Flavors can burnish dairy’s inherent healthy halo. Consider some of the dairy foods on the market: fruit flavors in yogurt, low-fat chocolate milk and cookies-and-cream no-sugar-added ice cream.
You’ve heard it before and maybe you’ve even said it yourself: “If it tastes great, it can’t be good for me.” Look no further than the salted-caramel bacon beignet and you’ve proven your point, right? Perhaps not.
The “tastes great/less nutritious” theory starts breaking down in the dairy aisle, where the products give the lie to the notion that what pleases our palates must put our health at risk. After all, frozen yogurt — even red-velvet cupcake frozen yogurt — is still frozen yogurt, with all the protein, probiotics and low-fat goodness that implies.