Since I covered Flurt and Yolato, I felt like I had to try Pinkberry today to feel complete. Pinkberry has three flavors and I sampled each. The coffee was vile, sour coffee is not a good thing, the green tea didn’t taste enough like green tea, but the plain was good if you think of it as a yogurt flavored sorbet. It’s not creamy enough to call it frozen yogurt for me, so in that arena, only Flurt makes the mark so far. As I ate the second half, thinking of it as sorbet, I did enjoy it, but a minute after I was done, my mouth felt very dry and then the sour aftertaste lingered for a while. It wasn’t terrible but I did need water.
Pinkberry does gets points for extremely good blueberries but overall, this small cup with blueberries is expensive for $4.23. If the idea is to make these frozen yogurts healthy so that you can have them often, then they need to be priced so you can have them often. For me, no thanks, I prefer having ice cream and/or gelato in moderation.
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I concur the coffee was vile, but with a good assortment of fruits (non-sour), the plain yogurt can be a good complement. Red Mango was slightly better, but I will try Flurt and Yolato as recommended.
Da Schmuzer, just to be clear, I do not recommend Yolato! It sucked.
I personally like yolato. Just make sure you get the gelto stuff there and not the soft serve stuff from the machines.
The gelato doesn’t count, I’m comparing the frozen yogurts (which is that soft-serve stuff from the machines) and it sucks!
Also, it is very deceiving which I don’t like, it’s vague on the website, but when I went to the store and asked to clarify, they told me the gelato in the cooler case is just regular gelato, only the machine one is the one that is supposedly healthier.
That’s too bad about Pinkberry. I was planning on trying it after I saw some kid at a basketball game slobber it down. There’s always LaSalle!
Three Cheers for LaSalle!
I also thought Pinkberry was not worth the price for the taste.
Pinkberry has less calories tho
Have you tried Forty Carrots inside bloomingdales (7th floor)? The original is very creamy and tart, the other flavors tend to taste like the flavors without the yogurty tartness. The small is a little under 5 dollars but, they give you well worth your moneys worth. It’s enough for two people to share. I usually tell them not to fill it all the way. Try it out if you’re in midtown!
I recently tried their mixed berry smoothie, which was very disappointing.
Anonymous, less calories is only better if all else is equal.
Wonders, Angie posted a favorable comment about Forty Carrots on the Flurt post so I guess I have to go try it!
Ellen, thanks, good to know.