You've Been Warned
Looks like the Hollywood sensation Pinkberry frozen yogurt isn't the healthy, nonfat and all-natural treat it claimed to be.
Tears stream down our face.
The stuff that goes into the popular froyo was recently analyzed and the results are a bit scary!
There's 23 ingredients in a Pinkberry. Two of the 'sugars' used, fructose and maltodextrin, another are both laboratory-produced ingredients extracted from corn syrup. Then there's a bunch of stuff that sounds like items you'd find in a scary science lab, including five additives defined by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization as 'emulsifiers' (propylene glycol esters, lactoglycerides, sodium acid pyrophosphate, mono- and diglycerides).
Dr. Gary A. Reineccius, a professor in the department of food science and nutrition at the University of Minnesota said that many of the ingredients Pinkberry uses gives it qualities that nonfat frozen yogurt would not have naturally.
Thanks, Pinkberry for proving that Mom's again always right. If it's too good, it aint true!
Rejected!
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Who cares????????? I only care whether I can date Hollywood stars. Once I found a dating community called M E E T I N G W E A L T H Y dot com. It is said some famous stars is dating freinds there.
Fructose is a naturally occuring sugar that shows up in fruits and veggies. You're still an idiot. Don't you look at anything you post before you put it out there?
Perez I'm a nutrition student and I study all those ingredients. Emulsifiers like the ones above are in all non-fat frozen yogurts or ice cream. If those products did not have those emulsifiers then the ingredients would not stay together and it would taste horrible. Pinkberry didn't do anything wrong its just not natural and organic. Most emulsifiers are actually naturally derived and harmless. Fructose can come from honey and its the sweetest form of sugar so thats maybe why they use it…its better then using high fructose corn syrup. Its still ok to eat.
Why would you eat their overhyped shit in the first place? Gimme some TCBY white chocolate froyo with Peanut Butter Cup topping, please!
Soylent Green is PEOPLE!!!
wait, i eat pinkberry almost everday. haha uh ohh. i am still going to eat it. hahah
If you can't pronounce it, don't eat it.
We've known that Pinkberry isn't real food for AGES, people. Come on! Stop putting that in your body!
Y THE FUCK WOULD U EAT THAT! theres hardly anything on the plate!! lol
ACAI is the way forward!
I don't think that would stop me from eating it, but it would make me feel more guilty while I eat it.
But, I live in a little town in Louisiana so we don't have a Pinkberry.
But we have got a TCBY and a Dairy Queen! But we all know those aren't healthy.. (But TCBY's treats are no sugar added or 98% fat free!)
So? What's wrong with that? There's nothing BAD about that.
yum yum, chemicals and empty calories.
no WONDER everyone who eats this shit gets addicted to it!! look at all the crap put in it! thank God I've been too lazy to get to my local Pinkberry!!!
Hey Perez!!! Try orangecup it IS THE REAL DEAL!!!DELICIOUS TOOO!!!! NEW and only in Dallas Texas Bitches! try some at NORTHPARK MALL!!!!–Peace
I NEVER HAD IT, HOPE THEY OPEN ONE UP IN NEW ENGLAND!
fructose is a really common sugar additive….not really that big of a deal
and "emulsifiers" are pretty much just substances that isolate fat molecules and disperse them throughout a product
for example, emulsifiers ensure that fat products are evenly distributed throughout ice cream so that you dont get globs that taste like water, and other globs that taste like a big load of cream
dont get freaked out by words you dont recognize
if anything, THAT is unhealthy
I was so excited when Pinkberry came to NY, but I think it tastes nasty. Tasti D-Lite is so much better - all natural and comes in a zillion great flavors, like Pistachio and Brownie Batter. Who really wants Green Tea yogurt?? Yuck.
I'm currently obsessed with Pinkberry…and I agree…the fruit is so fresh and it's so, so refreshing…unless it's got tons of fat in it…I don't care
Go University of Minnesota! Thanks for including our faculty Perez!
Time to start going to Red Mango….The owner of Pinkberry stole the ingenious idea from this company which is amazingly popular in Korea! The only one I know of is tucked away in Westwood Village next to the UCLA campus…. Its amazing and its REAL yogurt!
ummm……i thought that was discovered like 2 years ago.
Perez, an emulsifier isn't a bad thing. An egg is an emulsifier. However, this stuff sounds gross. I've never had it and now I guess I never will!
maybe THAT's why it tastes like shit!
wasnt there an episode of seinfeld about this? lol!
