Speaker 1: Many years ago, we really only had one type of yogurt.
Speaker 1: Now the shelves are packed with high protein yogurt, Greek yogurt,
Speaker 1: soy yogurt, lactose free yogurt, kids yogurt, fruit yogurt, pro
Speaker 1: goo to yogurt, and of course dairy free yogurt. Hi.
Speaker 1: I'm leanne Wood and I'm Size Burrow, and as Silverstra's
Speaker 1: leading dieticians, we bring you the Nutrition Couch Product Review,
Speaker 1: a weekly chat on new products and old favorites that
Speaker 1: you can find at the SIEP markets. Well, we've come
Speaker 1: a long way with dairy free yogurts in the past
Speaker 1: few years Suzie as consumer demand increase it and today
Speaker 1: we've got three popular products for our listeners at home.
Speaker 1: Our first one is the Woolly's own brand Plantitude. Now
Speaker 1: we've previously reviewed their delicious plant based vegan cookies delicious
Speaker 1: but not so nutritious on the podcast, so I thought
Speaker 1: we'd go with the same brand and look at their
Speaker 1: dairy free coconut strawberry yogurt. So this is of course
Speaker 1: wool West branded, so it's only available at Woolworst. It's
Speaker 1: five dollars for five hundred grants and of course it's
Speaker 1: a strawberry coconut dairy free flavor. So when we look
Speaker 1: at the ingredient SUSI, it is forty two percent coconut
Speaker 1: milk followed by water. It's got five percent strawberry pulp
Speaker 1: in there. It's also got sugar, corn starch, natural flavor,
Speaker 1: natural color from beet red to give it that nice
Speaker 1: red color, acidity regulators, and some lactic starter culture. So
Speaker 1: ingredient list, you know, isn't too bad. It's got a
Speaker 1: two and a half health Star rating and fifty percent
Speaker 1: of ingredients are Australian ingredients. Now looking at per serving,
Speaker 1: so per serving is two hundred gram so it's just
Speaker 1: you know, under sort of half the types. It's actually
Speaker 1: pretty large. Serving two hundred grams, we've got eight hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty three kilodeles for energy, and we've got one
Speaker 1: point two grams of protein, fifteen point four grams of fat,
Speaker 1: with twelve of that being saturated, so quite a high
Speaker 1: amount of saturated fat because of the base of coconut milk.
Speaker 1: To start with, we've got seventeen point two grams of carbohydrates,
Speaker 1: with eleven point six grams of that sugar and some
Speaker 1: of that is actually added sugar as well. There's quite
Speaker 1: a high sugar load in a yogurt product, obviously minimal
Speaker 1: dietary fiber, and only a small amount of sodium forty
Speaker 1: two grams, which we're not too concerned about. So overall,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't think that this is my favorite plant based
Speaker 1: yogurt SUSI. It's not fortified at all. We just in
Speaker 1: our previous segment talked about how important calcium was on
Speaker 1: a plant based diet, so this probably isn't my favorite one.
Speaker 1: It does have quite a lot of added sugar. It
Speaker 1: is quite energy dense as well. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: haven't tried it. I haven't you know, I haven't thought
Speaker 1: about the taste. Hopefully it's delicious, our listeners might write
Speaker 1: in and let us know. But it's also not too
Speaker 1: it's not on the budget friendly side. Is it either
Speaker 1: you know, five dollars or five hundred grams, it's not
Speaker 1: I wouldn't exactly say it as budget friendly.
Speaker 2: Well, I think the concern is that really nutritionally, it's
Speaker 2: not similar to what we would traditionally think of as yogurt,
Speaker 2: which would be a fermented dairy. Now it's a challenging
Speaker 2: area because for people who don't want to include dairy
Speaker 2: in their diet and they do want to a yoga it,
Speaker 2: it's sort of like, well, it's not the same thing,
Speaker 2: and that's certainly what we've seen historically with coconut based yogurt.
