Alternatives to sugar filled yoghurt?

orb_3

retiredlady wrote: »

I love YV yogurts as well - any chance you can tell us how to spot the own brand ones?;):D

There's an EU identification mark on the pots for traceability purposes.

You'll find it on all sorts of food products and it tells you the country of production and there's a code to identify the factory the product was made in. It's an oval printed somewhere on the packaging and it has three lines of text. The top line is the code of the country the product was produced in, the second line is the factory code and the bottom line says 'EC'.

Yeo Valley have two sites for yogurt production, Blagdon is the original site which is still as far as I know a working farm and where the bulk of the single pots are produced and Cannington a few miles away where the multipacks are made.

All products (irrespective of the brand) made at Blagdon have the code UW020 in the oval while those made at Cannington have the code SG014.

Bear in mind that the own brand products may be made to slightly different recipes to the YV brand but the differences are minor. Won't be organic though unless it says it is.

I can go on and on about yogurt having worked making it for 10 years, but I'll stop now!

R

Boodle

I like to buy the individual pots of Yeo Valley organic natural yoghurt (works out cheaper than the next size-up pot. It is cheaper to buy the hugest pot however, but we wouldn't eat that much before it went off ) The only other individual pots of natural yoghurt I remember seeing were in Morrisons but that was a good while ago. The only other thing I can suggest is to buy the value brand of natural yoghurt and decant into a small plastic tub to take to work.

retiredlady

orb wrote: »

There's an EU identification mark on the pots for traceability purposes.

You'll find it on all sorts of food products and it tells you the country of production and there's a code to identify the factory the product was made in. It's an oval printed somewhere on the packaging and it has three lines of text. The top line is the code of the country the product was produced in, the second line is the factory code and the bottom line says 'EC'.

Yeo Valley have two sites for yogurt production, Blagdon is the original site which is still as far as I know a working farm and where the bulk of the single pots are produced and Cannington a few miles away where the multipacks are made.

All products (irrespective of the brand) made at Blagdon have the code UW020 in the oval while those made at Cannington have the code SG014.

Bear in mind that the own brand products may be made to slightly different recipes to the YV brand but the differences are minor. Won't be organic though unless it says it is.

I can go on and on about yogurt having worked making it for 10 years, but I'll stop now!

R

Thank you so much! I have added this information to my price book so will be able to check when I do my shopping!

Ted_Hutchinson

They Do the Work, You Reap the YogurtBeing a regular yoghurt maker, I thought this article very interesting.
I haven't yet tried making Crème fraîche yet but I'm interested in giving it a try.

Primrose

Another good way to sweeten yognurt naturally is to add chopped dried fruit. I find that dried apricots and sultanas work well

yvonne3009

I often get a natural yoghurt with the lowest sugar content I can find and then add a baby fruit puree pot (Organix or Fruitapura I think they are) They dont have any added sugar and do some yummy fruit combinations. You can get them in the baby food aisles. They're not ever so cheap though so I tend to buy bulk when they're on special offer

thriftlady_2

yvonne3009 wrote: »

I often get a natural yoghurt with the lowest sugar content I can find

But surely natural yogurt has no sugar in it?