All the Current Froyo Offerings at Whole Foods Pasadena

 

Fro-yo girl here. After seeing so many froyo products for sale at the Bristol Farms in South Pasadena, I felt inspired to see what the froyo selection was at the other supermarkets in town.

The Whole Foods in Pasadena on Arroyo is one of their larger, nicer locations. Here’s a look at what froyo products they’re currently selling:

• 365 by Whole Foods Market offers two flavors of organic Greek yogurt dessert bars: mango and blueberry. Each box contains four bars.
• Alden’s Organic provides one flavor of yogurt bars: strawberry. Each box includes four bars.
• Jeni’s frozen dessert sandwiches come in two varieties made with froyo: key lime pie and triple berry tart. The cookies and froyo are superior to typical frozen dessert sandwiches.
• Yasso bars: Whole Foods features a wide variety of Yasso’s Greek frozen yogurt bars. Each box has four bars.

Bristol Farms has more froyo products than Whole Foods, but Whole Foods has its own brand of froyo bars.

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* WHOLE FOODS: 465 S Arroyo Pkwy, Pasadena, CA 91105

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Aldi Half-Dipped Mint Chip Yogurt Bars Review

 

Fro-yo girl here. Aldi just introduced Half Dipped Mint Chip Yogurt Bars (yes, there’s only one flavor). A box comes with four individually wrapped yogurt bars. A box is $3.69.

One bar is 2.65 fl oz and has 100 calories, 6g total fat, 15g total carbs, 9g total sugars, and 2g protein. It’s sweetened with allulose, sugar, tapioca syrup, cultured whey, erythritol, stevia, and monk fruit. Wow, that’s a lot of different sweeteners!

Half-Dipped Mint Chip Yogurt Bars: The mint froyo is white with little chocolate flecks. The chocolate shell is thin, sweet, and crispy. The shell was quite nice. The yogurt part is soft, creamy, and light, almost whipped in texture. It melts fast. The peppermint flavor is very strong and also slightly bitter. I like mint but I thought the mint flavor was too strong to the point of being harsh.

You know you love me. X0 X0, fro-yo girl.

3.5 out of 5 stars.

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Alden’s Organic Greek Yogurt Bar Review

Fro-yo girl here. Alden’s Organic Greek Yogurt Bars were marked with a New For You sign at Sprouts in Eagle Rock (Los Angeles). One box contains four individually wrapped bars. Each bar is 2.5 fl oz. A box was $5.99 on sale and $7.99 regular price.

For some reason, the new bars are not listed on the Alden’s Ice Cream website. I also could not find a press release about the new bars. Sprouts had two flavors: Mint Fudge Twist, Chocolate Fudge Twist.

Mint Fudge Twist bars are made with real organic fudge and organic Greek yogurt. They’re non-GMO, gluten-free, and free of high fructose corn syrup, artificial sweeteners, artificial flavoring, artificial coloring, carrageenan, and antibiotics. And they contain live & active probiotic cultures. The bar looked like a Yasso bar, with the fudge swirled into the mint yogurt. The texture was close to ideal: creamy, smooth, and soft. The bar did not taste like yogurt but it had a nice, refreshing mint flavor. It wasn’t crazy sweet and the fudge was nice – you could taste it and the flavor wasn’t overwhelming. I couldn’t taste the monk fruit. It was masked by the other flavors.

One bar is 90 calories with 3g total fat, 14g total carbs, 11g total sugars, and 2g protein.

Update: The press release came out. The available flavors are:

• Mango Twist
• Chocolate Fudge Twist
• Mint Fudge Twist
• Espresso Twist
• Salted Caramel Twist
• Strawberry Twist

You know you love me. X0 X0, fro-yo girl.

4 out of 5 stars.

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Momchilovtsi Yogurt Ice Cream Bars Review

Fro-yo girl here. I found new Momchilovtsi yogurt ice cream bars while shopping at 99 Ranch Market in Alhambra, CA. One box was $10.99 (regular price) and contains 4 popsicles. They’re the most expensive popsicles that 99 Ranch Market carries.

