{"id":12406,"date":"2012-06-01T00:00:06","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T10:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/?p=12406"},"modified":"2020-12-24T07:39:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T17:39:51","slug":"review-yasso-frozen-greek-yogurt-bars-blueberry-and-strawberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2012\/06\/01\/review-yasso-frozen-greek-yogurt-bars-blueberry-and-strawberry\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: Yasso Frozen Greek Yogurt Bars (Blueberry and Strawberry)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Yasso<\/a><\/p>\n

The chronology of yogurt in this country reads like a\u00c2\u00a0veritable timeline of fads and one-hit wonders. From BMX riding kids glurping Go-Gurt<\/a> to Jamie Lee Curtis giving us advice on tooting, we’ve by now been there and tried that. Somewhere along the way we jumped on board the Greek yogurt express, shelling out double for what we’d pay for regular yogurt and stumbling over the name of everyone’s favorite Greek yogurt company<\/a> like a county music singer trying to learn French.<\/p>\n

With the latest yogurt trends leaning toward lactose-free yogurt and\u00c2\u00a0foreign fermented dairy products with names I can’t pronounce, Greek yogurt has had to up its game to garner attention. Fortunately, thanks to two hippie dudes in Vermont<\/a> and a host of other companies, we’ve recently seen an explosion in “Frozen” Greek Yogurt, which is not to be confused with the kind of frozen Greek yogurt that happens as a result of me sticking my container of Fage into the freezer by mistake.<\/p>\n

Yasso<\/a> might sound like it’s a character of ambiguous gender out of the smash N-64 hit Yoshi’s Story*, but in reality it’s the name of a frozen Greek yogurt company dreamed up by a sporty husband and wife team<\/a>. How sporty? Let’s just say their website boasts of a 4:15 mile accomplishment, which, after reading, I was hoping would also be in my future if I ate their frozen Greek yogurt bars. Suddenly, the whole Achilles story is coming into focus.<\/p>\n

\"Yasso<\/a><\/p>\n

With “all of the goodness, none of the guilt,” Yasso’s 75-gram bars pack only 70 calories, and proudly boasts of containing no corn syrup and no fat. I won’t lie to you; with those kind of stats I was expecting the Blueberry and Strawberry bars I sampled to also contain no taste. Surprisingly they did contain some taste, although unsurprisingly it was not the kind of taste which really gets me excited for a frozen yogurt bar. Perhaps, if you play ice cream truck music in the background and rapidly slurp down a Great White Shark Pop\u00c2\u00a0or Flintstone’s Push-Pop after eating these greek yogurt bars, then you’ll get excited, but otherwise, you know you’re basically eating something healthy with the sole intention of being healthy.<\/p>\n

\"Yasso<\/a><\/p>\n

Both bars have a dull sweetness that I’m willing to bet most people would find completely underwhelming. Using no other sweetener aside from sugar (not even fructose) the bars almost seem to restrain the actual pureed fruit base, which is overshadowed by a clean, albeit slightly boring, milky flavor. Had I not known the blueberry flavor was blueberry, I would have been hard pressed to identify it as anything but “berry,” and unfortunately found no tart or puckering quality about it. The strawberry flavor had a better showing — what, with some actual texture of those little seed things on the outside of the berries — but again, the fruit flavor was less fruit and more mild and milky yogurt. Decent, but not great, and while healthy, not healthy enough to shave roughly three and a half minutes off my mile time.<\/p>\n

I love fruit as much as the next snack food junkie looking to remove the compunction of downing a bag of Fritos, but\u00c2\u00a0I\u00c2\u00a0also know where\u00c2\u00a0to pick my battles. If you’re looking for the most insanely\u00c2\u00a0healthy conception of something frozen on a stick this side of\u00c2\u00a0attempting to grow asparagus in Antarctica,\u00c2\u00a0then these bars are right up your alley. If, however, you’re just a guy looking to try to get a little balance in your dessert life, then might I suggest the tried and true method of sticking a banana in the freezer and calling it an afternoon.<\/p>\n

*If anyone has a copy of this game they are willing to part with, I would very much appreciate it if you’d drop me a line. More to the point, buying it from you would make my life.<\/p>\n

(Editor’s Note\/Disclosure: We received free coupons for free samples for free from the folk at Yasso for free. Free. Free. Free.)<\/b><\/p>\n

(Nutrition Facts – 1 bar -\u00c2\u00a070 calories, 0 calories from fat,\u00c2\u00a00 grams of fat,\u00c2\u00a00 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams trans fat, 5 milligrams of cholesterol, 35-40 milligrams of sodium, 12 grams of carbohydrates, 0 grams of fiber, 11 grams of sugar, 6 grams of protein, and 15% calcium.)<\/small><\/p>\n

Other Yasso Frozen Greek Yogurt Bar reviews:<\/b>
\nFro-Yo Girl<\/a><\/p>\n

Item:<\/b> Yasso Frozen Greek Yogurt Bars (Blueberry and Strawberry)
\nPrice:<\/b> $4.99 (Coupons provided by Yasso super-athletic marketing team)
\nSize:<\/b> 4 pack
\nPurchased at:<\/b> Safeway
\nRating:<\/b>\u00c2\u00a04 out of 10 (Blueberry)
\nRating:<\/b> 5 out of 10 (Strawberry)
\nPros:<\/b> Super healthy. No fat and six grams of protein. Milky fresh taste. No ice crystals. Getting on board the the Greek yogurt bandwagon again. Excuse to YouTube Go-Gurt commercials.
\nCons:<\/b> Vapid level of sweetness. Not guaranteed to make a kid run faster or jump higher. Expensive and somewhat difficult to find in stores. Jamie Lee Curtis commercials. Feelings of athletic impotency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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