To Hell With The Yogurt Machine After All

Enough about Fage already, has anyone met my newer, more expensive, and Icelandic-style favorite yogurt?

Allow me to introduce Siggi's:

My co-worker brought the Pear & Mint variety to work one day, and by 9pm that night, I possessed three kinds (purchased at Whole Foods) for tasting. Siggi's has not only a creamy deliciousness, but also a great story. Siggi, a NYC transplant from Iceland, missed his homeland's special skyr (a strained, fat free type of yogurt) so much that he started producing it himself in the U.S.

Since I'm currently reading a book about healthier, more natural eating, I especially like the fact that Siggi's is all natural, using milk from grass fed cows and produced without using rBGH. The yogurt is also sweetened using agave syrup, which is low on the glycemic index, which means...no aspartame, sucralose, gelatin, artificial colorings, preservatives, or high fructose corn syrup.

For those disbelievers, here's the nutritional info from the Pomegranate & Passion Fruit label:
Ingredients: Skim Milk, Agave Nectar, Passion Fruit, Pomegranate, Live Active Cultures, Vegetable Rennet

Refreshingly pronounceable, don'tcha think?

After tasting all three varieties shown above, I can say that the flavors are subtle and the yogurt definitely tart. However, I felt full and satisfied after eating a container for my afternoon work snack.Even though I didn't try the Plain variety, its basic richness would probably taste delish as a sauce, with some fresh dill mixed in perhaps. Finally, the label possesses such a simple and elegant design that I didn't want to peel it off, as instructed, in order to recycle the container. But I'm glad that I did -- because there's even more of Siggi's story on the inside label!

Comments

[claire v.]

pear and mint - yummm!

[General Disarray]

Weird. Ms.Clairvoyant brought some home the other night.