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Cascade Fresh Fat Free Yogurt
By: Caroline Yoder | May 10, 2007
This review was done by Caroline Yoder. Caroline is currently a student at Duke University, studying English and Psychology. She hopes one day to become a writer in the health field. She is a vegetarian but enjoys writing about all healthful eating.
After considerable deliberation, I settled on Cascade Fresh Fat Free Yogurt.Cascade Fresh offers the standard flavors such as blueberry and strawberry, but also produces a few unexpected variations, such as apricot-mango and my personal favorite, orange Creamsicle. Cascade Fresh yogurt is all natural, free of additives and artificial colors; the milk used is even derived of cows that are not treated with rGBH hormones. The website boasts that their yogurt contains 8 active cultures and, most pertinent to my search, it is sweetened with natural fruit juice - precisely the kind of yogurt I was looking for. All the flavors were quite delectable; they were still sufficiently creamy for being nonfat and maintained a nice consistency after stirring. The only drawback was that the flavor is concentrated on the bottom so be sure to combine well before eating. Nutritionally speaking, Cascade Fresh yogurt has nothing to hide. A 6 ounce container contains 110 calories, no fat, 7 grams of protein and 20 grams of total carbohydrates which includes 16 grams of sugars and no fiber. There is also 25% of your RDA for calcium. The 16 grams of sugar may seem a tad high, but you must take into account that all dairy contains milk sugars, and the remaining sugar is from fruit juice. Overall, I definitely consider Cascade Fresh yogurt a keeper. I now consistently buy a few containers each week. At Whole Foods they cost $0.79 each. If you’re tired of artificially sweetened yogurt impostors, you should definitely consider this brand. Taste:
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Comments
Thu: May 10, 2007
Gal Josefsberg said: Thank you for the information. I was looking for good options for a healthy breakfast snack and completely overlooked yogurt. GJ
Tue: December 18, 2007
sabrina hays said: WOW,this yogurt is great! it is made from milk that contains NO hormones and it is full of several different probiotics! and it isnt sweetened with sugar or man made sugars either! it is sweetened from fruit juice. FAT FREE also! this is a great yougurt! the only one i buy! good when your trying to lose weight!
Thu: January 3, 2008
STEVE CLEMENT said: please let me know if the Cascade Fresh fat free yogurt orange cream, lemon shiffon are GLUTEN FREE?? The ingredients indicated they are but I need to know for sure. Thanks, Steve.
Thu: January 3, 2008
Tanya  said:
Yes - all Cascade Fresh products are gluten free [source: Cascade Fresh FAQ]. "Yes, all our products are gluten free. Each and every ingredient we use in our Cascade Fresh products is 100% gluten and wheat free. For stabilizer we use a small amount of tapioca, which comes from the cassava root, and pectin, which comes from citrus. The fruit juice concentrate is made from pineapples, peaches, pears, and apples."
Fri: February 22, 2008
Jennifer said: I will buy this yogurt as long as they make it! It's soooo delicious! You'd never guess it has about 8-10 grams LESS sugar than most other brands... It's the best EVER!
Thu: February 28, 2008
Natasha said: I won't eat other yogurt - I drive to the ends of the earth (well, across town) for it. Cascade Fresh rocks! |
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A few months ago, I decided that I had had a few too many liquidy, fruit-flavored concoctions that call themselves “yogurt.” After so many dairy disasters, I decided that the artificial sweeteners were to blame. Granted, some brands manage to make artificially-sweetened yogurt quite delectable, such as Yoplait Light [
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thestarhopper said:
I too LOVE this yogurt. I especially like the fact that there is real fruit in it and that I have to work to blend the combination of fresh plain yogurt and the concentrate at the bottom. I throw in some Uncle Sam's original for added flax and fiber, chase the mix with some herbal tea and call it a night.