Meiji Yoghurt – Mixed Berry

1292 days ago

Well, taking my doctor’s advise, I decided to eat healthy. I guess the years of eating unhealthy fried stuff everyday has taken it’s toll on me and thus the result was...

Well, taking my doctor’s advise, I decided to eat healthy. I guess the years of eating unhealthy fried stuff everyday has taken it’s toll on me and thus the result was the last 2 weeks of high fever, sore throat, flu, cough and tons of other illness. Sad. Never felt so sick in my life! Spent the entire week in bed like a bed bug and doing nothing but coughing, sneezing and puking. Yes, so I decided not to go through another round of illness and start eating healthy. So I got myself Yoghurt!

I got this Meiji Yoghurt from Sheng Siong. It is yoghurt with mixed berry and it comes with a very attractive packaging. I don’t normally eat yoghurt. The only yoghurt I ever eaten was some chewy candy made from yoghurt and it was sour. But this is surprisingly not sour at all. Perhaps due to the fact that it has a lot of fruit pieces in it. Good for those who don’t really like sour stuff.

Ha, low fat, low cholesterol and with live cultures. I think the live cultures is the yoghurt”bacteria” which is supposed to be good bacteria. It comes with Japanese wordings but of course, it is not made in Japan or made for the Japanese market. Just marketing gimmick.

Looking at the ingredients – it contains fresh milk, strawberry, raspberry and blueberry, sugar, starch, natural flavouring, sodium benzoate and yoghurt culture. The sodium benzoate should be the presevative for the yoghurt. I find it weird that they use preservatives and live cultures as well. Won’t the sodium benzoate kill off any live yoghurt cultures? I would expect that is what preservatives do right? Oh, sorry for the blurred pictures.

This is the photo showing the actual yoghurt. Don’t worry, there are big pieces of berries in the yoghurt. Just that the photo doesn’t show it. If I am not wrong, I believe it contains about 30-40% of fruit pieces. The price is very reasonable as well. About S$1.60 for 2 bottles and you can mix different flavours as well. However, the yoghurt is a bit watery. Unlike the yoghurt we find in stores which are usually rather lumpy, this one looks and feels very watery. I am not saying that it is watered down or anything, but it doesn’t have the “fluffiness” that yoghurt is supposed to be.

Anyway, this dessert taste quite delicious. Not too sweet and definitely not sour. I don’t mind the sourness of yoghurt but others do. So if you are worried about the yoghurt being sour, this dessert will surely surprise you. I am sure that it is also very healthy for you. It works very well as an after meal dessert too. So why not try a dessert that is both healthy and taste great? Furthermore, it won’t burn a hole in your pocket.