
Dr Kyla Smith, Paediatric Dietitian, Perth WA
Chewsday Review- Coyo Vanilla Coconut Yoghurt
Another week another coconut yoghurt. Today’s Chewsday Review features Coyo yoghurt pouches in a vanilla flavour. 🔶Ingredients: 🔹Organic Coconut Milk (88%), Organic Rice Syrup, Organic Tapioca Starch, Organic Vanilla Bean Paste, Live Vegan Cultures 🔹Organic rice syrup is a sweetener, just like sugar. 🔹All the ingredients are certified organic (but remember this tells us about how the ingredients are grown, not the nutrient content) 🔹Common allergens include: nil 🔶The po

Dr Kyla Smith, Paediatric Dietitian, Perth WA
Chewsday Review- Cocobella Coconut Yoghurt
Lots of interest in coconut yoghurts- so here goes. Today’s Chewsday Review features Cocobella Coconut Yoghurt. 🔶Ingredients: 🔹Water, coconut milk, native starch, tapioca syrup, yoghurt cultures and probiotics 🔹Native starch is a bit vague- there’s no definition provided of this and it’s not clear what the starch is derived from (corn, wheat, rice etc). The product does state it’s gluten free so it won’t be from wheat. 🔹Tapioca syrup is a sweetener, just like sugar. 🔹Com

Dr Kyla Smith, Paediatric Dietitian, Perth WA
Chewsday Review- Infuzions Veggie Straws
Why does every snack food claim to be a vegetable? It’s getting outrageous. Anyway, lots of requests for these Infuzions veggie straws. Here’s my thoughts on the Veggie Straws in a sour cream and herb flavour. 🔶Ingredients: 🔹Vegetable (71%) (including potato, spinach powder, tomato powder, beetroot powder, salt, beta carotene), sunflower and/or canola oil, seasoning (milk solids, sugar, maltodextrin, vegetable powder, salt, yeast extract, cheese powder, flavour, sour cream