LITTLE ROCK — WHAT: Yoplait Delights Parfaits
STATS: Each contains 100 calories and 1.5 fat grams.
THE SKINNY: We've fallen for Yoplait's little word tricks before.
We've tried the Apple Turnover, the Boston Cream Pie and the Pineapple Upside Down Cake. And all of them tasted like yogurt - light and artificially sweetened.
So when we received a shipment of the brand's new 100-calorie layered Delight Parfaits to sample, we snickered at the desserty names: Chocolate Raspberry, Lemon Torte, Creme Caramel, Triple Berry Creme.
But our snickering was quickly replaced by swooning. Especially in the case of the sweet-tart Lemon Torte with creamy citrus- and vanilla-flavored yogurts. If we got creative with crumbled reduced fat vanilla wafers or graham crackers, we might think we were eating pie.
The balanced Triple Berry Creme - a blend of raspberry, blueberry, strawberry and vanilla yogurts - was our second-place finisher. The other flavors, though fair, struck us as more fake and less fulfilling.
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Food, Pages 35 on 08/26/2009