OH NO!!!
If it still has the same fat and caloric content this is ridiculous–everything now has additives and you can't seriously expect a mega low calorie ice cream like thing to be able to be created 100% naturally
sounds like some seinfeld shit right there
Pinkberry is still amazing. plus its only like…10 calories per serving for the original. If you put fruit on it it should make up for all the shitty stuff they put in it.
When camping in the South of France (on honeymoon) 11 years ago, my husband did a big stinking pile of s*** that looked just like this. God knows what he ate the night before, vodka probably. Yes we are still married.
Whatever…they just came to New York and this stuff is delicious!!! As long as it remains low calorie, I don't care if it's technically frozen yogurt or not…it is yummy!! However, the best frozen yogurt can be found at the 40 carrots restaurant in the Bloomingdales department store in NYC…now THAT is the best yogurt anywhere!!!
Um, Perez… where were you during high school health? Fructose is a SIMPLE SUGAR… up there with glucose. If you're talking about High Fructose Corn Syrup, on the other hand, then yes, bad bad bad. Fructose itself? Just sugar. You can get it in honey, sweet potatoes, etc. etc. etc.
i still love pinkberry. i dont care.
Re: Kimmy – LOL!!! I was thinking the exact same thing. That was one of my favorite Seinfeld episoeds, btw. Sigh. Nonfat and delicious are just impossible to put in the same sentence, as we learn yet again…
Those emulsifiers you said are "scary sounding" are in A LOT of things you eat. Bread, ice cream.
RED MANGO IS SO MUCH BETTER THAN PINKBERRY!!
Dairy is for fatties anyway, Perez! Why not try some non-dairy "ice cream" like Rice Dream. Much better for you…and good karma since it's animal byproduct free!
If you haven't read Skinny Bitch…go read it NOW!! These bitches make a lot of sense.
GROSS!
Everything is chemically altered. Just use what the good Lord gave ya!
ugggghhh greaaat.
im like addicted to that crap and (i live in miami) theres this place that opened up call blissberry and its basicaly a copy of pinkberry and i iek live there. please dont tel me that their bullshiting me too!
ps perez,
i was at pinkberry in a new york and i saw behind the counter into the kitchen and a worker opened the fridge door and its was STOCKED (and i mean stocked!) with Danon natural yogurt. fucking frauds! fucking fakes! fucking fat-ass yogurt!
Re: steveh –
It does have those properties, but the toxic kind, that is used IN auto antifreeze, is polypropylene glycol.
Emulsifiers are NOT SCARY people! An emulsifier is there to maintain consistency, something difficult in a frozen low fat, or fat free item. They maintain homogenity in the consistency of things such as ice cream and froyo. They are found in nature and extracted from things such as kelp. Shame on you Perez for scaring people unnecessarily.
ps- lab produced flavors, colorings, and extracts are frequently safer and more reliable than naturally-derived ones. For example, would you rather have your pink lemonade colored with the extract of dead fruit fly shells or lab-produced pink dye???????
It's frozen GLUE. What reatards eat this crap? Peace, Love and AIDS to everyone.
This kind of story gets taken out of context so easily if you don't have a basic knowledge of biochemistry… JUST BECAUSE SOMETHING IS MADE IN A LAB OR DOES NOT OCCUR NATURALLY does not mean it's bad or fattening or harmful or toxic or anything like that… it just means that they took an idea for a product.. improved it.. and found an efficient and SUSTAINABLE/REPEATABLE way of producing it in order to achieve maximum benefit with stringent quality control…. Making negative comments about any product of this kind WITHOUT ACTUALLY KNOWING WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT can only serve to hurt that product's bottom line (And a company you claim to love Perez…) Try to get informed before going public with this kind of thing!
Re: fat ass –
dont be mean to perez, he's my + everyones hero !
This site sucks. who gives a shit about celebrities let them live their lives and as far as the frozen yogurt goes..who gives a shit…eat it if it taste good, you only get one life… enjoy it..
QUÉ JODÍO MORÓN! Fructose is not lab-produced, you i-dee-et!
Whatevs. I never liked Pinkberry that much anyway. Its way tooo bitter. It tastes like actual plain white yogurt. I'd rather eat a popsicle that actually tastes like something.
