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Rachel's Organic Low Fat Vanilla Yogurt
by xxfoxyredxx
One thing I really do enjoy is yogurt though to be honest I stick to Yeo Valley ones most of the time as I just love it and it is made locally to where I live!
However the other day I spotted this Rachel's one reduced from £1.65 to 45p in my local Tesco store and I bought it thinking it was a plain yogurt and later that ... evening mixed it up with mint to make minty yogurt to go with an Indian meal I cooked! I can't tell you how sick we all felt dipping our nan breads and dipping poppadums in this...its vanilla! Luckily though the whole tub wasn't wasted and I had put half back into my fridge and I enjoyed that the following morning with some fruit for my breakfast...without mint sauce in it too lol.
The Packaging:
The yogurt comes in a light cream plastic tub with yellow flowers on the front of it and also on the front of it we are told that it is Rachel' Organic Low Fat Vanilla Bio-Live Yogurt and that it is 'Even more delicious'. Information on the back of the tub includes being told a bit about the yogurt and the ingredients used as well as allergy advice, storage advice is also listed (once opened consume it within 3 days of opening it), the weight is given which is 450g and contact details for Rachel's Dairy ltd are given. Nice peel back lid to the top of it over a large hole and again on that we are told what it is etc.
The Yogurt:
Forget the fact I didn't read it was vanilla and made the most disgusting dip in history with it through my own stupidity....this is absolutely gorgeous, indulgent , smooth and creamy vanilla tasting yogurt. With no lumps in it and it being not too thick or runny this is a creamy yogurt with a sharp tang to it, a natural sweetness and lovely light taste of really beautiful vanilla that isn't too overpoweing but certinaly there. With less than 2% fat this is fantastic on its own, with fruit or cereal... the next one I buy I'm turning into a smoothie it really is simply delicious hence why at £1.65 a tub it isn't what I'd call cheap as well as the fact that this contains probiotic cultures meant to keep us healthy...and it still tastes amazing!
Made with Madagascan Boubon Vanilla and Welsh Organic Milk this is aimply superb and just oozing quality and taste and I love it!
Nutritional Information Per 100g (The Important Bits):
Energy: 86Kcal
Fat: 1.8g
of which saturates: 1.1g
Available in all good supermarkets etc and other flavours from this brand are also available.
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Rachel's Organic Bio-Live Yogurt
by ladybracknell
Although DooYoo have listed this as generic Bio Live Yogurt, the picture shows the gooseberry variety, which is a new introduction to the Rachel's Bio Yogurt range so that is what I'm reviewing here, although I would add that all the Rachel yogurt varieties are delicious and well worth trying.
As Sainsburys and Tesco were ... still doing a 2 for £3 offer on Rachel's Organic Yogurts, I decided that instead of getting two in my favourite rhubarb variety, I'd experiment with the newly introduced gooseberry yogurt. Suffice to say, this is another triumph for Rachel's Organic.
Rachel's Organic is based in Aberystwyth in Wales and was the first dairy in Britain to be certified organic. Besides a large range of yogurts, the dairy also produces creams and butter as well as a yogurt breakfast pot which incorporates granola. Their products are all suitable for vegetarians and also approved by the Soil Association as being wholly organic. Rachel, herself, had the good sense to sell out and is probably now living in the lap of luxury somewhere warm and sunny, but her ethos of organic and natural products continues.
Price:
These 450g three-serving pots are currently 2 for £3 at Sainsburys
Ingredients:
Organic yogurt (made from whole cows milk)
Organic sugar
Organic gooseberries (5.7%)
Organic rice starch
Natural flavouring
Nutritional values (per 100g):
Energy: 101kcal
Protein: 4%
Carbohydrate: 13.3g
Of which sugars 12.6g
Saturated fat: 2.1g
Fibre: 0.2g
Sodium: 0.06g
Opinion
I am one of those people who prefer fruit from the sour end of the fruity spectrum. I love anything lemon flavoured as well as rhubarb and gooseberries, so I was delighted to discover this new gooseberry variety had been added to the Rachel's Organic yogurt family.
On opening the pot which is decorated in the usual Rachel's Organic attractive and distinctive livery, I found there wasn't an overwhelming aroma of gooseberries just a general fruity scent. The yogurt itself is a creamy blush colour with plenty of fruit pulp in evidence. It looked very appetising and it tasted even more delicious than it looked.
The consistency is that of double cream and because the yogurt contains live bio cultures it's extremely mild without any of that acidic background flavour often found in yogurts without the live cultures. The taste is definitely of gooseberries but isn't at all sour. Having said that, it isn't overpoweringly sweet either, although the ingredients list shows that well over 12% of the contents are, in fact, sugar, so this isn't something for dieters to eat every day. However, a little bit of what you fancy does you good!
Because this yogurt contains gooseberries this does mean that there are pips in it but the fruit has been pulped and so the pips are quite soft in texture. None of the fruit pulp is in huge lumps and it seems to be dispersed evenly throughout the yogurt.
There are a couple of serving suggestions made on the pot. Apart from eating it on its own, it is recommended as an ingredient for smoothies or eaten with cereal. The maker also advises that this product should be eaten within 3 days of opening. My family, despite saying they didn't like gooseberries, made sure it didn't even last three minutes after the lid came off.
If I have any criticism at all it's that these yogurts are in three serving pots which means buyers either need to watch their portion size or buy more than one pot because once you start, it's very difficult to know when to stop.
I regard the fact that it was wolfed down by two people who claim not to like gooseberries as recommendation in itself. I did manage to get a couple of spoonfuls myself before it all disappeared and will certainly be buying this again, though I may possibly hide the next pot at the back of the fridge!
Highly recommended.
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