Probiotics and Me

(PHOTO: DANONE’S ITALIAN AD CAMPAIGN)...THIS YOGURT WON’T JUST CURE YOUR IRRITABLE BOWEL, IT WILL ALSO GIVE YOU PERFECT, PERT BREASTS!

So you know how like a couple weeks ago I was all ”these probiotics yogurts are such a marketing crock of shit and we should all just buy the normal stuff?” Well. Erm. So the Danone Activia was on sale at my grocery store (still more than the normal price of my regular stuff), so I thought, “what the hey, it’s only 50 cents and you like trying new things.”

So I bought it. A 650 ml container of vanilla for $3.99.

The second ingredient is CREAM, people. Cream.

Let’s just say that I have more than adequately inoculated myself with Bifidobacterium lactis. Maybe I should test its powers by eating a giant bag of Doritos for dinner and seeing if I feel sick?


Posted by Anna Gosline on February 22, 2008 at 4:26 PM in
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You’re my kind of girl, Anna! No, not the breasts. If I could, I would eat a giant bag of Doritos for dinner too. Maybe I’ll dip it in some plain Danone Activia as sour cream. Yum.

Posted on February 23, 2008 at 5:30 AM by Hsien Lei

OMG, the same thought occurred to me in the market yesterday too...but really anything with active cultures should do the trick (read: all yogurt should have active cultures in it!)

see: http://www.aboutyogurt.com/lacYogurt/glossary.asp

Posted on February 24, 2008 at 7:07 PM by michelle etwaroo

These big yoghurt chains doing the probiotic thing seem like a ripoff to me.  Yakult, and its (cheaper) korean knockoff have been selling these bacteria for decades:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakult

Posted on February 25, 2008 at 1:45 PM by

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