I’ve been a fan of probiotics for about 20 years, which is around the time Stonyfield yogurt became available in Chicago. Since, numerous dairy foods marketers, mostly yogurt manufacturers, have claimed that their products contain probiotics.
As children headed back to classrooms over the last four weeks, the annual (and predictable) chorus of “no flavored milk in schools” was heard across the land. Every year, a
Germantown, Wis.-based Gehl Foods Inc., brings new opportunities to the alternative beverage (ambient) aisle with the introduction of Main St. Café Protein Smoothies.
There’s an old saying, “Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper.” Emerging research confirms that a hearty breakfast with ample protein may indeed be the most important meal of the day, but many Americans either skip breakfast or eat a hasty breakfast that’s low in protein. Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey indicate that Americans typically consume 15% of their daily protein at breakfast.
In May, Danone’s German division switched to a plastic made from plants (not oil) for its Activia yogurt packaging sold in Germany. The new yogurt pack uses a corn-based plastic called Ingeo from NatureWorks, Minnetonka, Minn. Vermont-based Stonyfield Farm converted its four-pack multicups to the same material in October 2010 (see Dairy Foods, November 2010).