Speaker 2: And so the best way I can think to compare
Speaker 2: it is as a dessert, you know, in terms of
Speaker 2: saturated fat content, and I agree, two hundred grams is
Speaker 2: a massive serving. You know, you'd probably be more than
Speaker 2: satisfied on one hundred. But this isn't a product that
Speaker 2: I use with any of my plant based clients. If
Speaker 2: they do love coconut yogurt, are very clear to say
Speaker 2: it's really not yogurt. There's no protein, there's no calcium
Speaker 2: generally speaking, it in this instance, it's really quite high
Speaker 2: and added sugars and also really high and saturated fat
Speaker 2: is as a reference point, you know, you wouldn't be
Speaker 2: wanting more than say twenty grams maybe thirty if saturated
Speaker 2: fat per day maximum. So this is you know, getting
Speaker 2: close to half that in a product that you would
Speaker 2: think is quite healthy. So I would just put this
Speaker 2: in a dessert category. If you love it, have it
Speaker 2: very occasionally, but it certainly wouldn't be any of my
Speaker 2: shopping lists or recommendations for one of my clients.
Speaker 1: And that's a really good point, Like it is very
Speaker 1: hard to get a plant based yogurt that is nutritionally
Speaker 1: similar to something like, you know, actual Greek yoga. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know we've got soy yogurt, but let's be honest,
Speaker 1: Susi Soi yogurt is not pleasant to taste. I mean,
Speaker 1: if there's a brand out there that is delicious, please
Speaker 1: send it my way. I'm more than happy to try it.
Speaker 1: But I have been very offended by sow yogurts in
Speaker 1: the past. I do not find them very tasty at all.
Speaker 1: So I really like your point about putting this in
Speaker 1: the dessert category because nutritionally it's not strong at all,
Speaker 1: is it. It's very similar to something we'd find in
Speaker 1: the dessert aisle.
Speaker 2: Well, it's misleading because it appears in the yogat section,
Speaker 2: and so consumers will go and think, oh, it's the same,
Speaker 2: and it so couldn't be more fundamentally different. You know,
Speaker 2: they don't even add any calcium to it, which I've
Speaker 2: never been sure if it's because the calcium won't mix
Speaker 2: well with coconut. I wondered if it was actually binding issue,
Speaker 2: because you would at least try and add some nutrients
Speaker 2: to it. But you know, a serve of typical yogat
Speaker 2: would have at least five, probably closer to eight or
Speaker 2: ten grams of protein, right up to twenty grams per serve,
Speaker 2: and this has barely got one, you know, so nutritionally
Speaker 2: it offers very little other than a hardy dose of
Speaker 2: calories and then sat fat. So, as I said, nothing
Speaker 2: really good I can say about it, And I'm actually
Speaker 2: surprised it's got two and a half health stars? How
Speaker 2: are they getting those?
Speaker 1: Where?
Speaker 2: How they getting too and a half health stars?
Speaker 1: From what I imagine some strawberry pop. It's got a
Speaker 1: bit of fruit in there, perhaps five percent.
Speaker 2: Come on, that's dodgy in itself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you'll be quite shocked by the second
Speaker 1: product I've chosen today, Suzi. This is probably one of
Speaker 1: the more popular dairy free brands. It's a co Yo brand,
Speaker 1: so we're looking at the Greek style coconut yogurt in
Speaker 1: the Coyo brand. So I thought this was this interesting
Speaker 1: because it picked my interest because it said Greek style,
Speaker 1: So I didn't really look at the nutritionals. I just went, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is a great one to review. Let's actually see
Speaker 1: if it matches up to what we would call the
Speaker 1: marketing on the front of the label. So it is
Speaker 1: normally twelve dollars for nine hundred grams, but this week
Speaker 1: is on sale, will work for ten dollars, so twelve
Speaker 1: dollars that's quite expensive. It's twelve dollars dollars R Yeah,
Speaker 1: are you sure? Yes, yes, this is a very popular brand,
Speaker 1: but it is more one of those sort of boogie styles.
