Has anyone tried the Activia yogurt? I was thinking of trying it. Good or bad?

It is really good I tried it the other day and it was tasty, no bad after taste like other yogurts.

All yoghurt should have active cultures; Activia (made by the Dannon people) sounds like a way to have you pay a premium for them...they claim having an extra bacteria that survives into the intestines.
I haven't seen it on the shelves yet.

For intestinal surviavability, a FAR better choice is kefir which has ten times as many different flora compared to yoghurt.

I have tried this yogurt and it tasted good.No different from most yogurt though.I actually bought it because it was lower in price compared to other yogurt at the time I bought it.

Does eatting live cultured yogurt and kefir help you lose weight at all? Also,where can I find kefir at in my grocery store?

It tastes great. Very smooth and creamy. A little high on the sugar though, with 17gm

I tried Activa but as a Diabetic it shot my sugar glucose through the roof.

It contains plenty of good ingredients but also too much added sugar. That much sugar is not worth it even for NON-Diabetic's. :nono:

The live cultures in these yoghurts are to line your intestines and bowel (otherwise known I believe as bowel flora). They are also the kind of things that are depleted when you get thrush and stuff like that which is why live yoghurt is a good treatment for thrush. Having good flora helps your food travel through your gut and out the other end!
For info, a nutritional therapist tells me that "bifidus digestivum" isn't even a real thing - it'a a made up phrase to sound impressive on the TV ads. Taking a daily acidophillus/lactobabcillus supplement or similar could get you the same effect, without taking in any of the nastiness in dairy products.

I love them, i eat one everyday, at first they can upset your tummy, but after a couple of weeks it settles down and your tummy feels pretty good. They taste so much nicer than normal yoghurts and are really creamy.

Eve,

Here is scientific info on Dannon's marketed name for their blend "bifidus regularis". Bifidus regularis isn't a strain of good bacteria, it is the blend of these three importants strains of good bacteria which was given a name for marketing purposes.

It seems they fooled even Consumer's Union (August Issue of CR)...are you SURE that B.regularis doesn't exist as a separate entity? CU tested for it in a stomach acid simulation and found that 1/1000 of the Bifidus regualris would make it into the intestines. This is not to say that I haven't caught CU with their pants down more than once.

(They mention a study in a journal called "GUT," can you believe...I guess there's a journal for EVERYTHING these days...has anyone read "ARMPIT":D:D)

Personally, I think that yoghurts are a probiotic wasteland compared to the probiotic advantages of kefir which has dozens of active strains that DO survive to colonize the colon.