The Weho queens and tweekers line up every day to eat this cr@p thinking they are really cool in paying such high prices for worthless flavored stucco paste. That really makes you cool! Just like all the meth you use.
Oh no! Not emulsifiers!
God forbid anyone use that in their food to make it bind together! (Like cornstarch or flour)
If you don't take the time to learn how cooking works, don't get mad when you find out what you're eating.
Here's a newsflash, Perez: processed food is processed! You're an idiot to think otherwise.
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hi y'all… just wanted to let you know that "Glycol" is also used to de-ice planes during the winter months… yummo………………. keep eating de-icing fluid!!!! lol…
this product is a perfect example of California — all show and no go
how in the world can someone eat pinkberry and enjoy it?
IT TASTES LIKE FUCKING SHIT, DUDE! wake up and admit it
sour milk ice cream = frozen shit
Its a North Korean conspiracy, LMAO…..they've tapped into our inability to resist shit thats bad for us!!! Damn you!!!!!!!! LOL….have you seen the crap they sell in the stores, its absurdly overpriced!
Ah well Imma go there now
its like that seinfeld episode!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Perez, How UNEDUCATED are you? emulsifier just means it blends two or more things together, like eggs emulsify oil and vinegar to make mayo.
Fructose just means fruit sugar. It's found in an apple….
You're so stupid….
Lol. Why are you caring if its healthy or not you fat fuck?
I don't care; it's tasty!
does anyone really go to pinkberry thinking to themself.. i'm going to be eating something healthy today?? cuz i sure as hell don't.. whatever's in it, i likey likey!! so the fuck what if it ain't natural. dare we discuss what goes into a hot dog, and we all know how good they are! i love that perez is exposing the "unnatural" flavors of pinkberry, when clearly the crap he puts in his mouth probably isn't too healthy either. so suck it and leave pinkberry alone!
Reminds me of that Sinfield episode where they all are loving the fat free frozen yogart until they start putting on weight, and they then have it tested and find out its not what they say it is…
Re: FUCK INDIANS –
don't you have better things to do, you harbinger of evil?? Racism is easier to express when you are behind a computer eh, brave one?
Douche
What happened with the court trial about Pinkberry last year? That guy was going to sue them, claiming that the ingredients were NOT made up of milk and was not frozen yoghurt at all, but a powdered mix manufactured in the Far East and mixed with water, then frozen with added ingredients.
Whatever it is made of, I've tried it many times from the Pinkberry on Santa Monica Blvd. in West Hollywood and I like it, so I couldn't care less.
Yogen Fruz tastes better then Pinkberry.
pinkberry tastes like fake shit anyways so it's really no suprise
Omg wackness right there!
I still wanna try it cuz they went there on The Hills! Haha
OMG
Too funny. If you cooked, you'd know that you can emusify, say, an egg white, while making a salad dressing.
Perez, you're great and all, but I've got a newsflash for you. Fructose and malotodextrin ARE sugars!!! And emulsifiers are in nearly everything. In addition, there is no legal definition of "natural" in the food industry. So yeah… if you still eat it, you will be FINE!
IT IS NONFAT!!! Just has extra ingrediants but they are still all FDA improved, NY Times is making a big deal out of nothing. it's still yogurt, it's still low call and it's nonfat theres just other additives, whaever
Holy Seinfeld episode!
obviously you're such a fucking dumbass u duno what an emulsifier is, putting it in "quotation marks" makes it sound all sinister. God you people who know fuck all about anything remotely scientific piss me off.
Seinfeld is totally haunting me right now
it never saidd that it wasnt healthy, just said that it contains srtange ingredients
DUDE THAT WAS NEWS FROM A LONG TIME AGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YOU'RE PRETTY SLOW MARIO!!!!
WHAT THE MAJORITY OF THE PUBLIC FOUND THAT OUT YEARS AGO AND PINKBERRY GOT SUED!!!!!!
GEEZZZZZZZZZ
I HERAT yogen fruz…i dont like pinkberry anymore!
emulsifier is a must in making yogurt or other ice-cream /gelato (because theres milk),sorbet does not have emulsifier in it.
but for the sugar thing, just count, don't eat too much and it wont cause you much harm. of course if they would put in more fresh fruit /nectar (which has natural sugar) in the froyo, they dont have to put so many lab made sugar in.
OMG. i have pinkberry SOO much! i cant believe this!!!
