Yogurt

[cjsmith]

What's your favorite no-sugar-added active culture yogurt?

Dannon Light & Fit has a bitter taste to it, although that might be just the one flavor I've tried so far. (I also seem to taste bitterness unusually strongly. I can't put broccoli stems in my mouth, and there's no way I'll ever like coffee.) But just about everything else in my local supermarket has so much sugar in it that I might as well eat a candy bar.

Recommendations?

[edit: Wow, you guys are great! I've got a big pile of good ideas already!]

Comments

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yes, I definitely fit the supertaster pattern. I didn't know artificial sweeteners would do it! No wonder I keep detecting bitterness where it shouldn't be! (I admit I never understood how people could get used to Diet Coke. It didn't occur to me until right this moment that to other people, maybe it's not bitter.)

[mithriltabby]

The variations in human smell and taste are a lot higher than those in, say, vision; there are plenty of resources for design to deal with colorblindness, but very few cookbooks that acknowledge that some people have a radically different experience of some flavors. Grapefruit is very bitter to me, cantaloupe a mix of sour and bitter, and I can’t even be in the room with cooking broccoli or cauliflower. I keep an eye on molecular gastronomy blogs, but none of them have done serious research into this area.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I've never been able to bring myself to eat grapefruit. (Lemon, on the other hand, is fine; I adore sour.) And like you, I don't like cantaloupe (though I can eat it) or cauliflower, either.

I'm doomed to eat unhealthy junk food ;-)

[just-cyd.livejournal.com]

too much artificial sweetener, and i'll get the bitter aftertaste, but it's a bit later. diet coke tastes "really sweet w/o the syrup-y-ness of sugar". (this from the girl that has a poor sense of taste and almost no sense of smell)