It's that time of life for me when I need to start thinking about osteoporosis, or rather prevention of same. I've always guzzled milk up to the point of a half gallon a day and usually we have sugar-free ice cream bars for dessert, but I decided to up the ante a little as well as put some positive bacteria in my gut.

Yes, I've gone the yogurt trail. I can't stand most of the regular kinds, especially those with sweet fruits in them. When I eat sweet fruits I want to do so naturally and not have this artificial sugar sweetness added to it. I've tasted various types of berry yogurts—you might as well be licking out the sugar bowl along with this weird aftertaste.

However, Dannon makes something called "Whips!" which are low-fat, have active cultures, and actually don't taste so bad if you avoid stuff like raspberry and strawberry. They have a chocolate mousse which is quite good and a key lime that is nice and sour (there's a lemon, but I haven't tried it).

I got quite excited a couple of weeks ago when I found chocolate mousse mint, but all for naught: it's not bad, but there's no appreciable difference in taste between the plain chocolate mousse and the chocolate mint. They need to load it with a lot more mint oil or even crushed mint leaves before you can even tell.

Last week I hit a jackpot: there's a new Whips! flavor called "Creamy Latte." Ohboy, coffee-flavored yogurt! Yum—Nirvana in a Dannon cup! (Wonder what it would taste like if you mixed the chocolate mousse with the creamy latte? Mnnnnn....)

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Yum! I'm a big yogurt fan, and the Whips! are mighty tasty indeed! I've never tried the chocolate or creamy latte (the last time I had coffee yogurt, it was Acme's generic brand and it had the WORST aftertaste), but most of the other flavors are favorites of mine. The Orange Cream is especially good. (I've tried the lemon too, and it IS very good, tart and not too sweet. :) )

# posted by  Emma : 9:20:00 PM

 

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