Get a Coupon for Free Yogurt

Giveaway Ended 11-14-2016

 White Mountain Foods is Giving Away 50 Free Jars of Bulgarian Yogurt!

Help us spread the word about our 2-ingredient, high-probiotic, authentic Bulgarian yogurt with the smart tart taste! 

Be one of the first 50 people to write positive reviews of our product and/or company at two different review sites and get a coupon for a free quart of our Bulgarian yogurt!  You can write reviews at Google, Yelp or Yellow Pages. That's 2 reviews for 1 free jar of authentic Bulgarian yogurt! 

Include your name and city when you write the review. After you are done, fill out our contact form and copy and paste your reviews (and on which site you wrote each review) in the contact form comment box.  We will then match your name and location to the name and location on the review site and send you a coupon for free yogurt!  

Only one coupon per mailing address, please.  We will close this event when we have 50 winners.

White Mountain Food in Dallas/Ft. Worth Area

Dallas/Ft. Worth

White Mountain Bulgarian yogurt is sold throughout the Dallas/Ft.Worth area, at grocery stores like Whole Foods Market, Tom Thumb, Natural Grocers and Fiesta Mart.  Use our store locator in the right column of this blog to find stores near you that carry our products!

Be sure and call first to make sure that our products are in stock.

Establishing a Good, Healthy Diet

While eating real yogurt occasionally is good for overall health and provides many nutritional and probiotic benefits even in small and occasional amounts, to maximize the digestive and probiotic value of White Mountain yogurt one should incorporate it into their daily diet as a staple food.

What one eats during the course of their daily lives has a great impact on our health, mood, and sense of well-being.  Diet should be a carefully considered aspect of our lives, not something we barely give any thought about.  As a rule of thumb, one of the best ways to establish a good diet is to have quality healthy, natural, staple foods one eats regularly.

This can be quite a challenge in modern times, but keeping White Mountain Bulgarian Yogurt on hand, along with some natural granola, fresh fruit, salad greens and vegetables can provide easy, high-quality snacks and meals for any time of day.  To maximize the probiotic value of our yogurt, you should eat one cup or more at a time, every day, in order to provide a steady stream of live probiotics that survive beyond initial digestion.  Two cups of our Bulgarian yogurt equals 160 billion probiotics, not to mention the nutritional value of consuming the yogurt.

Please see our yogurt recipes for many flavorful, quick and easy ways to enjoy the nutritional and probiotic benefits of White Mountain yogurt.

Yogurt Dinner Rolls

YOGURT DINNER ROLLS

Ingredients:

1 cup White Mountain Foods Bulgarian Yogurt

1 T. butter

¼ cup water

2 T. honey

1 pkg. active dry yeast

1¼ white flour

1½ cup white or wheat flour

1 tsp. salt

¼ tsp. baking soda

1 egg or egg substitute

Directions:

In saucepan, heat together yogurt, butter, water, honey and salt until butter is melted. Cool to lukewarm (not cooler than 100º, or yeast won’t activate, but not warmer than 115º or yeast will die). In large bowl, combine yeast, baking soda and 1½ cups flour. Add liquid ingredients. Beat at low speed of electric mixer for 30 seconds. Beat 3 minutes at high speed. Stir in 1¼ cups flour. Dough will be moist and sticky. Place in greased bowl, turning once. Cover and let rise until double, about 1½ hours. Place on floured board and knead lightly. Divide into 12 even pieces, form into round balls and place in well-greased muffin tins. Cover, let rise about 40 minutes. Preheat oven to 400º. Bake 12 to 15 minutes until nicely browned. Rolls freeze well.

We have many other recipes available on our recipe page. If you have a created an original recipe using White Mountain Foods products and would like to see it added to our list of recipes, please send it to us via email at customerservice@whitemountainfoods.com or use our contact form.

Colony Forming Unit (CFU)

Q: What does CFU mean?

