Light & Free by Danone have a great range of lower calorie flavoured yogurts. Now they’ve brought out their own range of kefir.Like their yogurts, Light & Free is promoting their kefir on the fact that it has 0% fat and no added sugar. This brings the calories right down.
At the time of writing there are three varieties: Plain, Pomegranate & Blueberry and Cucumber & Lime. I didn’t fancy the idea of the cucumber & lime so I purchased a bottle of Plain and Pomegrante & Blueberry. These have just 93 calories for the whole 265ml bottle.
Kefir is so popular right now. This fermented, mostly milk based liquid has a consistency of pouring cream. It’s becoming widely known for its health benefits, such as improving gut health due to the large amounts of probiotic bacteria it contains.
I’m a big fan of kefir and drink it every day.
What they say on the bottle:
'Good vibes come in special packages.
Enjoy our deliciously tangy Kefir with a punch of pomegranate and bursts of blueberry goodness blended with fermented milk full of live cultures from more than 15 different strains.
Treat your taste buds to Light & Free, the uplifting taste experience with 0% fat and 0% added sugar**
**Contains naturally occurring sugars
0% fat, High in protein and calcium'
Most kefir isn’t particularly high in calories anyway, with an average of around 60 calories per 100ml. But the Light & Free Kefir virtually halves this to just 35 calories per 100ml.
The first one I tasted was the plain. It’s much thinner than the other kefir brands I’ve tried, only slightly thicker than milk. It has a very mild taste with not much sweetness. It’s really too thin to pour over fruit and is better as a drink on its own, or to use in a smoothies.
The Pomegranate had the same very thin consistency. It was an interesting flavour, one which unfortunately I didn’t much like. I couldn’t taste the blueberry and the pomegranate didn't remind me of the fruit at all!
Although I love that these are so low in calories, this is one case where I would rather not compromise and instead choose the variety I prefer. At the moment my favourites are Bioutiful and The Collective Dairy
You can find Light & Free Kefir in branches of Sainsbury’s and Ocado online.
Ingredients: Pomegranate & Blueberry
Pasteurised Skimmed Milk, Pasteurised Whole Milk, Blueberry Puree from Concentrate (1.3%), Pomegranate Juice from Concentrate (0.7%), Modified Maize Starch, Flavourings, Fruit and Vegetable Concentrates (Black Carrot, Grape), Acidity Regulators (Sodium Citrate, Citric Acid), Thickener (Pectin), Kefir Cultures and other Lactic Cultures
Nutrition per 100ml: Pomegrante
35 Calories, less than 0.5g fat, 0.2g saturated fat, 4.1g carbs, 3.9g sugars, 3.0g protein, 0.12g salt. 119mg calcium. Suitable for vegetarians.
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