Does anyone have those little Yakault type drinks?

[TinyGang]

I don't know anyone that uses them. Are they all they're cracked up to be on the ads, or are they just little pots of expensive yogurt with a huge hype attached to them?

Apparantly they've been around for years(?).

I don't remember them at home as a child. God, it was a big deal to get an ordinary yogurt when I was a kid and even then, we only had them at Christmas!

I buy them for my ds (aged 9), basically because he has such a poor diet because he is so incredibly fussy
I don't know whether they do any good. It's really impossible to say, but he is pretty healthy and very active (despite his rubbish diet) and I have heard that research has shown that they work so I keep buying them.
Think they're bloody expensive though

Oh and he's so fussy that he only drinks Yakult. I bought a load of Danone Activia the other week because they were on special offer at Sainsburys and the little sod turned his nose up at them. Had to chuck them all away tonight because they're past their sell-buy date.

I wonder if they become full of bad bacteria when they go out of date

I am rubbish at using anything by sell-by date - I have drunk probiotic yogurts literally months after the date. Fish them out again, bogwoppit!

Yogurt was invented as a means of preserving milk - I think - so if it has the culture in it it won't go bad.

Probably.

Unless it's raspberry )

bogwobbit, even

I have been told by a hospital dietician that probiotic yogurt/good bacteria thingies are not much use because any bacteria is destroyed by incredibly powerful stomach acid. Apparently the only pro-biotics that make it through the stomach to the gut are the ones in tablet form with the strong coating (entemic - sp?), this coating protects the good bacteria as it passes through the stomach.

yakult has been popular in brazil for ages. my husband and dd#1 (2) likes it but not me. yuck.

I must admit, I haven't even tried it. Does it taste like yogurty milk? That's how I imagine it to be.

Very expensive yoghurty milk with HUGE amounts of sugar. And not enough of the active probiotic to make a ha'pth of difference. My ds loves them and sneaks them into the trolley whenever he can, but apparantly they have no health benefits whatsoever. And as I said, a ton of suger.

They make a big song and dance about the health benefits on the adverts.