{"id":4896,"date":"2012-11-21T08:03:49","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T14:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4896"},"modified":"2012-11-21T08:04:46","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T14:04:46","slug":"the-trials-of-greek-yogurt-did-a-traditional-yogurt-player-plant-the-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4896","title":{"rendered":"The Trials of Fast Growing Greek Yogurt? Did a Traditional Yogurt Player Plant the Story?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thesalt\/2012\/11\/21\/165478127\/why-greek-yogurt-makers-want-whey-to-go-away\">Dan Charles:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>A few months ago, I let you in on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thesalt\/2012\/07\/19\/156997600\/high-tech-shortcut-to-greek-yogurt-leaves-purists-fuming\">little secret<\/a> about <a href=\"http:\/\/blekko.com\/ws\/+%22Greek+yogurt%22\">Greek yogurt<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greek_yogurt\">Wikipedia<\/a>]. Not all of this extra-thick, protein-rich yogurt is made the old-style way, by straining liquid out of it it. Some companies are creating that rich taste by adding thickeners, such as powdered protein and starch.<\/p>\n<p>Judging by comments that I heard, a lot of people feel rather passionately that the original, strained version is morally superior. But here&#8217;s another little secret: That traditional process for making Greek yogurt is also quite wasteful.<\/p>\n<p>At the Fage factory in Johnstown, N.Y., for instance, it takes 4 pounds of milk to make 1 pound of authentic Greek yogurt. What happens to the other 3 pounds? It&#8217;s strained out of the yogurt as a thin liquid called whey, and getting rid of that whey is actually a headache. Greek yogurt factories have to pay people to take it off their hands.<\/p>\n<p>This may sound confusing if you heard my story about cheese-making the other week. That story described whey as a valuable source of lactose and concentrated protein that ends up in other food products (including the thickened version of Greek yogurt, in fact).<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Disclosure: A former <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stonyfield.com\/products\/stonyfield\/about-our-frozen-yogurt-and-ice-cream\">Stonyfield<\/a> customer, I now enjoy fast growing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chobani.com\/\">Chobani yogurt<\/a>, particularly the <a href=\"http:\/\/chobani.com\/products\/non-fat-pomegranate\/\">pomegranate variety<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Charles: A few months ago, I let you in on a little secret about Greek yogurt [Wikipedia]. Not all of this extra-thick, protein-rich yogurt is made the old-style way, by straining liquid out of it it. Some companies are creating that rich taste by adding thickeners, such as powdered protein and starch. Judging by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4897,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4896\/revisions\/4897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}