A: The probiotic unit of measure, called a CFU or Colony Forming Unit, denotes active bacteria as opposed to inactive or dead bacteria. A single bacterium can divide and form a "colony" of many bacteria. A commercial lab will analyze samples and report a certain number of CFUs (reproductive beneficial bacteria) per gram of product. Every container of yogurt is not going to have the same amount of CFUs per serving. Product age, seasonal ambient temperature, human controlled process variations, varying lactose content of the milk, shipping conditions, etc., can all affect the actual CFU content of a given sample of yogurt. The most recent yogurt independent lab analysis of White Mountain Foods yogurt reported 400 million CFUs per gram of yogurt. That's up to 90 billion per one cup serving, making our yogurt one of the most probiotic-dense foods on the market!

Find more questions and answers about our yogurt in our FAQ.

Tart is Smart

Q: What does the beneficial bacteria do to the milk to make yogurt?

A: Beneficial bacteria basically pre-digest the milk for us making it much easier for our digestive tracts to absorb the milk's nutrients. When the bacteria are introduced to the warm milk they do what any other living thing does: feed, multiply and produce by-products. The bacteria feed on the milk sugar (lactose) converting it to lactic acid (producing the tartness of naturally fermented yogurt), thereby making the milk accessible to those that have a hard time digesting lactose. The lactic acid helps break down milk proteins and other nutrients, making them easier to digest - in addition to providing an astringent preservative effect on the body after consumption.

The rapidly multiplying bacteria cause the milk to thicken due to their sheer numbers and through the formation of strands of living bacteria that do not fully separate from each other during the multiplication process. This stranding effect produces most of the thickness of the finished yogurt, much like adding conditioner to your hair produces a "fuller" look. Once the yogurt has begun to thicken, the temperature must be lowered to slow down the bacteria. If allowed to continue unchecked the bacteria would use up all the lactose and die leaving highly acidic curds and whey.  Timing and temperature control are very important aspects of making traditional yogurt.

Find more questions and answers about our yogurt in our FAQ.

Spicy Ranch Dressing Made With Yogurt

SPICY RANCH DRESSING

Ingredients:
2/3 cups White Mountain Foods Bulgarian Yogurt

1 T. lemon juice

1 tsp. honey

½ tsp. Dijon mustard

¼ cup olive or sunflower oil

Directions:
Combine and season to taste. Blend slowly with spatula to maintain firmness.

This is a great way to bring White Mountain Foods Bulgarian Yogurt into your daily diet and maximize its nutritional and probiotic value.

We have many other recipes available on our recipe page. If you have a created an original recipe using White Mountain Foods products and would like to see it added to our list of recipes, please send it to us via email at customerservice@whitemountainfoods.com or use our contact form.

BPA-Free Packaging

Bisphenol A, a component in some plastics, has come under fire of late due to recent studies that have shown a possible connection between some forms of commonly occurring cancer and consuming foods packaged in plastics containing BPA.

It has been White Mountain Foods position since it's inception that all plastics are to be avoided when it comes to food. Due to market constraints and availability we have been forced to use some plastics in our packaging over the years. The plastics industry has slowly taken over a huge market share of what use to be glass packaging. A few years ago we had to fight to keep glass a legal container for our yogurt. Now it seems the concern over cancer causing chemicals is forcing the food industry to question the use of petroleum based plastics to package food in.

Our research has shown that the containers we package our products in contain NO BPA.

Fearing that we had also gone too far in accepting the use of plastics in our ingredients we researched the containers that all of our ingredients are packaged in and found two that used plastics containing BPA. After contacting those ingredient sources and inquiring about their use of BPA plastics we found that those companies had already implemented a switch to non-BPA plastics and by January 1st 2011 all of our ingredient packaging will be BPA free.

