Yogurt with live cultures brands.
Live culture for yogurt.
Probiotics have a relatively short shelf life so eating yogurt before its best by date increases your odds of getting a healthy dose she adds.
You should look for the seal on the yogurt label that reads live active cultures or similar verbiage to ensure the product contains live cultures.
According to the national yogurt association nya for yogurt to be considered as containing live and active cultures there must be 100 million cultures per gram of yogurt at the time of manufacture.
The nya s live active culture seal is a voluntary identification that manufacturers use to connote refrigerated yogurt products with at least 100 million cultures per gram at the time of manufacture.
See the table below for individual flavor and consistency.
Look for a yogurt that lists the actual amount of live active cultures it contains.
While all yogurt is initially made with live cultures the cultures can be killed off if the manufacturer heat treats the yogurt to prolong shelf life.
Make sure your yogurt provides the good stuff for checking the label for the term live active cultures and particularly a type of probiotic called lactobacillus acidophilus says juliana.
Villi filmjolk matsoni and piima.
The national yogurt association approves participating brands to use its live active culture seal.
Each of these heirloom cultures is re usable mesophilic and contains live active cultures.
Our heirloom yogurt starter culture allows you to try four scandanavian cultures.
The closest gauge we have she says is the live and active cultures seal which certifies that the yogurt had at least 100 million cultures of live bacteria per gram at the time it was manufactured.
Brands of yogurt with the most live culture.
These live active cultures must contain lactobacillus bulgaricus and streptococcus thermophilus.