Is Pinkberry frozen yogurt natural?

Perhaps I'm a little crazy here, but I always thought it was the amount of intake of food that corresponded to one's weight.

Sorry, but... Having one burger isn't going to have you gain twenty-pounds--or even die right on the spot (I've researched and I've tried.)

As much as this is somewhat misleading from Pinkberry, I would figure it not so much of a big deal unless the ingredients are potentially deadly. And they're not.

People just eat too much. That's not the food's fault.

after reading this, I actually went out to get some of this poison. yummy =]

The rule is as follows...
Everything good is bad for you and everything bad is worse, unless you are in complete denial or follow reverse psychology. Boil everything, including ice cream.
Consult your local chemist/farmer/physician for details.

I agree! All ingredients need to be available for all products. Does the label 'organic' mean okay?

I am going a little off point, but it really takes a lot of education to figure out what our food labels are really telling us. I need to clear up the bad name of fructose. High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFC) and fructose are two different things. HFC is a sweetener derivative from corn but fructose is just a little ol' monosaccharide.

Three important monosaccharides are glucose galactose and fructose. Out of these three galactose is the only one that does not occur in the free form in nature (found in polysaccharide lactose aka. milk)

Fructose is the sweetest monosaccharide so really you need less of it for something to taste sweet (therefore less calories for a pleasant taste). Fructose is found in fruit juices and honey; it is also called levulose and fruit sugar. After fructose enters the blood stream it is converted to glucose (blood sugar)

Examples of where monosaccharides are found:
Honey= glucose + fructose
Sucrose (table sugar)= glucose + fructose
Lactose (milk)= glucose + galactose
Maltose (malt sugar from starch)= glucose + glucose

The real offense in this story is the word "natural" being used to deceive the customer. "for the term natural, there is no specific organization or U.S. department that has any sort of regulation placed on these products. So, therefore a company can produce just about anything and say it is natural".

Lesson learned if you want a product with the highest amount of "natural" ingredients make sure it says "organic" and is stamped with USDA seal of approval or certified. Or eat something that requires no label and is grown in your back yard provided you don't live anywhere on or near an old land fill.

I think it's time to shift this whole "natural" terminology. Sugar in ANY form (yes, turbinado/brown included) is not a substance found in "nature." It must be refined and that refining process requires the use of some nasty compounds (lye/caustic-soda most notably). Corn is a plant; is it "natural"? It has been domesticated/hybridized and irrevocably altered to such a degree that botanists don't even know for sure what the original native species looked like (probably a weed that grows -with one or two tiny kernels-- in the South American Andes). The water you drink is chlorinated/fluoridated, the air you breath is filled with CFO's, car exhaust and industrial particulate! But are we and our products not still natural? Can anything not be natural? I think the emphases (for the OCD and Overly Health Conscious among us) needs to move from degrees of "natural" to degrees of processed. Any nutritionist worth his salt will tell you it's better to eat unprocessed sources of vitamins than to take the overly processed supplements that stores like GNC thrive on.

Good point Kati_kat,

From a personal viewpoint, I think we are already under a terrorist attack, GMO/Monsanto

Pinkberry is nasty...the kiwi and strawberry was the best part of my yogurt..blah

This is what we get for letting our food production be taken away from us by corporations. We eat genetically engineered food everyday without knowing it, and a large portion of food in grocery stores has these types of processed ingredients in them.

Its not even about how healthy is it, its about a lack of control over our food. Our food system is one of the weakest protected things in our nation, and I forget the absolute details, but one of the head guys at the FDA quit and made a statement that if someone wanted to commit a terrorist act, our food supply was the easiest target.

Buy local, grow veggies in your front yard, read labels and take our food back from the corporates!

So this is the "natural" alternative to a Dairy Queen cone? Looks the same to me...especially the large quantities of sugar additives...

i think it is important to know when businesses are lying and tricking consumers into buying their products, good work whoever brought this out

Nice post!

We need full disclosure of ingredients.
I had severe late onset asthma due to a build up of toxic chemicals like Salycilate which is in food preservatives and dyes.
Rid those bad things in my diet and my asthma is fine now.

I so called this! Seinfeld, anyone?

The resemblance to that one episode is uncanny. :]

yep stephenthomson

that would be Cool Whip...

Cool Whip ingredients are chemically produced or are very bad for the human body.

sweet tastes comes in Cool Whip is actually high fructose corn syrup and makes the body “fat”.

The slippery factor in Cool Whip comes from ethylene oxide, which surprisingly makes part of antifreeze. If you polymerize ethylene oxide, or bond monomers to form long chains of polymers, then you get class polysorbate 60. And, class polysorbate 60 is found in certain detergents. Also, one of Cool Whip’s ingredients is protein purified from cow’s milk, known as sodium caseinate. This mixes oil and water “against their will.” And if you want to keep this “hemorrhoid cream” from liquefying then you use basically synthetic wax. All these ingredients make up most of what’s in Cool Whip! yum.....

As long as it tastes good, people won't stop eating it as a 'low-fat, tasty' and trendy alternative to ice cream. It's just like any other food; McDonalds' food is just a heart-attack in burger form, but people still eat it.

Now, does Pinkberry commit these same falsities as Red Mango--because Red Mango is where it's at.

mmmmm..... propylene glycol esters

you know, if they made plastic goop and put some sugar on it, and called it "plastic goop" I bet there'd be some takers.

Good Information, thanks!

Read "Fast Food Nation" by Eric Schlosser for a breakdown of what "natural" really means.

it's still yummy. if pinkberry doesn't kill me, then something else will.

How can you manufacture something natural?

Pinkberry! Why hast thou forsaken me???

I'm sorry I'm a little unclear about whats happing here.

Bad Pinkberry. At least I won't buy overpriced "natural" yogurt, I'm sticking to cheap, super fake, non-fat fro yo around the corner. At least I know that's chalk full of things that are really really bad for me.

yogurt is so 80's , figure people in LA would digg this new found fad.

"Spin", I think.

If it needs to be process to exist, I say do not eat it.

funny enough... Pinkberry just moved their corporate HQ in my building.

Tell me though,

Who's gonna stop eating it?

--Jade

Hmmm.
I didn't know we could manufacture natural stuff in a lab.
Learn something new everyday.

Beware of anything that remotely tastes good.

Very good! Excellent information meligrosa!

Who in the world would vote against a posting about garbage being manufactured to be sold to children?

What's wrong with those people?