The good news – kids love yogurt, and are snacking on it in higher numbers! Grab a yogurt today! While fresh fruit remains the most-consumed kids snack, refrigerated yogurt showed the largest growth in number of units consumed per child last year as compared with 2008, according to a kids’ snack category growth ranking released by The NPD Group. Yogurt … Read More
New Yogurt Plant Being Built in Vermont
A new yogurt facility broke ground in Brattleboro, Vermont this week. Commonwealth Dairy yogurt ompany will make yogurt for other companies under private label and will sell its own all-natural “Mountainberry” brand product. “This is an exciting and critical milestone in the evolution of our project” stated Dieter Dobousek, Commonwealth Dairy’s vice president and chief technical officer. “It has taken … Read More
Yogurt is Top Trend
The Dairy Council of California is encouraging Americans are eating more of the food trend of the decade: yogurt! Yogurt was named the food trend of the decade by Harry Balzer, Vice President with the market research firm NPD Group. “It’s very convenient. It’s very individualized …” said Balzer of yogurt in a Jan. 1 interview with National Public Radio. … Read More
New Yogurt Parfait at Chick-fil-A
Chick-fil-A will introduce a yogurt parfait, right in time for all of those New Year’s resolutions to eat healthy! The new Yogurt Parfait includes slices of fresh strawberries, covered in creamy, vanilla yogurt topped with either Chick-fil-A’s own Harvest Nut Granola blend or Chocolate Cookie Crumbs. Topped with granola, the Yogurt Parfait has 240 calories and 5 grams of fat, … Read More
Dairy Producers Help Grow Sales with New Yogurt Smoothie Product
Here’s a new product worth talking about: Yoplait® Yogurt Chips. Did you know that as a dairy producer you helped to launch this new product, which use both yogurt and milk, through your dairy checkoff investment? Dairy Management Inc., in partnership with General Mills, owner of the Yoplait® brand, helped to developed this new line of frozen fruit and yogurt … Read More
Cheers to Day One of Dairy Month!
Today is June 1, and I probably don’t have to remind any of you that today launches the first official day of June Dairy Month. In honor of this celebratory month, I found an interesting column written by Roxie Rodgers Dinstel in the News Miner that is worth highlighting. The column is titled, June is dairy month, so drink milk … Read More
Dairy Crest Sells Yogurt Portion
Dairy Crest has taken a big step in easing its debt position by selling its 49% stake in yogurt group Yoplait Dairy Crest for £63.5m. Following the sale, the dairy products group now expects its net debt at year end to be about £435m. Dairy Crest, whose brands include Country Life butter and Cathedral City cheese, said the sale was … Read More
Dannon to Follow Yoplait Switch
Dannon announced this week that it will stop using milk from cows treated with rBST in its yogurts by the end of 2009. Dannon’s decision comes on the heels of rival Yoplait’s announcement that it would eliminate rBGH (recombinant bovine growth hormone) from its product line. The companies were pressed to halt the use of rBGH milk after more than … Read More
Yoplait Yogurt to Change Key Ingredient
General Mills has announced that it will stop using milk from cows treated with rbST in its Yoplait yogurt by August of 2009. The company claims the move is motivated by consumers wanting the change. “While the safety of milk from cows treated with rBST is not at issue, our consumers were expressing a preference for milk from cows not … Read More
Probiotic Yogurt Cheese Introduced
Applegate Farms, has introduced Yogurt Cheese with probiotics. The product is a pre-sliced cheese that contains probiotics, beneficial microorganisms in the form of live active cultures. Applegate Farms new yogurt cheese is made from yogurt that is certified with “live and active cultures,” having at least 100 million bacteria per gram at the time of manufacture. There are three main … Read More