My favourite Greek yoghurt travels by refrigerated lorry all the way from Greece

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Embarrassed to admit that I never thought about this before. My favourite brand was not available online this week and the substitute - also Greek’ - had travelled many miles overland through the Balkans, Europe and ferry etc - to reach me. Turns out that’s what my normal v delicious and well known branded yoghurt does every week, because it can’t be called Greek if it isn’t made, packaged etc in Greece. So I’m thinking, there must be a UK-equivalent Greek-style’ yoghurt that is just as delicious but without all the miles?

I fell down a YouTube rabbit hole yesterday and watched this. Quite interesting.

I struggle to find a Greek/Greek style that has as much protein as Fage (10g per 100g) but I’d love to as my yogurt habit is bankrupting me!

Eh?

Just checked mine. The M&S 5% Authentic Greek Yogurt Natural (strained) is 8.8% and the Yeo Valley Greek Recipe (strained) is 9g. M&S cheaper. Yeo Valley similar price but organic and w/o the food miles.

YV have a new (last year or so) Authentic Greek recipe 5% that is strained and v similar to Fage. Totally different from their Greek Style.

I don't like what they do to their poor olive population either 😔

Both the Greek brand Greek Yoghurts I have bought recently and enjoy, both have cream added for thickner.

I'm another fan of Tim's Greek-style Kefir. It's gorgeous.

What’s wrong with cream all of a sudden?

You people!
If you want a yogurt like fage, but made in the UK, use a dollop of fage as a starter in cows milk, warm as per recipes all over Google. Add nothing else then strain until it is as thick as you want. Done. Or else look at the ingredients of UK based yogurts and if they are thick with no ingredients other than milk they are what you want. Or you can strain a bit more if you want them even thicker.

The rows of tubs and literal bucket sized imports in the local Turkish/Greek/Mediterranean shops around me (with just a couple of large tubs of Ewes' milk yoghurts - slightly annoying when you have CMPA and need to have either Goat or Sheep dairy) beg to differ for anybody who isn't actually physically in Greece right now.

No, read the thread (& many others on the subject). Greek style is different to Greek recipe. Greek style is not strained which means it runnier & has less protein (& is sometimes thickened artificially).

No. This is incorrect. Greek style is not strained.

Pretty sure Tims is and Lancashire Farms. Yeo Valley too.

Absolutely nothing.

My Greek style yogurt from Sainsbury's is just made from cow's milk, no other ingredients. It tastes fine to me, but then, I'm not sure if I've ever had real Greek yogurt.

Yeo valley do both a Greek style and a Greek recipe. Photos to follow...

Photos here. No idea if Tim's do the same.

It’s not incorrect. Greek style can be strained, no reason why it can’t.

the only thing Greek style means for sure, is that it wasn’t made in Greece

well, I personally wouldn't choose to eat cream for breakfast. I would choose to eat natural yogurt with healthy bacteria.

The addition of cream - which is a part of milk - doesn’t make it unnatural or remove the healthy bacteria.

Thank you for educating me about cream. I had absolutely no idea it was made from milk.

You may be happy eating cream for breakfast, I'd rather not.

The video I watched (posted by multiple people in this thread) showed that the reason cream is added is that the yogurt is made faster than usual because it's cheaper. The process of thickening it artificially (by not straining it) removes all the bacteria. That goes for yogurt with cream added and also for yogurt with cornflour/guargum added.

I guess there's nothing wrong with eating these, but it's not what I thought I was buying.

Cream is naturally occuring in doary. Cannot possibly be worse additive than xanthan gum or similar to diary product.

Thank you for educating me about cream. I had absolutely no idea it was made from milk.

I will sound incredibly shitty now but what the fuck do they teach you people at schools in UK. Or reading things or basics. What

whoosh!!!