Speaker 1: It is quite expensive. It is organic as well, so
Speaker 1: you know, we do know organic products do cost a
Speaker 1: lot more. So it's a Coyo organic coconut yogurt, Greek
Speaker 1: style yogurt. So we've got organic coconut cream fifty two percent,
Speaker 1: so that's a lot. The other one was based on
Speaker 1: coconut milk. This is coconut cream. That's a heavy amount
Speaker 1: of saturated fat. Without having looking at the nutritional panel,
Speaker 1: we've got followed by water, organic coconut milk, powder, organic
Speaker 1: tapiocre starch, and live cultures. So I do like the
Speaker 1: addition of the live cultures. This is a pretty you know,
Speaker 1: quote unquote clean ingredient list, But I can I know
Speaker 1: exactly what the nutrition panel has got to say as
Speaker 1: to use Suzi, just from looking at the fifty two
Speaker 1: percent coconut cream so per serving, and bear in mind
Speaker 1: that the serving size is only one hundred gram, so
Speaker 1: it's half the amount of the woolst plantitude one per serving.
Speaker 1: We've got seven hundred and sixteen kilodels, so the amount
Speaker 1: of calories or kilodols in it Suzi is very similar
Speaker 1: and it's half the amount in terms of serving size.
Speaker 1: We've got less than a gram of protein, sixteen grams
Speaker 1: of total fat with fifteen point two grams of saturated fat.
Speaker 1: That is an incredibly high amount of saturated fat per
Speaker 1: hundred gram serving. We've got six grams of carbs, especially
Speaker 1: quite a low amount of carbohydrate because it is such
Speaker 1: a high fat product, with one point four grams of
Speaker 1: that being sugar, So there's actually no added sugar in
Speaker 1: this product, which is nice, obviously, no dietary fiber, and
Speaker 1: a very minimal amount six milligrams of sodium, which you
Speaker 1: know we wouldn't even really consider. So overall, Susie it
Speaker 1: packs a punch in terms of calories and saturated fat.
Speaker 1: If you had a child that was dairy free and
Speaker 1: needed to gain weight, this is probably a good option
Speaker 1: for them because it is quite calorie dense. But if
Speaker 1: your goal this fat loss, I would be running for
Speaker 1: the hills away from this product. Suzi, Like, fifteen grams
Speaker 1: of saturated fat and one hundred gram serving is monster,
Speaker 1: isn't it.
Speaker 2: It's good for ketogenic diet. If you want a joukito,
Speaker 2: you could absolutely use this. Yeah, it's it's terrible, Like
Speaker 2: it's got almost your entire upper daily recommended intake of
Speaker 2: saturated fat in one hundred grams, which is tiny it
Speaker 2: that's about half a cup. You know, this brand, people
Speaker 2: love it. It's been around, you know. Obviously they're paying
Speaker 2: twelve dollars for it. Some people love it. There's nothing
Speaker 2: positive nutritionally I could say about it. The only people
Speaker 2: I could think who could call Prayed into their diet
Speaker 2: regime would be large males who are fully on keto.
Speaker 1: Or young children needing to gain weight.
Speaker 2: Well, even then, there's better choices, you know, for kids
Speaker 2: to gain weight, you'd say avocado nutspread. You know, I
Speaker 2: wouldn't be reaching for this for even for them. As
Speaker 2: I said, the only people I can imagine using this
Speaker 2: product with this pe full adult male and not female
Speaker 2: because two high in calories for them and too high
Speaker 2: in carb overall. Really on a Keto plan for women.
Speaker 2: For men, a large male who was on full keto
Speaker 2: I could use it. That's the only person.
Speaker 1: And even looking at the addition of the live cultures,
Speaker 1: I mean it's got Greek style yoga. You would hope
Speaker 1: that there's some live cultures in there, but I don't
Speaker 1: think it really has much of a probotic addition at all.
Speaker 1: Like they haven't said what cultures, they haven't said the amount.
Speaker 1: I honestly think there's just the tiniest little sprinkle of
Speaker 1: live cultures in there. I don't think it is even
Speaker 1: remotely similar to natural Greek style yogurt. So I would
Speaker 1: definitely not be buying this for the live yogat cultures
Speaker 1: or the gut health benefits. I really don't think you're
Speaker 1: going to get many in this at all. I think
Speaker 1: the Greek style is more just a marketing kind of
Speaker 1: con if we will, because there's no mention of how
Speaker 1: many cultures, what types, what bacteria is actually in there
Speaker 1: as well, So I definitely wouldn't be buying this for
Speaker 1: the gut health benefits because I don't think there really
Speaker 1: are many in this product.
