Yoplait Frozen Yogurt and Cereal Bars

By: Tanya Taylor, PhD | Aug 15, 2006

Yoplait Frozen Yogurt and Cereal Bars are "vanilla lowfat yogurt with raspberry sorbet and fortified cereal wafers." This is a new product from Yoplait, and since Yoplait makes my favorite low fat yogurt, I had no doubt that I would like this. The bars have a thick frozen yogurt and sorbet middle layer, and the top and bottom is a waffle crust. In other words, this is a thick, ice cream sandwich like treat, only instead of the ice cream, there is frozen yogurt and sorbet, and instead of a cookie outer layer, Yoplait makes it look like a waffle.

When you bite into the bar, you get the taste of cereal and frozen yogurt. There cereal layer does not get soggy, and instead it is a hard but chewy crust which is an excellent compliment to the smooth, creamy, frozen yogurt mixed with the fruity taste from the raspberry sorbet. You also end up biting into small clusters of what I think might be cereal, which is a nice unexpected surprise. There are no clues in the ingredients as to exactly is in the cluster, or if this was even intentional - but regardless, it worked to improve the flavor for me by providing a nice bit of contrasting texture.

My only complaint was that the some of the sorbet settled on one end of the bar, so instead of a nice 'swirl' there was a glob of it at one end. This made the milky, creamy yogurt taste stand out more than the raspberry, until the last few bites when there was a not so pleasant concentration of icy fruit sorbet. I still liked this bar better than the other Yoplait Yogurt and Cereal Bar I reviewed - the one that looked like a fudgesicle, but instead of fudge there was cold cereal [read the review].

When I was eating this, it was so good, so rich, so creamy that I just knew in my mind that there is no way that this had a low calorie count. Turns out I was somewhat right - it depends on how many calories you want in a snack. One cereal bar is 200 calories, 4.5 grams total fat and 1.5 grams of saturated fat (7 and 8% of the recommended daily amount), 1 gram of trans fat, 36 grams total carbohydrate, which includes no fiber, 17 grams of sugar. There is also 15-20% of many vitamins and minerals, and 40% of the daily requirement for zinc. Hidden in the ingredients of the frozen yogurt is the artificial sweetener acesulfame K.

Yoplait Frozen Yogurt and Cereal Bars cost $2.50 for a box of 4 (on sale), and although I enjoyed eating it, and could have lived with the 200 calories, I am very anti ANY trans fat in any food product. That alone makes me think I might not buy this product again, but the food scientist in me also didn't like the fact that the sorbet settled at one end, so, unfortunately, I will have to pass on this product. I still love you Yoplait - still one of my favorite food companies, and I'm still a loyal customer (just of other products).

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