Chobani Yogurt Drink Recipe

A Chobani yogurt drink is lowfat Greek yogurt thinned with fruit purée and water until it pours. A 7-ounce bottle of Strawberry Banana has 150 calories and 10 grams of protein. To make it at home, blend a cup of plain Greek yogurt with strawberries, half a banana, a third of a cup of water and a tablespoon of sugar. It makes two bottles.

What a Chobani yogurt drink is

Chobani sells two kinds. The Greek Yogurt Drinks come in 7-ounce bottles in Strawberry Banana, Strawberry, Mixed Berry, Mango and Peach. The Strawberry Banana bottle lists cultured lowfat milk, strawberry purée, water, cane sugar and banana purée, then pectin, natural flavours, chicory root fibre, vegetable juice for colour, lemon juice concentrate and locust bean gum. It has 150 calories, 10 grams of protein and 15 grams of sugars, 7 of them added.

A serving of the copy comes to about 150 calories, 13 grams of protein and 15 grams of sugars, 6 of them added, by USDA figures. It is a reconstruction from the label, and MakeFoodLovely is not connected with Chobani.

Recipe

Strawberry Banana Greek Yogurt Drink

A reconstruction of Chobani's Strawberry Banana Greek Yogurt Drink — lowfat Greek yogurt blended with strawberries, banana, water and a little cane sugar. Two 7-ounce servings.

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Prep

5 min

Total

5 min

Serves

2

Cuisine

American

Ingredients

• 1 cup plain lowfat Greek yogurt
• 2 1/2 ounces strawberries, hulled (about 1/2 cup)
• 1/2 medium banana
• 1/3 cup cold water
• 1 tablespoon cane sugar
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice

Instructions

1. Put the yogurt, the strawberries, the banana, the water, the sugar and the lemon juice in a blender.
2. Blend for 30 to 45 seconds, until completely smooth.
3. For a drink without seeds, pour it through a fine sieve.
4. Pour it into two small bottles or glasses and refrigerate. Shake before drinking.

Nutrition

Calories:

150

Calculated from the ingredient quantities above using the USDA FoodData Central database, then divided by the number of servings. It is an estimate and will vary with the exact products you use.

The high-protein bottle

The second kind is the High Protein Greek Yogurt Drink, with 15 grams of protein in the 7-ounce bottle, 20 in the 10-ounce and 30 in the 14-ounce. The 20-gram Strawberries & Cream lists lowfat Greek yogurt, water and strawberries, is sweetened with stevia and monk fruit and has 170 calories, no added sugar and no lactose.

For a home version of that bottle, blend 200 grams of plain lowfat Greek yogurt, which is a generous 3/4 cup, with 1/3 cup of strawberries and 1/4 cup of water, and leave out the sugar and the banana. By USDA figures that is about 160 calories and 20 grams of protein in a 10-ounce glass. The bottle is lactose-free because lactase is added to it; at home a lactose-free Greek yogurt does the same.

How thin, and with what

Greek yogurt is strained and thick. A third of a cup of water to a cup of yogurt makes it pour; a quarter cup gives a thicker drink.

• Water, as on the label. Milk in its place makes the drink richer and adds calories.
• Frozen strawberries work without thawing and make the drink colder and thicker.
• The sieve takes out the strawberry seeds. It is optional.

A thicker glass, with banana, chia seeds and peanut butter, is the banana smoothie on this site.

Mango, peach and mixed berry

The same base takes other fruit. Replace the strawberries and the banana with 4 ounces of one of these:

• Mango: ripe or thawed frozen mango.
• Peach: a peeled ripe peach, or canned peaches, drained.
• Mixed berry: blueberries, raspberries and strawberries. This one needs the sieve.

Two days in the refrigerator

The drink keeps 2 days in a closed bottle. It separates as it stands, so shake it before drinking.

Other yogurt pages on this site are the drinkable Greek yogurt, which copies a different bottle, and the Chobani Flip, yogurt with a side of mix-ins.