Watch: The Scoop On Frozen Yogurt

This week, a segment on GMA Now in we dish on frozen yogurt: diet-friendly or farce? Find out:

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Comments

[michaelescher]

You should try the "Mayonnaise" flavor at Pinkberry, delicious but super duper fattening due to the "secret" ingredient.

I personally was shocked and had no idea that there was mayonnaise in it until I asked the counter person "does the mayonnaise flavor yogurt have mayonnaise in it?." He said "yes" and it broke my heart.

Damn you mayonnaise, you creamy, delicious caloric condiment from hell!!!

[InformedSources]

You should try the mayo-flavored Tasti D Lite instead. It's got the hidden mayo, too, but very serving contains a healthy dollop of guar gum, which is a bulk forming laxative. That way, all that mayo will be out of your system before you can say "Oh, yummy"! Unless you throw up first....

[Exasperated]

These women are idiots. Pawning off this sugar shit yogurt as healthy is such a joke. And then they say stay away from the carb stuff. They just parrot the CW without insight or knowledge. Just wait about 6 years. It isn't just a "fad." High carbs cause spikes in insulin. Insulin turns 'extra' glucose into fat. This is a fact and has been known to be true for over 100 years.

[Katbird]

Tasti D Lite is NOT and has never been yogurt. It's a "frozen dessert".

[kopssuck]

The Tasti'D'lite on 19th and First Ave. (Sty Town) is now selling a frozen yogurt that is unbelievable !!!!!!!
Try the ginger flavor. Hurry though as I hear the new owners of Tasti D'Lite Corporate may make them remove the product.

Also, who cares about an article from SIX YEARS ago about calorie content. You sound like you have some vendetta against Tasti. Even the clip from Good Morning America said 20 calories per ounce.
Give them a try again.

[InformedSources]

Do you have any reason to believe that the facts reported in the Times article have changed in those intervening six years? The Tasti D Lite company has never acknowledged the issue, nor expressed any intention to do anything about it. So why would anything be different now?

[InformedSources]

Questionable ingredients in Tasti D Lite:

Carrageenan is an ingredient in all flavors of Tasti D Lite. Daily consumption of Tasti D Lite will provide a significant intake of carrageenan. Here's some information on health effects of carrageenan from Wikipedia:

A recent publication indicates that carrageenan induces inflammation in human intestinal epithelial cells....C­arrageenan may be immunogenic [capable of inducing an immune response].­...Consump­tion of carrageenan may have a role in intestinal inflammation and possibly inflammatory bowel disease...­.

False calorie claims by Tasti D Lite:

An article by Marian Burros in the Dining section of The New York Times (2 October 2002) entitled "Fewer Calories Than Ice Cream, But More Than You Think" shows that "the soft-serve dessert has far more calories and often a higher fat content than advertised, according to tests administered for the Dining section."

"The samples, of vanilla and the flavor of the day, provided two to four times more calories per serving than the stores advertise in their signs, ranging from a low of 98 calories for 3.9 ounces of vanilla to a high of 241 for 6.8 ounces of pistachio chocolate. Most samples were in the 130- to 160-calorie range, putting them well over the Food and Drug Administration's definition of low calorie for ice cream, which is 40 calories for four fluid ounces."