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??? This isn't an American taste thing: such yogurt styles are directly from Europe. Switzerland, Italy, France, UK, and Ireland all produce yogurt in a form i
by SeanLuke 12y ago
??? This isn't an American taste thing: such yogurt styles are directly from Europe. Switzerland, Italy, France, UK, and Ireland all produce yogurt in a form immediately recognizable to Americans. For example, just yesterday I was in a grocery store in Italy buying yogurt, and had two options: exactly like Yoplait, or greek style (Fage etc.)
- lobster_johnson 12y agoI am having much less of a problem finding unsweetened (ie., fruit only) yogurt in many other countries, although I will agree that the problem is not unique to the US. For a direct US-to-Europe comparison, when I'm in Germany, my favourite non-plain yogurt to buy is Müller's "Joghurt mit der Ecke" with granola [1]. It's 118 kcal and contains 11.3g carbs. It exists in the US [2], but with a different formulation: The US version is 210 kcal with a carbohydrate content of 32g, of which 22g is sugar. It tastes disgustingly sweet, for me it's inedible. In the US, yogurt is almost exclusively sweetened, with a sugar content of typically about 10-20%; most of the sugar doesn't come from the fruit, but from pure sugar and fruit juice. The yogurts are almost entirely "no fat", which from a flavour perspective is awful; fat has been replaced with sugar, making it less healthy. In my local supermarkets in NYC, the only whole-milk yogurts available are plain yogurts from brands like Stonyfield. [1] http://www.muellermilch.de/fileadmin/documents/infos/info_naehrwerte.pdf http://www.muellermilch.de/fileadmin/documents/infos/info_na... [2] http://www.mullerquaker.com/products/corner/crunchy-granola-yogurt http://www.mullerquaker.com/products/corner/crunchy-granola-...