Now that summer is in full swing I see lots of people walking around with MYO frozen yogurts and it got me to wondering about the ingredients. I wasn't really expecting it to be real food but I was hopeful. Well, it's not good. Here is the list of ingredients for plain old non-fat vanilla:
Pasteurized and cultured skim milk, sugar, corn syrup, whey, non-fat dry milk, natural and artificial flavors, milk protein isolate, cellulose gum, guar gum, carrageenan, modified food starch, pectin, live cultures.
If you choose Mint flavor you will also get Blue #1.
If you choose the no sugar versions you will get acesulfame potassium.
If you choose non-fat chocolate you will get polysorbate 80.
I am not going to go into detail about each of these industrially manufactured ingredients that are not food but I think you get the point. There is nothing in there that is real food with the exception of the live cultures (no, skim milk is not real food), although I'm not sure how the poor things could survive in that environment. Why don't you do yourself a favor and skip the MYO and make your own! It's easy and only takes a few ingredients: yogurt, raw honey or maple syrup, fresh or frozen organic fruit and perhaps some nuts (soaked and dehydrated of course!). If you like to have a treat on the go make it before leaving home (in reusable glass jars) and put it in an ice chest to take with you.
It is very important to read ingredient labels. If you see ingredients that your great-grandmother would not have eaten or recognized as food then maybe you shouldn't eat it either.
Posted by Ginny
Those froyo places are so popular here in Oregon, and I think people really believe they are a healthful treat. The word needs to get out that it's not!
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