powdered food product made from a mixture of malted barley, wheat flour, and whole milk, which is evaporated until it forms a powder....
- Horlicks
Horlicks is the name of a company and of a malted milk hot drink. It is manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline in the United Kingdom, South Africa, New Zealand, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Jamaica, and under licence in the Philippines and Malaysia....
- Nestlé Milo
Milo is a chocolate and malt powder which is mixed with hot or cold water and/or milk to produce a beverage which is popular in many parts of the world. Produced by Nestlé, Milo was originally developed by Thomas Mayne in Sydney, Australia in 1934...
- Ovaltineys
Ovaltineys or League of Ovaltineys was a children's club developed in the 1930s to promote the sale of Ovaltine brand drink in the United Kingdom.-Original Ovaltineys:...
- Ovalteenies
Ovalteenies are round sweets made of compressed Ovaltine. They are popular with children in Australia and the Philippines and are still sold in many canteens in schools....
- Nesquik
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