The bars come in two flavors, Original and Rose. I spotted the Original flavor at 99 Ranch Market in San Gabriel but when I went back the next Ttime, they didn’t have any.

Momchilovtsi is a Chinese brand and the yogurt bars are made in Shanghai by Bright Dairy’s subsidiary, Shanghai Yimin No 1 Food Co. The brand is named after a tiny Bulgarian village. drinks The Momchilovtsi yogurt brand was launched in 2009. In April 2019, Bright Dairy acquired Shanghai Yimin No 1 Food Factory; Yimin specializes in ice cream, confectionery products, and cold drinks. This led to the launch of Momchilovtsi yogurt ice cream bars.

Rose yogurt ice cream bar: Not only is each bar individually wrapped in plastic, but each bar comes in a separate box. The wooden popsicle stick is stamped with the Momchilovtsi name. The text on the box is in Chinese only. The bar was a pretty pale pink. The texture was very creamy and soft. I could taste the roses and cream much more than any yogurt flavors. It was sweet but not super sweet. There was a hint of yogurt flavor but no tang. It’s richer than Yasso. One bar is 120 calories, 4.5g total fat, 14g total carbs, 11g total sugars and 2g proteins.

As a yogurt lover, I prefer more tang and yogurt flavor but if you’re looking for a rich, creamy, mild yogurt ice cream bar, try Momchilovtsi.

4 out of 5 stars.

You know you love me. X0 X0, fro-yo girl.

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Revele, Maker of the World’s First Vegan Chocolate Covered Frozen Yogurt Bars, Is No More

Fro-yo girl here. It just struck me that I haven’t seen anything from Revele in over a year. Based in Huntington Beach, California, the dessert start-up launched the world’s first vegan chocolate covered frozen yogurt bars in late 2019. I first heard about Revele, at that time called Revele Gelato, in late 2017, when they introduced whipped gelato pints. Made with real milk, cream, and sugar, Revele Gelato was a better-for-you, low calorie treat (80-90 calories per serving, with no sugar substitutes). They didn’t have froyo at the time, so I wasn’t too interested.

During the summer of 2018, they introduced a new line of products, whipped frozen Greek yogurt bars. They were hard to find but I finally tracked them down in early 2019. I didn’t like them.

Then, in October 2019, Revele (no longer Revele Gelato), they introduced the world’s first vegan chocolate covered frozen yogurt bars. In another first, Revele was the first to use allucose, a naturally occurring rare sugar, in a frozen dessert. They moved away from whipping their product with air and emphasized the probiotics, low calorie, and plant-based nature of their new froyo bars. The available flavors were Yellow Chocolate Covered Cinnamon Banana, Pink Chocolate Covered Matcha Tea, Dark Chocolate Covered Toasted Coconut, Milk Chocolate Covered Snickerdoodle and Toffee Bits, and Milk Chocolate Covered Toffee. They were clearly created with the snacking millennial in mind.

The last Instagram post by Revele was on November 28, 2019. I’m unable to view the website or Facebook page. The last tweet was on June 20, 2019. RIP, Revele.

You know you love me. X0 X0, fro-yo girl.

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Yasso Chocolate Dipped Bars Review

Vanilla chocolate crunch

Sea salt caramel chocolate crunch

Fro-yo girl here. Yasso recently introduced a new line of chocolate dipped Greek frozen yogurt bars. The Greek yogurt bars have a milk chocolate or dark chocolate coating with crisped quinoa. Bars are 140-160 calories each with 4g of protein, live and active cultures, and no high intensity sweeteners. They sounded right up my alley, since I like crunchy chocolate dipped bars and clearly love froyo.

