Wagamama Kids Cococino - Whole Milk

Wagamama kids cococino is warm frothed whole milk in a small cup, listed here at £3.30 (est.) and carrying just 48 kcal, the smallest count of any drink on the wagamama kids menu. The price is this site's estimate, since wagamama does not publish one; it sits level with the two priced kids drinks, the Cawston Press cartons.

A cococino is a babyccino by another name. There is no coffee and no caffeine in it, just whole milk steamed into a foamy cup so a small child holds something that looks like the adults' order. The numbers make it the quiet winner of the kids drinks list: around 4 g of sugar, all of it the lactose naturally present in milk rather than free sugar, so it is the only kids drink that takes nothing from the NHS daily free sugar allowance. It also carries around 2 g of protein, which no juice on the list manages, and the cococino calories are the lowest of any kids drink by a clear gap.

Milk is the single listed allergen, and since warm frothed milk is the entire recipe, this is the one kids drink a dairy allergy rules out completely; the fruit cartons carry no listed allergens at all. Anyone wondering how much is the kids cococino should check the till on the day, since the figure here is an estimate rather than wagamama's own. As an order it works best at the slow end of a meal, when the adults have coffee coming, and a lemon yuzu muffin split across the table turns the little cup into a proper finish.