Healthiest yoghurts for toddlers?

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Can anyone recommend some healthy yoghurt options for toddlers? My son is 18 months and loves Petits Filous. I know natural Greek yoghurt is ideal but he won't touch it - the tangy flavour is quite an acquired taste I suppose.

Are Petits Filous OK or are there other yoghurts out there that are low in sugar and better for toddlers?

You can sweeten natural yogurt by mixing in fruit puree, but it's faffy and I always ended up with loads going to waste. As a general rule the cheaper supermarket own fromage frais tend to have less sugar then the branded ones, just read the labels and try to move him on to the least bad.

I did a bit of comparison and found little yeos better than most, still not great though but just could not be arsed with natural yoghurt and fruit purée anymore

I suspect he’s used to the amount of sugar; we reduce our sugar when it’s really needed by using xylitol which is recommended by a nutritionist friend as it’s natural but good for teeth / doesn’t affect blood sugar the same way . You may find this works with Greek yoghurt and that you can gradually wean him off the level of sweetness he expects from Petit Filous

Cadbury’s buttons.

What about sugar free Petit Filous?

I just give mine plain Greek yogurt with some fruit in. Baby just eats plain yogurt. I'm very much a let's not give you a nicer option in case you like it mum.

Mine eat Little Yeos. Its the only one that doesn't taste sickly sweet.

Little Yeo or Sugar Free Petit Filous are the lower sugar ones i could find.

Little Yeos here too. You can also get sugar free ones but they come in smaller pots.

Little yeos small pots or the great dairy conspiracy suckies both contain no added sugar (sweetened with grape/fruit juice instead).

Otherwise Greek yogurt with fruit puree or sometimes a bit of honey.

I do Greek yoghurt with a tiny squeeze of honey or maple syrup, it's enough to sweeten it up a bit but less sugar than a petit filous type yoghurt. If you persist with it they learn to like Greek yoghurt eventually if there's nothing else on offer.

Proper Greek yoghurt isn't tangy, it's creamy and delicious, my daughter has it with a drizzle of honey. Greek style yoghurt can be tangy.

Petit filous do the no added sugar ones now.

What about sugar free Petit Filous?

I didn’t know these existed - thank you!!!

Yes to Little Yeos and sugar free. PF. Also the Collective suckies

My Dc is older, but likes the Fage flavoured Greek yoghurt, which I suspect are actually aimed at toddlers, as they are completely smooth with no bits - they come in a two pack, either vanilla or strawberry. They are a bit expensive so I wait until they are on offer.

It's usually cheaper to buy a big pot of yoghurt and spoon out a portion though. Full fat is best for young children.

I used to sweeten Greek yoghurt with mashed banana, or a drizzle of honey (for over 12 months old) and cinnamon.

Sugar free anything is generally stuffed with chemically crap to make it palatable which I'd be MUCH more worried about than a bit of honey on Greek yoghurt.

Little Yeo or Greek Yoghurt with mashed fruit.

Tesco’s own brand Greek yoghurt isn’t particularly tangy. My youngest who has the sweetest tooth known to man will happily eat it and in fact prefers it over Petit Filous

You could try kefir mixed with blended fruit? Or what if you froze some of the Greek yogurt into little bites to make it more fun to eat?

@FusionChefGeoff

Sugar free anything is generally stuffed with chemically crap to make it palatable which I'd be MUCH more worried about than a bit of honey on Greek yoghurt.

No... it's just fruit juice.

@cafedesreves no, it really isn’t… a quick look on Yeos own website reveals a disturbing set of ingredients in their sugar free versions that I would never feed to my DD. It is processed rubbish. Feel free to eat it, but don’t be fooled into thinking it is in anyway a natural or healthy product, because it isn’t

www.yeovalley.co.uk/things-we-make/little-yeos/mango-vanilla-blueberry-banana-no-added-sugar-yogurt/

@canyoutoleratethis which ingredient particularly worries you?

I whizz 2 mangos and 3 bananas up in the blender and mix with a big tubbof Greek yoghurt both my 1 and 3 year old love it

[quote canyoutoleratethis]@cafedesreves no, it really isn’t… a quick look on Yeos own website reveals a disturbing set of ingredients in their sugar free versions that I would never feed to my DD. It is processed rubbish. Feel free to eat it, but don’t be fooled into thinking it is in anyway a natural or healthy product, because it isn’t

www.yeovalley.co.uk/things-we-make/little-yeos/mango-vanilla-blueberry-banana-no-added-sugar-yogurt/[/quote]
I agree that some sugar free yoghurts have a lot of artificial sweeteners and ingredients, but I can't see anything worrying in this yoghurt - fruit, cornflour, natural flavouring and lactase (which our bodies make themselves)