Pinkberry: What’s In The Powder?
By La Verne Casagrande - Thursday May 10th 2007 |
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Concerned citizens are up in arms about superstar yogurt stand Pinkberry. Led by local resident Bryan Williams, they’ve filed a lawsuit demanding the chain disclose its ingredients and/or stop calling itself frozen yogurt.
What’s actually in the powder? Citizens postulate! Submit your own guesses below.
- Chalk
- Chalk-like substance
- Some sort of Chalky something-or-other
- A Chalky countenance
- Nicotine
- Asteroid particles
- Bisquick
- Salt
- Some kind of healthy shit
- Cocaine
- Fred Ward’s Doormat Detritus
- Pet Dander
- Blogger Dander
- Failed Gary Coleman Get Cash Now! scripts
- Ground-up 14th Annual Daytime Emmy Statues (1987)
- The Remains Of The Day
um, pink berries?
fresh dingleberries.
The damaged portions of the original San Vicente/La Brea statue shack’s inventory.
Pink baby nuts. 2 per gallon.
day old taco shell shavings (got to use the fresh stuff!)
my dignity
Hoffa and MANY more we can’t discuss
Solvent green, no wait that’s classified
Haliburton left overs
Dick Chenny’s missing friends (not Hoffa)
King TACO!
a packet of sea monkeys
Steve Howe’s pick shavings from the Tales from Topographic Oceans tour, 1974-75
2004 Lakers NBA Champions apparel
love
urchin spines
plaque
bald eagle
evaporated teardrops
unflavoured pop-rocks
A hallucinogenic compound that alters consumers’ consciousnesses to make them think what they’re eating actually tastes good.
buttermilk powder, milk retentate, caseinate, and whey protein concentrate. mmm. tasty.
It’s THE STUFF! As seen in the popular 1985 movie, “The Stuff!”
MSG + sawdust
gay people
Soylent Pink
Soylent green (for the green tea version)
Hello people, clearly it’s eczema.
Blow.
Dried, pulverized racehorse semen.
The residue from the floor of the bathroom at the house of blues in anaheim
Our collective dreams
vinegar
laverne, you spelt nicotine wrong. but given the fact that you’re still smarter than me, i’ll let it slide.
Spelt
Spelt (Triticum aestivum var. spelta) is a sub-species of common wheat. It has been grown in Europe for about 300 years.
seriously people i thought it was illegal to not list ingredients on items that are eaten…
someone tell us what is in that stupid shit and if it comes from china or asia i really dont’ trust it… consideriing the scare with pet food and pig feed…
[...] Eater Los Anjealous [...]
Human Breast milk via the pinkberry pumpers
IT’S PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!
Melamine? Hey, if it’s good enough for Fido…
What’s all the fuss? It just tastes like organic yogurt to me. To make yogurt you need a yogurt starter which is usually yogurt (just like you need a yeast starter from bread dough with yeast that’s already been activated) also a lot of yogurt recipes require powdered milk.
People don’t know what half the crap is in the boxes of cookies and dinners they buy from the grocery store. Half of them aren’t even honest. Sure MSG has been banned but you’d be surprised to know that it’s still in the food it just goes by another name because consumers don’t know that. And everyone is up in arms about a yogurt place? Puh-leeez…our society is pathetic.
Hmm…good point.
Homemade Basic Yogurt (Yoghurt)
Ingredients
1 quart whole milk
1/3 cup instant nonfat dry mlk (optional. It produces a thicker texure and increases the protein content by 2 grams per cup.)
1 rounded tablespoon plain yogurt or recommended quantity of powdered culture
Instructions
Combine and incubate per machine instructions.
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Pinkberry or PinkScary
It’s Candy in a cup…
One 13-ounce large size has 65 grams of sugar. That’s 16 teaspoons of sugar and 300 calories in just the yogurt.
One 8-ounce medium size has 40 grams of sugar, which equals 10 teaspoons of sugar for 200 calories.
The sugary toppings like white chocolate add even more sugar and fat.
Pinkberry has refused to release the ingredients in their yogurt. Why, if it’s just yogurt?
I’d rather have a Ben and Jerrys for all sugar.
Just the Facts
Pinkberry or PinkScary
It’s Candy in a cup…
According to the nutritional information on the Pinkberry website.
One 13-ounce large size has 65 grams of sugar. That’s 16 teaspoons of sugar and 300 calories in just the yogurt.