I found two flavors at Vons and it didn’t seem like they carried the other two flavors, based on the shelf tags. They were $6.79 each, $1.30 more than the suggested retail price. One box has four individually wrapped bars. Each bar is 2.65 oz. The bars are gluten-free. One bar of salted caramel chocolate crunch has 150 calories, 7g total fat, 18g total carbs, 15g total sugars and 4g protein. The ingredients list is relatively short and natural sounding.

The bars are smaller than the regular Yasso bars. A regular Yasso bar is 3.5 oz. The chocolate dipped bars are about 3.5 inches in length, 2 inches in height, and 1 inch wide. 

Vanilla Chocolate Crunch: You can’t easily tell this from the packaging, but some of the bars have a milk chocolate coating and others have a dark chocolate coating. Vanilla Chocolate Crunch bars feature a milk chocolate shell that’s thin and crisp, with added crunch from the crisped quinoa. I was impressed with the flavor and texture of the chocolate shell. The vanilla froyo on the inside is soft and creamy with a distinctive vanilla flavor and a subtle yogurt flavor. It’s hard to tell that it’s frozen yogurt but it’s still a delicious, fairly healthy treat.

Sea Salt Caramel Chocolate Crunch: I don’t usually like salted caramel but Yasso’s version wasn’t cloyingly sweet. The dark chocolate shell was thicker than the milk chocolate shell and also very tasty.

I slightly preferred the Vanilla Chocolate Crunch since I like vanilla froyo better than salted caramel froyo, but I liked the dark chocolate shell better than the milk chocolate shell. I remember how much I liked their pb dipped chocolate bar years ago but I haven’t seen it for years. I’m excited to find the new Peanut Butter Chocolate Crunch bars.

The indulgent yet healthy dipped bars are available in four flavors:

• Mint Chocolate Crunch
• Peanut Butter Chocolate Crunch
• Sea Salt Caramel Chocolate Crunch
• Vanilla Chocolate Crunch

A box comes with four bars and retails for $5.49.

Use the store locator to find Yasso Chocolate Dipped Bars.

4.5 out of 5 stars.

You know you love me. X0 X0, fro-yo girl.

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Yonola Frozen Greek Yogurt Breakfast Parfait Bars Review

Fro-yo girl here. I came across Yonola frozen Greek yogurt breakfast parfait bars during my last shopping trip to Grocery Outlet in Altadena, CA. I’ve never seen Yonola prior to my trip to Grocery Outlet. The idea is that it’s a frozen version of a yogurt parfait and it’s on a stick for convenience. Yonola is made with Greek yogurt, fruit, and granola. Grocery Outlet only had one flavor left, Vanilla Honey, for 99 cents a box. There were shelf tags for other Yonola flavors.

One box comes with four individually wrapped bars. One bar is 120-130 calories with 5g of protein. A bar is 3 fl oz, probiotic, and kosher. One bar of Vanilla Honey is 120 calories with 3.5g total fat, 17g total carbs, 14g sugars and 6g protein. Available flavors: Peach, Strawbrerry, Triple Berry, and Vanilla Honey

Vanilla Honey bar: The bar was extra firm and hard. The yogurt actually had some tanginess that I appreciated and I could taste the vanilla. I think there were too many oats though. The granola was in tiny pieces throughout the bar. I didn’t appreciate the added sweetness of the granola

Ingredients (Vanilla Honey): Nonfat Greek yogurt (pasteurized nonfat milk, cultures), ultra-filtered nonfat milk, sugar, cream, honey, coconut oil, toasted oats (rolled oats, sugar, soybean oil, honey, brown sugar molasses), quinoa, crisp rice (rice flour, sugar, salt), contains 1% or less of skim milk, milkfat, sunflower lecithin, natural flavors, soy lecithin, carob bean gum.

Trader Joe’s had a similar frozen yogurt parfait bar last summer. The TJ’s bars were better than Yonola’s but Yonola’s are decent. Yonola is a Wells Enterprises product, the largest family-owned and managed ice cream manufacturer in the United States. For some reason, Wells doesn't list Yonola on its website.

3.5 out of 5 stars.

You know you love me. X0 X0, fro-yo girl.

