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TASTE
TEST
HUFFINGTON
06.16.13
If You Must Drink Your Yogurt,
Choose Wisely
BY KRISTEN AIKEN
RINKING YOGURT has
always been a mystery to
us. Don’t get us wrong,
we’re yogurt lovers here
— but we’re perfectly happy eating
it with a spoon. Unsurprisingly, convenience is important to Americans,
and thus it’s become increasingly
omnipresent on supermarket shelves
as of late. So in true taste test fashion, we put our liquid-yogurt-pants
on and sorted the good from the bad.
When you’re shopping for drinkable yogurt, you’ll find two types of
products: yogurt and kefir. What’s
the difference? Not much, flavor-
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wise. But the health benefits do
differ when it comes to probiotics.
Here’s the deal: Yogurt is milk that’s
been fermented with bacteria. Kefir
(pronounced ke-feer) is also milk
that’s been fermented with bacteria,
but a specific type of bacteria from
kefir grains, which produce more
probiotics than yogurt. In simple
terms, yogurt keeps the digestive
system clean, and kefir can actually
help digest your food and keep your
colon healthy. But on to the tasting. Drinking yogurts come in about
every flavor imaginable and range
from runny to viscous, sour to overwhelmingly saccharine. We found 16
different flavors and brands
and ranked them.
As always,
this taste test
is in no way
influenced or
sponsored by
the brands
included.