One 8-ounce medium size has 40 grams of sugar, which equals 10 teaspoons of sugar for 200 calories.
The sugary toppings like white chocolate add even more sugar and fat.
Pinkberry has refused to release the ingredients in their yogurt. Why, if it’s just yogurt?
They advertise their desert as a healthy snack but hide the truth. It’s loaded with sugar and hidden ingredients.
[...] for Pinkberry, I won’t deny the stuff is good, but as Losanjealous noted some time ago, it’s not real right? I heard it doesn’t even have any yogurt culture right? Although [...]
It’s ridiculous how ppl are begrudging Pinkberry’s success and try to force it to reveal its ingredients.
You can stop PB from calling its products healthy frozen yoghurt if the bacteria count is too low. But how can you force the business to teach you how to reproduce their yogurt?
I don’t think ppl will care whether they’re eating frozen yogurt or fat free ice-cream as long as it tastes good and the calorie count is low. Unless you can prove that the nutritional information is fake, PB won’t loose customers.
Pinky Berry is REALLY Good. First it’s Yogurt and then they put FRESH berries on it. You pick them. But it’s just people that want to start their own store and don’t know how to do it. Why the fuck should he give you the information on his ingredients. They just don’t want to do the work and try to make there own or try to make yogurt and don’t add alot of sugar or use other stuff to change the taste for the better.
Stupid People.
Forget the ingredients. Anyone else but me getting tired of the font similarities? You know, rounded serif with a swirl of a fruit or plant next to or within the logo? I have yet to see a frozen yogurt biz use serif. It’s a bit disappointing. :(
rounded “sans serif” i mean. :P
Revealing the ingredients is not revealing the recipe. It’s done all the time. Pinkberry is hiding something. They promoted it as healthy when in fact it has 1/3 more sugar then Coke. Fool me once but never twice!
Considering all the other fake things that come out of LA, I’m gonna go ahead and guess that the secret ingredient is milk from fake tits (if that’s even possible).
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Is it true that Pinkberry yogurt will bleach carpet? I heard that recently.
I WORK AT PINKBERRY.
Stop bashing us.
FIRST:
there is NO powder. none. it’s liquid. it’s LITERALLY liquid yoghurt. REAL yoghurt with REAL, live yoghurt cultures. Same goes for the green tea except that the green tea extract is added.
All of the ingredients are posted for the public to see inside each and every pinkberry location. so why are you all trying to guess what kinds of ridiculous things are in there when you can go see for yourself!? jeeze.
the only thing that is artificial in the yoghurt is a touch of green food color for the green tea yoghurt so you can see the visual difference. ANY MORE QUESTIONS….? JUST ASK. DONT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS.
wait, if there’s no powder then how do they get the unicorn horns in there?
oh-so-funny you are
you stupid ignorant people worst things you guys eat out their hating your self for not coming up with the idea
Listen up, y’all! Pinkberry is good with no more rat droppings than are legally allow BY THE GOVERNMENT! You’re just jealous your restaurant doesn’t have rat droppings! So what if they don’t even know what’s in it. It’s a mysterious secret from Korea, yo! And my carpet only got a little bleached out by the yogurt, I’m sure it doesn’t cause cancer.
Hi Rita, I have some question:
Is it true that (according to CA state law) a product must contain a certain amount of active yogurt cultures to be labeled and advertised as yogurt? And is it true that Pinkberry falls exceedingly short of containing the minimum amount necessary? And is that why all references of “yogurt” have been removed from Pinkberry advertising, signage, and promotional literature? And, out of curiousity, is that why you’ve elected to spell yogurt as “yogHurt”, which comes across as a little evasive, deceptive, and — dare I say — sinister?
Contrary to suggestions above, the low esteem reserved for Pinkberry isn’t based upon any jealousy of a economically successful (albeit morally deceptive) business model, but rather upon the notion that a less-than-healthy product has been advertised as a healthy snack. Such practice preys upon people who desire to live better, healthier lives, while glossing over the fact their return business is rooted in the copious amounts of sugar in their product and the glycemic cravings it induces.
We don’t have to hate, but let’s call a spade a spade. ‘k?
On the spelling of yoghurt:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogurt#Etymology_and_spelling
babies
Do you have a list of the calorie amounts per servong?
I use to work at Pinkberry and I can tell you the secret ingredient in fact IS a powder and is shipped from korea. It comes in unmarked boxes and from someone I’ve spoken with, he believes it is melamine