Our story
We couldn't find it. So we made it.
A small Australian company, a piece of very good dairy country, and one stubborn idea — that a parent should be able to check everything.
The tin in the cupboard.
Most Indian families have one: a children's drink bought in good faith, with a picture of a happy child and a promise on the front, and an ingredient list on the back that nobody was meant to read.
In the last few years a lot of parents did read it, and what followed — the notices, the withdrawn claims, the quiet reformulations — confirmed what many had suspected. The category had been telling parents what they wanted to hear.
We didn't want to add another promise to that shelf. We wanted to make the drink that has nothing to hide, and then hide nothing.
Start with very good milk, and don't ruin it.
That's the whole method. Australian organic A2 protein milk from grass-fed cows in the Great Ocean Road region, dried once.
Organic here means the farms — pasture, herd and milk — are certified organic in Australia. The finished sachet is not certified organic, because the vitamins, minerals and DHA we add are not. We would rather tell you that than imply it.
Then only what's needed: milk protein, real cocoa, a little cane sugar, DHA, a probiotic culture, and thirteen vitamins and seven minerals, including the nutrients India's national survey measured in children — iron, vitamin D, B12, zinc, folate — and the rest a complete profile needs. Everything named, everything with its amount, blended and packed in Australia.
And nothing else. No artificial sweeteners, no artificial flavours — Australian cane sugar and real vanilla. No “complexes”. No claims about what your child will become.
Who's behind it.
Carrington & Finch Pty Ltd is an Australian company based in Melbourne, started by people who had spent too long reading children's nutrition labels and not believing them.
We are deliberately small. We don't own farms and we don't pretend to; we work with Australian dairy farmers and a licensed Australian dairy manufacturer, and we name the region rather than the names.
Our promises
What we've committed to.
- Every ingredient named, with its amount.No proprietary blends, ever.
- The sugar figure printed on the pack, in grams— with every other amount.
- Made in Australia— the milk, the blending, the packing. Nothing re-blended or repacked in India.
- No artificial sweeteners, flavours, colours or preservatives.
- No claims about height, brains or immunity.If we ever have the trials to make one, we'll show you the trial first.
- We'll tell you when we change something.Recipes evolve. When ours does, the change and the reason go on this site before the new carton ships.
A letter to parents
A letter to parents.
To the parent reading the back of the tin
You are, we suspect, standing somewhere slightly inconvenient. A supermarket aisle. A chemist. Or a phone at eleven at night, long after everyone else has gone to sleep, trying to work out whether you are doing enough.
We want to say something before you read anything else about our product.
The worry you are carrying is not evidence that you are failing. It is evidence that you are paying attention.
Most children's nutrition is sold by quietly widening that worry and then offering itself as the answer. A number about brain development. A photograph of a child who is taller than yours. The gentle suggestion that other parents already know something you don't.
We have decided not to sell that way. Not because we are better people, but because we think it is the reason so many parents no longer believe anything on a label — and once that trust is gone, an honest product has nowhere left to stand.
So here is our side of the arrangement.
We will tell you exactly what is in the sachet and exactly how much. Every batch is independently tested for safety — microbiology and heavy metals — before it is released. The full nutrient panel is run on the first production run and at set intervals, and we print only what the lab confirms. We will never make a claim about your child's height, brain or immunity. And when there is something we do not have yet, we will write it on the website with a date next to it.
What we will not do is pretend this solves anything larger. It is a glass of carefully made nutrition for the days that do not go to plan — the untouched tiffin, the two bites of roti, the morning that got away from you. It is a safety net, not absolution.
You cannot win the dinner-table fight every night. No parent can. This is simply for the nights you don't.
Read the label. Read our competitors' labels too — we wrote a guide on how to do it, knowing full well it makes you a harder customer to sell to. We would rather have you as a sceptic who chose us than a believer who was persuaded.
— The team at Carrington & Finch