Speaker 2: No, that's a fair call. And this is the problem
Speaker 2: with putting it near the yogurt. It really needs to
Speaker 2: be in a separate section. I think nutritionally it's really misleading.
Speaker 1: But Susie Saving Grace our third product. This is a
Speaker 1: new one in the supermarkets and it's very interesting because
Speaker 1: you'd read the front of label and just like the
Speaker 1: previous one, you'd probably think, oh, well, you know, it's
Speaker 1: no good, it's all just marketing, fuzzy buzzy. But it's
Speaker 1: got five Hellstars Suzi, which you know hellstars have a
Speaker 1: positive and a negative you know, association with them. But
Speaker 1: you know, if it's got five hell Stars compared to
Speaker 1: similar products in their niche, so with other non dairy
Speaker 1: type yogurts, it's got to be quite good. So it's
Speaker 1: the Vitas Greek style soy yogurt, the plain, thick and
Speaker 1: creamy Greek style type. So it's got ninety three percent
Speaker 1: Australian ingredients, so I love that it's based on mostly
Speaker 1: Aussie ingredients. It does have a few extra ingredients in there,
Speaker 1: But I think it's all building more nutritious products. So
Speaker 1: when we look at the ingredient list, we've got filtered
Speaker 1: soy milk, We've got whole soy beans at least sixteen percent.
Speaker 1: We've got soy protein in there three point two percent.
Speaker 1: We've got sugar, cocoa, butter, stabilizers, minerals, calcium phosphates, so
Speaker 1: great that it's actually a little bit fortified. We've got
Speaker 1: natural flavors, sea salt, live vegan cultures, vitamins vitamin D
Speaker 1: and vitamin B twelve, which are really important if you're
Speaker 1: at a plant based diet. We've got there's a live
Speaker 1: vegan cultures, are yogurt cultures, S thermopolis, L Bolgius, probotic cultures,
Speaker 1: B lactics. So the fact that they've even just named
Speaker 1: the cultures in there is ten, you know, plus points
Speaker 1: compared to the other product. So their serving size is
Speaker 1: one hundred and forty gram so forty grams more than
Speaker 1: their COO brand five hundred and six kilodels, so two
Speaker 1: hundred kilodels less for forty grams more, which we love,
Speaker 1: so you get to eat more. So if the goal
Speaker 1: is fat loss, that's wonderful you're eating more for less
Speaker 1: calories or less kilodels. We've got nine point four four
Speaker 1: grams of protein for the one hundred and forty grams serving,
Speaker 1: which is excellent, six point four grams of fat with
Speaker 1: two point one of them being saturated to a lot
Speaker 1: better fat mix. Six point two grams of carbohydrate, so
Speaker 1: quite low carbohydrate compared to even traditional yogurt, with two
Speaker 1: point eight of that being sugar. We know that most
Speaker 1: of that's added sugar, which two point eight grams per serving, Susie,
Speaker 1: is actually quite low. So I'd be more than happy
Speaker 1: to recommend that minimal dietary fiber and sodium at ninety
Speaker 1: five milligrams. So I think this is absolutely our winner
Speaker 1: and our standout non dairy yogurt for today, Susie, just
Speaker 1: in terms of it's lower it's lower energy, it's higher protein,
Speaker 1: it's fortified with calcium, vitamin D B twelve, and it's
Speaker 1: got our live cultures in there as well. To me,
Speaker 1: this is a standard I probably wouldn't recommend anything else for,
Speaker 1: you know, my plant based clients or my dairy free clients.
