EasiYo Yogurt Starter Is Melamine Free

Got to have your daily cup of yogurt but worried where the ingredients for the yogurt starter or milk come from?

The terrible news of the melamine contamination of milk powder in China has made a lot of people suddenly ask themselves that question.

Over the coming months people will discover that many processed foods contain milk powder that has been processed in China.

And just because your yogurt or yogurt starter is produced in your own country is no guarantee that it contains only "home-grown" ingredients.

Just this morning, I discovered with horror that my favorite brand of chocolate is made with milk powder from China. Don't ask me why this is so. Here in New Zealand we produce lovely "clean" milk. And we have quality processors to turn it into milk powder. So why is some of it sent to China to be processed into milk powder? Economics, I suppose.

Anyway, the chocolate manufacturer assures us that the Chinese government guarantees that the milk powder they use is not contaminated.

Now call me a skeptic if you want - but I have no wish to take the Chinese government's word on anything until they show a little more accountability. China has an appalling history when it comes to food safety.

I find it astounding that in New Zealand we use milk powder that has been made anywhere else.

I won't be buying any more of my favorite chocolate.

The result of discovering all of this while I was still eating my breakfast (and regular readers know I am a big fan of EasiYo yogurt which I have with my breakfast most mornings) meant that I was immediately on the track to discover just where the products in EasiYo yogurt starter come from.

I already knew that the milk comes from New Zealand cows - what I wanted to know was what happens to the milk (and more importantly where does it go) before it is made into the starter. (Easiyo starter is a blend of milk powder and yogurt making bacteria.)

Image courtesy of Ingolfson and used under Public Domain License

No cows in the photo I'm afraid, but this is the wonderful West Coast of the South Island. The road travels round those rugged cliffs and every now and then meanders down into a grassy plateau where the intrepid West coast dairy farmers run their herds. Several years ago I spent a most enjoyable week travelling up the West coast.

And the reassuring answer is that all the milk that goes into an EasiYo yogurt starter packet comes from the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand. Westland Milk Products, which is also situated on the West Coast, dries it to become the milk powder that EasiYo use. It never leaves New Zealand.

Not only that, neither EasiYo nor Westland Milk Products allow melamine within their manufacturing sites.

It does not matter whether you buy your EasiYo yogurt starter here in New Zealand or in the United States - or anywhere in the world - you are buying a product that began life on the grassy paddocks of the West Coast, was delivered as milk to a milk company that has won awards for the quality of their product, and was then delivered to the EasiYo plant where it becomes a probiotic yogurt starter. That is the history of the EasiYo starter.

Visit my Everything EasiYo Store if you wish to buy EasiYo yogurt making supplies.

So I may not be eating my favorite brand of chocolate for a while but I can still eat my favorite brand of yogurt - EasiYo!

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