Overview
- Profeco’s January review reports 1,884 laboratory tests on 18 yogurt-labeled products conducted by the National Consumer Protection Laboratory under NOM-181 and related norms.
- Flor de Alfalfa strawberry product was deemed noncompliant for lacking the minimum 10 million live lactic bacteria per gram required to be called yogurt.
- Vaca Blanca strawberry product was found to use vegetable fat instead of butyric milk fat, a violation that Profeco says misleads consumers.
- A Yoplait item labeled “yogur sabor natural” was cited because that denomination is not recognized under the official standard.
- Profeco also cautioned that some products contain non-nutritive sweeteners not recommended for children, naming Alpura (natural with sweeteners, lactose-free) and Yoplait Doble Cero variants, and urged careful label reading; no recalls or penalties were reported.