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Friday, June 26, 2009
Yogen Fruz SmoothiesThere are scents that I regard as pleasant and summery and strawberry-banana is pretty high up there. It’s light, fruity & floral but has a sweet kick to it that I can almost taste when I smell it.
Yogen Fruz is a high-concept frozen yogurt & smoothie chain that began in Toronto and now has over 1,000 stores in 20 countries. In this case it’s the smoothies that have been turned into a line of little candies. The little tin I picked up of the Yogen Fruz Smoothies Strawberry Banana smelled very strong. Even before I took off the plastic overwrap, I had to keep it in a ziploc bag. Aside from the blastingly strong scent, the ingredients are pretty positive: pure cane sugar, yogurt, tartaric acid, malic acid, natural strawberry and banana flavors, ascorbic acid and natural color. Though they’re made with nice ingredients, they’re basically a “tablet candy”, much like a SweeTart though not dextrose-based. They come in a tin, the same one, as far as I can tell, that Godiva uses for their Chocoiste Pearls but in this case I had no trouble with opening & closing it. The little tablets have the umlauted U on them (that conveniently looks like a very big smile) with a light pink speckling. They’re immediately tangy on the tongue and dissolve a little unevenly. It’s both lightly sour and has that yogurt twang. I thought the taste was vibrant and even a bit unique. If you’re looking for an all-natural SweeTart-like product then this is a nice idea though certainly quite expensive. These are made in Canada by Big Sky Brands, who also make the Jones Soda candies.
POSTED BY Cybele AT 7:21 am
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I saw these and another flavor at 7-11 the other day. I thought about picking them up, but I swear that umlaut is looking at me funny.
We have these in Canada as well. I’ve seen them sold at our big bookstores. I tried the same flavour, and I have to say, I found the flavour very off putting. Almost bitter. Possibly a bad tin.
But, it was a nice tin, though! It’s nice to see the companies putting their products into reusable containers, instead of cardboard boxes that end up in the trash.
I think, like the Jones Soda candy, I’d like the concept more than the product. If it’s not frozen, it’s melting these days.
Is these kind of related to the mentos strawberry yougurt?
i just bought these in the blueberry acai flavor about 3 days ago. pretty pleasant.
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