Frozen yogurt has grown in popularity in recent years, driven by the dairy industry’s development of innovative and fun flavourings and consumer demands for healthier food.
Trendy yogurt bars have energed and fashionable restaurant chains such as Nandos include frozen yogurt on their menu. Consumers have also taken note of frozen yogurt’s claims to have health benefits over ice-cream, in particular suggestions yogurt can improve the digestive and immune systems and are a good source of calcium.
Frozen yogurt products mainly use low fat, probiotic yogurt, so ‘low fat’ or even ‘fat-free’ declarations can be made – and also because of the associated health benefits of using probiotic cultures.