Gave my baby Greek style yoghurt instead of Greek yoghurt, what’s the difference?!

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I’m panicking now because all I can find in shops is “Greek style yoghurt”. I can’t find anything with just “Greek yoghurt” on it.

shes 8 months old.
I assumed it was the same thing. She hasn’t had yoghurt before (or any dairy for that matter apart from her cow and gate formula, if that counts) so I wanted to try her on some. I gave her a baby spoon full of it and she seemed to like it. But I’ve been looking it up and apparently Greek style and Greek yoghurt isn’t the same thing?!

im panicking now. Where can I find full fat Greek yogurt then? I looked in sainsburys and Tesco and can’t find it.

Doesn’t sound fine when you word it like that lol

Most Greek yogurt is made with cows milk too especially the stuff you can buy in shops.

Goat milk is better than cows milk. It’s more gentle on the stomach.
I only found that out after I started her on her formula

OP I had the same worry at the time a few months ago! (My dd has just turned 1). It’s the labelling laws - you’re fine I promise.😃

I had the mini meltdown over it myself but now I just laugh at myself… especially when I was also very concerned over the sugar in it but walked in on my niece giving her a custard cream biscuit 😂

Good god OP calm down! Greek style means it's not made in Greece but is made the same way.

This happens with a lot of things (champagne can only be called so if it's made in the champagne region, otherwise it's sparkling wine, for instance)

It's yogurt... what would it matter anyway?

This can be true but unless she has an intolerance, you really dont need to worry about the spoonful

If you want her to have goats milk/goats cheese etc, then try to look in Turkish type shops.

I do love a genuine greek yoghurt with goats milk so I know partly what you're feeling but dont panic about the spoonful.

The Greek yoghurt sold in the UK is almost all made from cow's milk, not just the Greek style stuff.

And that's the kind of response she would give, thinking we were all nuts for not understanding why she might be concerned about it.

it genuinely didn't occur to her that it really didn't matter that it was e.g 'Greek style' rather than Greek and that if she was thinking normally she would have just picked up Greek style and got on with her day. We might as well have been telling her the earth was flat than telling her it didn't matter.

she laughs about it now

If the cows milk in formula hasn’t damaged her stomach, the cows milk in Greek yoghurt won’t either.

Does baby have an intolerance or are you just preferring to give goats milk instead of cows? Most Greek yog (even fage etc) is cows milk in the uk. You'd be better off looking for goats milk yog specifically if that's the case.

You do know formula is made with cows milk right…

Is anyone else thinking of the Catherine Tate yogurt sketch?

sthelensfarm.co.uk/products/natural-gentle-goats-milk-yogurt-450g

This is what I found when I was searching recently, to make it 'greek' you need to strain it, preferably overnight. It turns really really thick, almost like a cheese. I do it hanging it up in a cheesecloth from the kitchen cupboard handles with a bowl underneath to catch the whey

And if you are going to come on a public forum expressing panic over giving an 8 month old a singular spoon of Greek style yoghurt it really shouldn’t come as a surprise that some people (ie me) think that is a tad alarmist. Hope that helps.

What's the issue with cows milk? Surely most dairy products are made with dairy in the UK?

If you shop on planet Organic they will have goat products but it's pricey.

Made with cows products * woops

christ. unless it lists goats milk as an ingredient of course it’s made with cows milk, it’s in the name. I’m well aware

id prefer not to give her as many cows milk products since I only did research AFTER she got settled on cow & gate, so I’m trying to make a change now. Only to find out that the Greek yoghurt over here isn’t even made with goats milk smh.

Surely you just need to buy a goats milk yoghurt then?

Majority of Greek and Greek style yoghurts in the UK are cows milk. I thought the fact that something was a yoghurt, meant that it was already made much easier to digest than just milk!

Slavishly following and getting stressed by official advice causes worries.
“Don’t eat peanut butter while pregnant so your baby doesn’t develop a nut allergy.” All mothers feel guilty who ate a peanut.
”Don’t feed you child peanuts before the the age of three so they don’t develop a nut allergy.” All mothers who fed their child a peanut feel guilty.
“Feed your baby peanut butter from four months so they don’t develop a nut allergy!” All mothers who haven’t fed their baby peanut butter feel guilty.😄

Best advice is all things in moderation and don’t get hung upon the minutiae. Force feeding a baby sugar - bad idea. Feeding a baby yoghurt with some sugar in it- not a problem at all. All things in moderation, and you and your baby will be fine.

Fage yogurt is good

Goat milk is better than cows milk. It’s more gentle on the stomach.

I have not seen or read about any evidence of this. tbh I think it's a bit of a myth.

any natural full fat yoghurt/quark/fromage frais is fine.** if you really want goat milk product then a health food store is your best bet.

Just some gentle advice- she will be eating dirt off the floor as soon as she is mobile. It’s going to be hard to avoid cows milk sources of dairy unless there is an apathy I’m not sure the ‘goats milk is better than cow’ is correct. Just try and give her a balanced diet overall and don’t sweat the small stuff.

An allergy not apathy.

It's like you can't call sparkling wine outside of the champagne region 'champagne'. It's just a name claim.

Wow people are fairly piling on you here OP. Sorry to see that especially given you say you only joined Mumsnet really recently.
You sound a little like me when my first was a baby, it can be hard to know what is and isn't ok for them and very easy to get a bit worried when we think we've not done something quite right.
It sounds like you know now what the differences might be between Greek and Greek-style. Your little one seems to be fine (given you haven't said anything to the contrary) and you can decide for yourself whether you want to try the Greek-style again or not.
Hope you're ok and have a lovely Saturday night