At some point in this blog I apparently made a reference to, at breakfast, enjoying an Acti mel chaser. Someone asked me what Actimel was. Well.... The short answer is it is the nectar of the gods. The longer answer is that it is the nectar of the digestion gods which comes in a 100g servings (about three gulps -- which I suppose is the same in metric or standard measurements) and a variety of flavors (my current favorite is cherry). Of course, the truth may be something else entirely because I'm not sure exactly what it is because I got hooked on it in Poland where the labelling was in Polish and looking at my little stash here with German labelling isn't particularly helpful either. Nutshell, though, I believe that it has active cultures that assist in digestion and somehow in improving the immune system. I base this on my ability to look at pictures on the packaging with an outline of a human form with stars going from gullet to belly, which I assume means healing magic spreads from the moment Actimel is consumed. I also base this on the similarity it has to some of the stuff I had to eat in El Salvador when I was in the hospital and they needed to jumpstart my digestive processes. It's now available in the US and I suspect was the precursor to the Activia stuff you now see marketed.
Actimel is like a really thin/watery version of liquid yogurt. (Yeah, NOW you totally want to run out and buy some!) Which brings me to today's topic -- yogurt. I ate yogurt in the US on occasion -- you know, a decent source of calcium with some protein as well. The yogurt here is sooooo much better. Someone said that it has something to do with lack of pasteurization or a different method of some sort. Good stuff, though. The thing is, yogurt isn't just the Yoplait variety over here; it seems to be in nearly everything. I'm starting to wonder if it's like how the orange juice and breakfast cereal companies started adding calcium to their products.
Case in point, early on here I was in the refrigerated aisle at the grocery store looking for butter or a buttery spread (because, let's be honest, I couldn't tell what was what). I ended up getting a container of Du darfst Die Leichte mit Jogurt. "Oh! With Joghurt! It MUST be good. And good FOR me." Turns out it is the most creamy, easy-to-spread buttery substance I've encountered. So a few days later when I was in the market for a salad dressing, you can imagine how the Garten-Kräuter salad dressing "mit Joghurt" caught my eye. Coincidence that it is delightful? Probably not. And this week I had to replace my vat o' buttery goodness and noticed that the foil top of the tub is advertising "Eine neue Idee von Du darfst! Die neue Joghurtsaucen Idee als Basis für Ihre Saucenkreationen in der warmen und kalten Küche." Oh, Du darst, you had me at "mit Joghurt....."
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