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Alden’s Organic Freckled Strawberry Yogurt Bar Review

Fro-yo girl here. I’ve seen Alden’s Organic ice cream for years, but I never saw any frozen yogurt offering, so I never tried it – until now. Alden’s Organic has a new frozen yogurt product, Freckled Strawberry yogurt bars, introduced at Expo West this year. I spotted the yogurt bars at Sprouts. One box was $4.99 regular price, $4.49 on sale. A box comes with four bars.

Freckled Strawberry: The bar was soft and creamy. It was quite sweet, with no yogurt flavor. It tasted like strawberry ice cream. The strawberries were blended into the bar.

One bar is 90 calories, with 1.5g total fat, 19g total carbohydrate, 13g sugars, and 2g protein. The yogurt bars are organic, non-GMO, and contain live and active cultures.

It looks like Alden’s strawberry yogurt bars are the same as Julie’s Organic strawberry yogurt bars because it says New Look same great taste on the box. On the side of the box, which I didn’t notice till I was at home, it says Julie’s Organic is now Alden’s Organic. I gave the bars 3 stars back in 2011. I hadn’t had the bars since then, because they’re too sweet. Both brands are owned by Oregon Ice Cream.

Ingredients: Cultured nonfat milk, cane sugar, strawberries, tapioca syrup, cream, short chain fructan fiber, natural strawberry flavor with other natural flavors, guar gum, red beet juice concentrate (color), locust bean gum, citric acid, pectin, xanthan gum.

You know you love me. X0 X0, fro-yo girl.

3 out of 5 stars.

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Revele Gelato Whipped Greek Yogurt Bars Review

Fro-yo girl here. I first heard about Revele Gelato’s Whipped Greek Yogurt Bars when they were introduced last July. However, I couldn’t find the bars in my area which was surprising, since Revele Gelato is a local company based in Huntington Beach. While Revele’s website lists Bristol Farms as one of the stores that carries their products, the Bristol Farms in South Pasadena only carries the whipped gelato line and not the frozen yogurt bars. I kept checking and I’ve never seen the froyo bars there.

A few months of checking went by. Then I noticed that more retailers were carrying Revele Gelato, including Super A Foods. However, I went to Super A Foods in Temple City and they only had two flavors that didn’t appeal to me in the least, Birthday Party and Watermelon. Super A Foods in Highland Park had Revele’s gelato, but no frozen yogurt bars. Hmm. Finding the bars was much more difficult than I expected. They do have online ordering on their website but I didn’t want to buy something that’s expensive to ship without knowing if it was any good.

Bristol Farms on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood didn’t have the froyo bars. I finally found one flavor of the froyo bars at Bristol Farms in West Hollywood for $5.99/box. A box usually has 4 bars but this package said there was one bonus bar.

Blood Orange Yogurt bar: The bar is 37g, which is small, even smaller than the bar pictured on the box. But, that’s okay because that’s how they keep each bar so low in calories (60 calories) with 5g total sugar, 5g carbs and 5g protein. It’s gluten-free. The whipped nature of the yogurt helps it achieve an admirable creaminess and lightness that’s rare among frozen yogurt bars. I was surprised by how creamy it was. However, there was very little blood orange flavor and I kept tasting a bitter aftertaste. It was just too bitter. The sweetness level wasn’t too high. There was no tang. It had a mild yet bitter creamsicle flavor. Gums can be bitter and I suspect that’s what I kept tasting.

Available flavors: Unicorn, Tropical Sunset, Raspberry, Birthday Party, Blood Orange, Mint Chip Flipped, Watermelon, Passion Fruit

Ingredients: Greek Yogurt (nonfat milk, yogurt cultures), skim milk, cream, whole milk protein, sugar, color extracts (annatto, turmeric). Contains less than 2% of carob bean gum, distilled mono and diglycerides, natural flavor, lecithin, guar gum.

You know you love me. X0 X0, fro-yo girl.

3 out of 5 stars.

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