For generations of Aussie children, your chocolate milk could define you. Milo was standard. Quick was wild and carefree.

And then there was Akta-Vite: the ridgy-didge, 100 per cent Aussie health-food choc-milk.

Now, more than three decades after it was sold to American frozen-food empire Sara Lee, Akta-Vite is coming back to the family.

The family, in this case, is Nicholas Health and Nutrition, owned by the Nicholas family that built an empire on the back of the first Australian-made aspirin, Aspro.