Diet Food Reviews
Cascade Fresh Plain Yogurt
By: | Jul 26, 2009
Plain yogurt is a staple in my refrigerator - it's packed with protein and calcium, and the fat-free kind has a reasonable number of calories. I usually buy Dannon All Natural Nonfat Plain Yogurt, but since I was in the organic/natural foods section of the grocery store when I decided I needed yogurt, I decided to look around for a suitable replacement. My eyes fell on Cascade Fresh Fat Free Yogurt, with its appealing blue/ green color scheme and mountain and milk bottle design on the front. It didn't hurt that each yogurt was only $0.79, the same price as my Dannon yogurt and less expensive than other all-natural varieties. I threw a couple in my basket and marched up to the cash register to buy my yogurt.
Before starting in on the yogurt, I examined the package. In doing so, I discovered that Cascade Fresh has 8 live active cultures and the ingredient list is refreshingly short, containing only Grade A pasteurized nonfat milk, pectin, and active cultures. As for taste, I found this to be much creamier than some other nonfat plain yogurts. As I do with all of my unsweetened yogurt, I did add some Splenda, which made for a heavenly dairy dessert. I liked the thickness of the yogurt too - much thicker than Dannon Light 'n Fit, but not as thick as Greek yogurt.
Each 6 ounce cup of Cascade Fresh Plain Yogurt provides 80 calories, no fat, 10 grams of protein and 13 grams of sugar but no fiber. There is also 10% of the RDA for potassium (410 mg) and 25% of the RDA for calcium (more details at CascadeFresh.com).
Given the taste, price, and nutrition, I may just have to add this into my yogurt lineup.
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I've bought the big tubs of this at Whole Foods because it was cheaper than most of the other brands. I did like it!
I know this is a review blog, but I would still like to point out how easy it is to make your own yogurt. I picked up a machine super-cheap on clearance at Target a few years ago, and I figure by the time I calculate my costs: $.50 for a quart of 1% milk (from the gallon I buy for my kids) and approximately the same amount for the portion of yogurt starter I get at the health food store and a few pennies for 1/3 cup of powdered milk, I get a quart of homemade yogurt (with only three ingredients!) for about $1.00. It would be about half that if you used your own yogurt as the starter.
So I guess my 6 oz. cup only costs a dime.
Another reason I stopped buying yogurt was because the plastic they all use for their containers is not recyclable.
I've always include yogurt into my regular diet, especially low fat plain yogurt. There are endless amounts of things that you can do with it. Glad to see you've done a review on yogurt!
Cascade Fresh has a bunch of great yogurts, I love the company.
Cascade Fresh seems to have some of the best yogurt options I've seen. Thanks for this review.