Creamy, Thick, Icelandic Yogurt

Published on Tuesday, January 19, 2010, by Roxanne Webber / Edit Post

Siggi's, which has been making an Icelandic-style yogurt called skyr for a few years, is starting to appear at more markets thanks to an increase in distribution. The yogurt is similar to a Greek style like Fage: thick, strained, very creamy, and mildly tangy, despite being nonfat.

Siggi's makes its yogurt with hormone-free milk from grass-fed cows and barely sweetens it using agave nectar. It packs 16 grams of protein into each 6-ounce container. It's available in plain, pomegranate–passion fruit, blueberry, orange and ginger, grapefruit, açaí, and vanilla.

Siggi's skyr, about $3, check website for stores where it's available

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  • I love this stuff. It has the consistency and tartness/lack of artificial sweetness that the good greek yogurts have, but with the option of the blended fruit rather than the goopy syrupy fruit on the bottom or fruit on the side that you get with greek yogurt--it's often easy to forget, when used to mass market yogurts, that blueberries and pomegranates aren't really all that sweet. Haven't tried...+READ

    I love this stuff. It has the consistency and tartness/lack of artificial sweetness that the good greek yogurts have, but with the option of the blended fruit rather than the goopy syrupy fruit on the bottom or fruit on the side that you get with greek yogurt--it's often easy to forget, when used to mass market yogurts, that blueberries and pomegranates aren't really all that sweet. Haven't tried the grapefruit (doesn't sound good to me anyway), but the blueberry, pomegranate/acai and orange/ginger flavors are terrific for me.-COLLAPSE

  • Tried them all. But it's NOT the real skyr - which I've only ever found in the Eastern Region of Whole Foods. Push your local Whole Foods to get distribution further west. The Siggi's started in that region too and has spread westwards. Maybe we can pull the real thing across the US (incidentally couldn't find the real skyr on the whole foods website).

  • I was really excited when I saw this at my local Whole Foods (Los Angeles) so I bought three right away, plain, blueberry, and I forget the third flavor. I really wanted to love it, and indeed, I did love the thick & rich texture, but the taste was an extreme disappointment. It tasted like milky vomit (and I'm not exaggerating). Just left a very displeasing aftertaste...

  • Bleah. I tried the grapefruit flavor and, should have guessed, grapefruit? and yoghurt? Save your $$$ PS It doesn't come from Iceland.

  • so exciting!! Please, do come to Canada.