Aldi Brooklea Tube It Assorted Yogurt Review

The Aldi Brooklea Tube It Assorted Yogurts cost £1.29 for around 9 tubes of yoghurt. The quality of the yoghurts is generally awful. They have a chalky texture to them; they're not creamy at all and are mostly slightly viscous liquid. The taste isn't like yoghurt and just has an insanely artificial taste to them.

Taste and Texture

Wow, these have a texture that makes it feel like you're just sucking up liquid chalk from the tubes. Not a very nice texture. It's especially apparent in the peach flavour yoghurt tube. It somehow feels slightly hydrophobic in the mouth; I really don't know how they got that texture at all. It feels like the 'Added Calcium' is that they just tossed the calcium powder in without emulsifying it.

Flavour-wise, I found the peach tube yoghurt to have the least flavour out of the batch of the three flavours. It also tastes quite overly sweet too. I found that it just doesn't have that yoghurt tang to it; it just feels like sugar, cream and flavouring. That's it. The red berry flavour has a much stronger flavour but the flavour tastes terribly artificial.

I also found that the strawberry flavour tastes more like the strawberry jelly sweets rather than tasting natural. Nothing in this really tastes natural and it just tastes like a bad attempt at making a product that's not even yoghurt at this point. There's a lack of creaminess too and the aftertaste is just the artificial flavour extended for an uncomfortable amount of time.

Ingredients and Nutritional Information

Ingredients: Yoghurt (Milk) (88%), Sugar, Modified Tapioca Starch, Modified Maize Starch, Calcium Citrates, Flavourings (Contains Milk), Stabiliser: Guar Gum; Acidity Regulator: Citric Acid; Vitamin D.

Nutritional Information 100g: 87 calories, 2.7g fat (1.8g saturates), 11.0g carbohydrates (9.9g sugars), 0g fibre, 3.7g protein, 0.15g salt.

Conclusion

Generally, these are something you should just avoid. They taste absolutely artificial; the texture is just disgusting and it's not even creamy at all. The powdery chalky texture just doesn't make it feel real at all. It's just artificial entirely with the yoghurt being such bad quality that they need to use tapioca and maize starch to thicken it but it really doesn't feel thick at all.