Diet Food Reviews

Fage Total 2% Yogurt with Honey

By: Ellen | Jun 3, 2010

I've gotten a little tired of my usual Fage Total 0% and having to add sweetener and vanilla or cinnamon! I therefore decided to give Fage Total 2% with Honey a shot. I don't have much honey in my regular diet, but I do like it in theory, so I was excited to try this treat. Plus I loved the plain Fage Total 2% Yogurt and the fruit flavored Fage Total 2% Cherry Greek Yogurt (although the Peach - not so much).

The first thing I have to say about this: there is a LOT of honey. When I first started eating this, the honey/yogurt combination was great. I wasn't expecting the sweetness of the honey to go so well with the creamy richness of the yogurt, but they were perfect together. The way I ate this was to take a little bit of honey on the tip of my spoon and then dip the honeyed spoon in the yogurt half of the container. I let the flavors mingle in my mouth - yum! But after about eating about halfway through the entire amount of honey in the container, the sweetness got to be a little too much. I guess the good thing about having the honey in a separate compartment is that you don't have to go through all of it.

Fage is an all natural yogurt snack, and the ingredients are simply, Strained Yogurt [Grade A Pasteurized Skimmed Milk and Cream, Live Active Yogurt Cultures (L. Bulgaricus, S. Thermophilus)], Honey (20 %).

More Reviews on Fage

• Fage Total 2% Peach Greek Yogurt
• Fage Total 2% Cherry Greek Yogurt
• Fage Fat Free Greek Yogurt

If you're looking to decrease your calorie intake, then this might not be the yogurt for you (or me), because each 5.3 ounce container of Fage Total 2% Yogurt with Honey provides 29 grams of sugar and 180 calories. There is also 10 grams of protein and only 4% of the daily value for total fat.

That's a pretty high calorie and sugar count, comparable to even other products in this brand, like the Fage Total 2% Cherry Greek Yogurt which has 17 grams of sugar (and I even thought that was high too). I picked up my combined yogurt and honey container for $1.99, and while I liked this somewhat, I think from now on I'll make my own version: a 130-calorie cup of Fage Total 2% Yogurt (with more muscle-building protein and bone-building calcium) and a little dab of honey.
(And the Fage $0.50 off coupon we previously mentioned is still available).

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