Smooth Soya Loveliness (Alpro Soya Yoghurts OY Smooth Strawberry & Banana)

Member Name: InsaneStar

Product:	Alpro Soya Yoghurts OY Smooth Strawberry & Banana
Date:	20/10/09 (42 review reads)
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Advantages: Suitable for vegetarians and vegans, they're smooth and taste great.

Disadvantages: A bit more expensive than traditional yogurts.

These yogurts now come in a four pack with the peach and pear flavour (you get two of each) plus the packaging and name have changed too, they're now called 'Alpro Soya Yogurt Smooth' instead of 'Oy'.
They're not really marketed as a children's yogurt anymore but my receipt still said 'Alpro Junior Yofu' (I'm not sure what the 'Yofu' bit means!).

They cost £1.59 for four 125g yogurts and I bought mine in Sainsbury's although many supermarkets stock them these days as well as some health food shops.

They currently come with Alpro Treat codes which you can redeem online for various things from cereal bowls to yoga mats! (You have to save up but if you buy other Alpro products like soya milk then they'll soon add up).

These yogurts are suitable for vegetarians, vegans, people with nut allergies (produced in a nut-free environment), people with lactose intolerance and are made with non-GM soya beans.

They contain live cultures that aid digestion and 15% of your Recommended Daily Allowance of calcium.

I shook the pot well before opening (as the packaging suggests) and the lid easily peeled off to reveal that none of the yogurt had stuck to it, so no lid-licking for me!

It has a typical yogurty smell and is a very pale pink colour. It looks very smooth too, I couldn't see any bits at all.

The top had a very thick consistency even though I shook it well but I find this happens with most yogurts, although this thick bit is usually stuck to the lid.

The rest is lovely and smooth without being either too thick but it does seem a little thin for my tastes. It's sweet and doesn't have that sourness of some soya yogurts. It has a nice flavour that's mildly strawberry but not overpowering and I couldn't really taste any banana flavouring at all.

These yogurts taste fabulous on their own, over cereal or in smoothies I highly recommend them!

Ingredients:
Water, fruits (11%) [strawberry (7.7%) and banana (3.4%)] hulled soya beans (7.8%), sugar, fructose-glucose syrup, tapioca starch, modified maize starch, tri-calcium phosphate, fruit and plant concentrate, vitamins C, riboflavin and B12, flavouring, stabiliser: pectin and agar, seat salt, acidity regulator: citric acid, live cultures: S. thermophilus and L. bulgarious.

Nutritional Information:
(per 100g)
Energy 341kj/81kcal
Protein 3.9g
Carbohydrates 10.7g
of which sugars 10.0g
of which lactose nil
Fat 2.2g
Fibre 0.8g
Sodium 0.05g
Calcium 120mg (15% RDA)
Vitamin C 5.5mg (9% RDA)
Riboflavin 0.24mg (15% RDA)
B12 0.15µg (15% RDA)

Summary: I highly recommend these wonderful yogurts.