It's always baffled me why some nutrition information panels give the stats for a single serving as well as for the entire package. I mean, if it's a sandwich that could theoretically function as a snack if you eat half or a meal if you eat the whole thing, I get that...sorta. But in this case, I can't feature anyone being like, "I'm gonna down four yogurt packs one right after the other and I really need the nutrition info for the entire box." For one thing, this yogurt is quite thick and filling, and one is more than satisfying.
Furthermore, even in that odd instance that you do chug all four packs at once, most of the stats can easily be calculated in your head. I mean, we all know that 3g of fat times four is 13g.
3 x 4 = 13.
Right? Or that the percentage of daily value for cholesterol per serving, in this case 3%, is 17% if you have all four packs.
3 x 4 = 17.
Am I right? Somebody check my math. Ah, that's silly. These are simple equations. I'm sure I got them all right.
Anyway, I'm just being silly. I know there's some loophole where you can round down grams and percentages to lower numbers if you want to make something look healthier than it actually is, and I've seen such paradoxical statistics before on nutrition information panels. I'm just giving TJ's a hard time. They're just rounding down some numbers.
Know what else they should round down? The packaging. I'm not super ecologically-minded, but it was just Earth Day recently, and this is some of the most overdone packaging I've ever seen from Trader Joe's. The box is enormous. Couldn't they have tied some string around the necks of these squeeze bottles to bind them all together? Even the squeeze bottles themselves are too big. The caps are gigantic. And if you've got people downing all four in one sitting, you might as well just put the whole kit and caboodle in a single plastic bottle.
But I guess the squeezability factor is a must here. This is some thick yogurt. Some people might enjoy that, but if I'm going to be drinking the yogurt, I prefer it a bit thinner and milkier. It's about as thick as regular, spoonable, non-drinkable yogurt. I guess there's nothing that suggests this yogurt has to be drunk. The squeeze pouches could be used to administer small amounts of yogurt to granola, fruit, or smoothies, I suppose, but if that's the case, the packaging seems even more ridiculous.
The flavor is fine. It's berry berry. Get it? I meant "very berry," but I said...nevermind. The spring pollen makes me loopy.
There's a faint hint of beets in this product. Beets are listed just after strawberries in the ingredients list. The overall berry flavor isn't super sweet, either. It's a little more tart than other berry yogurts I've tried. Pretty much everything is organic, which is good.
$4.29 for the pack. It's a bit pricy for what you get if you ask me. I'd take kefir over these, or most other types of drinkable yogurt. Three and a half stars from Sonia. Three from me.
Bottom line: 6.5 out of 10.
So, first off, I imagine that this being targeted at toddlers/babies, because while I don't personally eat/squeeze whole milk yogurt, my toddler does.
ReplyDeleteAlso - the reason for the funny math is that nutritional labels are allowed to round (https://www.labelcalc.com/food-labeling/a-guide-to-using-fda-rounding-rules-for-your-food-label/). So it could have 3.2 g of Fat (which rounds down to 3), and all 4 together have 12.8 g of fat, which rounds up to 13.
I agree with Maggie - these are most likely for toddlers and babies + kids lunchbox fare, which is why the caps are large, for easier gripping and, more important, less choking.
ReplyDeleteThese are designed for toddlers however they are REALLY GOOD! It's annoying because I want this in a larger adult version, lower in sugar too. I work at TJ's btw, I highly recommend you try it.
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