Speaker 2: Well, let's be honest, there has been few excited dietitians
Speaker 2: for a product launch as this product is generated, because
Speaker 2: I'll tell you why. If you're a dietitian and you
Speaker 2: have someone who doesn't have or tolerate, and you're trying
Speaker 2: to give them snack foods and get their calcium and
Speaker 2: protein up, you're so limited because you can't use cheese,
Speaker 2: you can't use milk, and so we have not had
Speaker 2: a plant based yoga that we I think you and
Speaker 2: I reviewed when an activ or one when we first
Speaker 2: started the Bready, but that's not available anymore, and that
Speaker 2: didn't have anywhere near the amount of protein. So finally
Speaker 2: we've got one, and that this comes in both flavored
Speaker 2: varieties and nutritionally it's really strong. Now I'm not a
Speaker 2: soy person, I don't know how it tastes, but I
Speaker 2: can say online it's going crazy, which makes me think
Speaker 2: that they've done an amazing job at formulating something that
Speaker 2: tastes good, lu likely and it's nutritionally really strong, with
Speaker 2: ting grams of protein, perserve, minimal added sugars. You know
Speaker 2: the only thing though, why have they not labeled my
Speaker 2: calcium on here?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I just pulled a nutrition panel from Wollworth Online
Speaker 1: website so it might actually label it on Let's just
Speaker 1: have a quick.
Speaker 2: Look, because I actually looked it up and I think
Speaker 2: it is there, so you're right. Maybe it's just not
Speaker 2: on the Wooly site, but actually from memory because I
Speaker 2: looked it up, think it's all right too.
Speaker 1: And I forgot to menage the prices so per little
Speaker 1: one hundred and forty gram pots, so they're in the
Speaker 1: single serve little pots two dollars seventy So it is
Speaker 1: actually I would say more of an expensive option, but
Speaker 1: absolutely you know quality. I would say good money spent
Speaker 1: if you're someone who needed a dairy free yogurt, so
Speaker 1: cause I've just pulled it up on Wallas online. So
Speaker 1: per one hundred and forty gram serving. So for the
Speaker 1: little tub, we've got one hundred and sixty eight milligrams
Speaker 1: of calcium, so lower than what we'd like, but still
Speaker 1: a good amount. We've got point two eight micrograms of
Speaker 1: B twelve and one microgram of vitamin D, so we're getting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when you look at the adult RDI as, you're getting
Speaker 1: roughly just over twenty percent of calcium, fourteen percent RDI
Speaker 1: B twelve, and about ten percent of your vitamin DBI
Speaker 1: so RDI and in terms of prodic count we've got
Speaker 1: one hundred and forty million CFUs in terms of the probotic,
Speaker 1: so that it's just a great nutritious, well rounded product.
Speaker 1: I must admit I haven't tried it, but I really
Speaker 1: I'm just praying that it stacks up in terms of
Speaker 1: taste because nutritionally, Susie, it's so strong, it's it's got
Speaker 1: to be the best one on the market Australia at
Speaker 1: the moment.
Speaker 2: It's outstanding and just well done to Vita Soil. You know,
Speaker 2: we're very critical of companies at times, but credit where
Speaker 2: credits due. We have been desperate for a decent plant
Speaker 2: based yoga that offers what we're looking for, which is protein,
Speaker 2: calcy vitamin B twelve. This is a really strong choice. Nutritionally,
Speaker 2: they've done outstanding to formulate it. We've got a plain variety,
Speaker 2: we've got a flavored variety, and you know, for good reason,
Speaker 2: it's got five health stars. So this will certainly be
Speaker 2: in the meal plans of many of my dairy free
Speaker 2: slash plant based diets in the future.
Speaker 1: And like we always say, guys, supermarkets stock products based
Speaker 1: on demand. If you are dairy free. If you live
Speaker 1: a cramp blazed lifetyle, buy this in bulk, give it
Speaker 1: a shout out, child and socials, tell your friends and
Speaker 1: family to buy. If you don't buy it, just like
Speaker 1: that activity yogurt were reviewed, it will go out of
Speaker 1: stock and there will be no more so even if
Speaker 1: it's not the best tasting thing in the world, add
Speaker 1: some cereal to it, add some fruit to it, I
Speaker 1: don't know, put some choc chips and it make it
Speaker 1: taste a bit better. Get it down by it so
Speaker 1: it can stick around on the shelves because it is
Speaker 1: a great nutritious product for our non dairy listeners at home.
Speaker 1: So absolutely get your family and friends to buy it
Speaker 1: so it sticks around a little bit longer. But only
Speaker 1: we're worst not Coles at the moment. Yeah I hope hopefully,
Speaker 1: yeah hopefully, But at the moment, just at well West yeap.
Speaker 2: So if you look at if you're struggling to find it,
Speaker 2: you gotta go to Willies.
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