For dietary purposes, I’ve been told to start including probiotic rich food in my diet and I figure since people in my house already like yogurt that’s the best way to go. But I absolutely hate the texture of yogurt. How can I change it and still enjoy the health benefits? I don’t love smoothies, but I’ll make one occasionally with yogurt. But I’d prefer to have some variety with this. Adding granola is alright, and definitely helps but even still I find myself just grossed out after two spoonfuls. Is there anything I can do? Is freezing it and turning it into something like frozen yogurt going to kill the cultures? It’s sad, because this is the only food I absolutely cannot seem to find a way to enjoy!
To get frozen yogurt as it’s normal consistency, you also have to add a lot of sugar. Like more sugar than ice cream. Also there is questionable value to the probiotic nature after freezing it.
What kind of yogurt do you usually get? What kind of texture do you want? Because store bought stuff has quite the range. Yoplait basic low end yogurt is practically drinkable, but their “Oui” brand French style yogurt is practically chewable. I really like the Oui but it’s also kind of expensive for what you get so I usually opt to get Greek style because everyone makes it, it’s good, and usually also cheap.
You might also want to try Kefir. It’s probiotic but much more like drinking milk than yogurt. It’s not quite either, but something in between. I pound one of these whenever I’m constipated and it really gets shit moving again, in a literal sense.