Yoghurt

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Advice to avoid flavoured yoghurts is often given but many people will not eat plain yoghurt. Do you avoid flavoured yoghurts/kefir?

You are being unreasonable - I buy plain only
You are NOT being unreasonable - I buy flavoured

I eat plain yoghurt with fruit. Because I'm trying to be healthy. But I've actually grown to prefer it.

Everyone else in the family eats flavoured yoghurt.

Each to their own!

I like the flavoured yoghurts, especially black cherry flavour full fat yoghurt, but I have type 2 diabetes so I buy plain yoghurt and add either persimmon and sweet cinnamon, or defrosted frozen cherries.

We get both types - mostly plain because it's more versatile, works out cheaper and if the fancy takes me, I can use it to make another batch.

I also really like ewe's milk yoghurt.

I occasionally buy plain but add sweetener or honey.

Just add strawberries or whatever fruit to plain kefir. Blend if you want.

I buy both, but not ones like fruit corners that are full of sugar and bits of chocolate.
Flavoured will be Greek style/organic type ones.
I think there’s many worse things than flavoured yoghurt

I buy plain creamfields yoghurt from Tesco it's lovely. I usually eat it plain but sometimes add some honey or some stewed rhubarb

I dont like yoghurt full stop.

No, flavoured yoghurt tastes too sweet/ chemically for me. Plain Greek or kefir with fruit for me

Full fat Greek yoghurt with a handful of pecan nuts and a drizzle of maple syrup. Every morning. I usually make my own using the thermos flask method!

Fage strawberry is out of this world good, it’s like mousse, I always have pots and pots of it in the fridge.

Excellent post!

How is it that Longley Farm are the best yoghurts but the most difficult to get hold of?

Longley Farm getting good reviews on here. I looked up their strawberry yoghurt and they add sugar!!!!!

It's fairtrade and unrefined and it's not sugar disguised as something else.

An own-brand one has the following ingredients
Greek Style Yogurt (Milk), Sugar, Strawberry (3%), Strawberry Purée (3%), Maize Starch, Flavouring, Colour (Anthocyanins), Concentrated Lemon Juice, Live Bacterial Cultures [Bifidobacterium, Lactobacillus Bulgaricus, Streptococcus Thermophilus]

A branded one has the following ingredients:
Skyr Yogurt from Skimmed Milk (87%), Strawberries (6.5%), Sugar, Maize Starch, Lemon Juice from Concentrate, Natural Flavouring

I’d be so grateful for your recipe please. I’ve wasted a lot of time on failures!

Why are we not eating flavoured yoghurts?

I buy plain Greek yoghurt and add my own fruit. Usually I sweeten it with a bit of date syrup as well.

I could eat a bucket load of Fage plain Greek yoghurt. I like it on savoury things too, such as samosas, grilled chicken or salads. But if I want a flavoured yoghurt, I'll have one. Just like if I want a glass of wine or a bar of chocolate. Surely everything in moderation?

We buy flavoured yogurts. DH and I like Oykos. DC like petit filous and yogurt tubes but buying plain and mixing something in isn't a bad idea.

I had some delicious Greek yogurt with honey in Athens.

Fairtade has nothing to do with the ingredients. Unrefined or not disguised, sugar is still sugar. If I wanted a flavoured yoghurt I'd mash up some raspberries and stir it in. There's no need for added sugar.

If you don’t like it, don’t eat it. Yoghurt is not an essential food group.

Yep me too.

I've got greek yoghurt right now with banana, seeds and honey

An ingredient being Fairtrade does have something to do with the ingredients
The raspberries contain sugar anyway.

I mostly eat plain yoghurt.

But I’ve just had a Greggs pasty and a can of coke for my lunch so flavoured yoghurts are probably the least of my worries.