Who here drinks diet coke? A hell of a lot more chemicals are found in these such products and yet, when no fat/no calories are at stake WHY COMPLAIN??? Obviously a fat person would try and convince others that a lower calorie version of an indulgence is somehow worse for you. LET THEM EAT CAKE, says perez.
Perez,
1. Are you a bear? Cub?
2. Who do you want to sleep with?
3. Are you uncircumsized?
Thanks,
I'm bringing Spandex Back.
Re: abc123 –
No dumbass, glycerides are not sugar, they are fat, and esters are acids. Anything that ends in "ose" i.e. sucrose, fructose, dextrose, etc is sugar. Read a damn book before you start spouting off stupid shit. Btw, diet soda may take blood off of "road accidents" but thats the acids from the soda, not the artificial sugar. Get off your yuppy soap box and calm the fuck down…
Pinkberry is nasty all it taste like is powder and sugar … and well what do you know that’s all it is powder and sugar
perez, youre an idiot. first off - fructose is not a laboratory produced ingredient… fructose is sugar derived from fruit.
here is what maltodextrin is: While considered to be a carbohydrate, maltodextrin is understood to be more easily digested than some other forms of carbohydrates, leaving behind less of the potential for health issues. This can be especially important for an individual who is trying to manage their Type 2 diabetes with their diet. Usually made from rice, corn, or potato starch, maltodextrin is produced by cooking down the starch. During the cooking process, which is often referred to as a hydrolysis of starch, natural enzymes and acids help to break down the starch even further. The end result is a simple white powder that contains roughly four calories per gram, and extremely small amounts of fiber, fat, and protein.
look at my next post for the rest
and this is what emulsifiers are: in foods, any of numerous chemical additives that encourage the suspension of one liquid in another, as in the mixture of oil and water in margarine, shortening, ice cream, and salad dressing. Closely related to emulsifiers are stabilizers, substances that maintain the emulsified state. The consistency of food products may also be improved by the addition of thickeners, …
none of the stuff you have said is true … i mean emulsifiers are chemical additives but theyre found in A LOT of the foods we already eat. true, pinkberry isnt THAT good….ive had better here where i go to school (the yogurt tastes like actual yogurt…its amazing) and plus, pinkberry tastes very watered down.
so, not that im a huge fan of pinkberry and want to defend it, but im not a big fan of perez not getting his facts straight, so this is why im posting this. learning is fun, perez - enrich yourself sometime
Didn't we see this on Seinfeld?
This reminds me of that Seinfeld episode. The Non-Fat Yogurt.
Pinkberry may not be natural, but RED MANGO IS!!! Red Mango is the Original!
LA LA LA LA LA i'll pretend i didn't hear any of that…..BESIDES….SWIRLL IS WAYYY BETTER. SWIRLLBERRY.COM
are you an idiot? look up emusify. yeah, it's not natural, but if they're selling it to be, whatever! It's sugarfree, does not have TRIglycerides (you know, the actual stuff that you, perez, obviously love). kook.
I don't care if it taste good i will still eat it.
LOL! it's like that episode of Seinfeld…where the yogurt place claims it's fat free so everyone eats it and they all start gaining weight! Thats all Americans need more of…fatening food….
dont eat pinkberry!! eat red mango or ce fiore. trust me… SOOOO MUCH BETTER. and not fake like this shit
To Perez Hilton,
Our employees read your blog all the time and we thank you for your
interest in Pinkberry. However, we wanted to take a moment and clarify
some of the items in your post on our ingredients:
* Pinkberry products are indeed nonfat frozen yogurt, are a good
source of calcium and meet the FDA's definition of "healthy" although we
do not market ourselves by making health claims. We simply focus on
providing a great customer experience - the best tasting frozen yogurt
in an engaging environment.
* Pinkberry frozen yogurt's main ingredients are skim milk and
nonfat yogurt with live and active cultures. As some of your commenter's
have already mentioned, our nonfat frozen yogurt contains a small amount
of FDA-approved stabilizers and emulsifiers to maintain the creamy
texture. There are no issues with the ingredients.
* Pinkberry nonfat frozen yogurt contains sucrose (table sugar),
fructose (fruit sugar) and dextrose (glucose) as sweeteners. If you do
any comparisons, you will find that Pinkberry has less sugar than most
alternatives.
We hope you and your readers will continue to enjoy our nonfat swirly
goodness.
Cheers,
A Pinkberry representative