low fat frozen yoghurt for making smoothies

siochain

Hi Folks,

Any one know where you can get low fat frozen yoghurt for making smoothies?

Due to the fruit sugars in smoothies I’m assuming they would be high enough on the glycemic index. Would adding a tablespoon of ground flax seed be enough to reduce the high glycemic effect?

Cheers

g'em

siochain wrote:

Due to the fruit sugars in smoothies I’m assuming they would be high enough on the glycemic index. Would adding a tablespoon of ground flax seed be enough to reduce the high glycemic effect?

A tablespoon of milled flax would be ideal, or even a handful of oats.

rubadub

I havent seen frozen yogurt much- as the texture doesnt matter you could just freeze normal low fat yogurt. I used to fill those ice-cube bags with yogurt- for making tandoori chicken. The yogurt ice cubes are a good size and will get cut up well in a blender- cooling the drink.

For a low fat desert type food I make mousse with whey powder. Mix skim milk, whey and low sugar strawberry jelly. If the protein shake is mixed up well it gets nice & fluffy with a proper mousse texture when set.

g'em- does mixing different foods "create" a new GI, e.g. say I had 100g of glucose GI 100, and mixed it with 100g of bread say GI 50, is this equivalent to having 200g of GI 75 food? or is it altered non-linearly.

How Strange

I saw it in the icecream section of superquinn yesterday. I think it was Corrin Hill.

g'em

rubadub wrote:

g'em- does mixing different foods "create" a new GI, e.g. say I had 100g of glucose GI 100, and mixed it with 100g of bread say GI 50, is this equivalent to having 200g of GI 75 food? or is it altered non-linearly.

Combining a low-GI food with a high-GI food will lower the overall GI of the meal, but it's a non-linear relationship and there's lots of factors involved: is it fat/ protein in nature? The individual's specific GI response? Previous blood-sugar level before meal etc etc.

But as a very generalised issue, that's how some cultures can regularly eat very high GI foods like white rice and lots of potatoes without worry, because they're normally combined with lower GI foods like meats and fibrous vegetables.

Think back to the 'traditional' Irish meal - meat, spuds and veg; it's actually an extremely healthy, balanced, moderate GI meal. Now though more of the produce is processed so it has a higher GI but less vits and minerals, the vegetables are less nutritious from intensive growth and the meat is loaded with hormones and growth factors. Yum :rolleyes:

rubadub

g'em wrote:

that's how some cultures can regularly eat very high GI foods like white rice and lots of potatoes without worry, because they're normally combined with lower GI foods like meats and fibrous vegetables.

Yes I was reading somewhere about the chinese having a higher average calorie intake than the US yet having a lower BMI. I was in China and couldnt believe what some were eating, huge hunks of fat- and they were whippets, and I never saw brown rice once.

I thought the GI thing would be complex, thought you might get away with mixing a small amount of low GI with some high GI- sort of like mixing whey protein with milk to delay its uptake, as thought it was casein

pwd

How Strange wrote: »

I saw it in the icecream section of superquinn yesterday. I think it was Corrin Hill.

I got some from a superquinn too. The one I got was quite nice, but it has a lot of sugar in it, so you need to add fairly tart fruit like raspberries or lime to stop it tasting sickly - you might want to avoid it altogether if you are concerned about the GI of your smoothie.

Nevyn

Anyone seen the probiotic fat free frozen yougarts for smoothies ?

g'em

The problem with "fat-free" anything is that they tend to be very sugar heavy - look for fructose, dextrose, glucose etc on the labels. Sugar is, by nature, fat-free but is high GI. Yoghurts are a major culprit.

For smoothies the *best* option is plain live yoghurt and sweeten it up with fruit.