BPA related articles:

Wikipedia

New York Times

Scientific American

Find Our Yogurt In And Around San Francisco

You can find White Mountain Foods Bulgarian Yogurt at many locations in and around San Francisco, California.  Our yogurt can be found in Whole Foods Market stores, Mollie Stone's Markets, Berkeley Bowl, Andronico's, Draeger's, Sprouts and many other health food and grocery stores in the area and in nearby towns.  You can use our product locator  in the right hand column to find our yogurt near you, or use the locating system on our website.

Chilled Cucumber Soup

CHILLED YOGURT & CUCUMBER SOUP
(TARATOR)

Ingredients:
2 cups White Mountain Foods Bulgarian Yogurt

3 cucumbers, finely diced

½ cup walnuts, ground

3-4 cloves garlic, crushed

dill, finely chopped

¼ cup olive or sunflower oil

salt

Directions:
Beat the yogurt, add the crushed garlic, ground walnuts, finely diced cucumbers,

oil and salt. Stir and dilute with cold water. Serve sprinkled with finely chopped

dill. Makes 3-4 servings.

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We have many other recipes available on our recipe page. If you have a created an original recipe using White Mountain Foods products and would like to see it added to our list of recipes, please send it to us via email at customerservice@whitemountainfoods.com or use our contact form.

Yogurt Is A Staple Food

Simple, natural foods have a more wholesome, satisfying texture and flavor than highly processed, additive-laden, artificial products.  For many of us, it is immediately a welcome sensation of physiological relief from the artificially engineered food products of the modern age.  For others, it may take a short time to rediscover and appreciate aspects of our natural palate which big food companies have ignored (or avoided) for decades.

Real yogurt, the naturally tart superfood, has been a staple food for centuries in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, in much the same way that bread, beans or rice are considered major staple foods for a healthy diet in other areas.  In the west it has largely been reconfigured and sweetened into a low-probiotic, pudding-like dessert, or packaged in small, expensive doses as a probiotic health supplement.  When consumed as a staple food should be consumed - a major part of one's daily diet - real yogurt can do wonders for our digestion and for one's sense of health and well-being.

Authentic Taste

Two years ago I mustered the courage to try the non-fat Bulgarian yogurt at Whole foods. Those were the best $4 I ever spent. Ever since then I consume a gallon a week. I love the taste, consistency, healthy feeling of consuming this yogurt. Thank you WMF for a healthy and natural source of protein. – Jeetu

I'm from Albania and finally found the yogurt…that tastes RIGHT. – Ervin

I love your yogurt. Please do not ever use the disgusting thickeners and chemical additives that all the other brands have. – Spero

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Need to contact us?

Have questions about us or our products?  Want to order our product for your store or company?  Do you run a restaurant or prepared food service and would like to use or include our products?  Give us a call, email or come by!  In addition to our retail packaging, we also offer many of our products in bulk for the food service industry.

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What's The Big Deal About Yogurt?

Yogurt was one of the first foods to be termed "health food" in this country. During the health food movement that blossomed at the end of the 1800s and early 1900s yogurt was touted as a life giving tonic and aide to over-all system health. Due in large part to studies done by Russian biologists, Bulgarian yogurt in particular was shown to greatly contribute to the health and longevity of the inhabitants of the Black Sea/Caucasian region of Asia including Bulgaria. To this day that region has one of the highest percentages of centenarians on the planet.

Yogurt is a member of a class of food termed "super foods". Yogurt, cheese, butter milk, kefir, bread, tempeh, shoyu, pickled foods, wine, etc., are all examples of foods that are the result of microbial or enzyme (yeast, bacteria, fungus, etc.) action on common foodstuffs transforming them into nutritional power houses by breaking down and altering certain food molecules into a more usable form. This allows for easier digestion of the food product and increased level of nutrient absorption. 

For example, many people cannot eat milk products in part due to an inability to properly digest lactose, the naturally occurring form of sugar found in milk. The bacteria in yogurt convert the lactose to lactic acid, which is much more easily digestible. The bacteria transferred to the intestines from the consumption of yogurt will also assist in the digestion of all food and help fight off invasion by other bacteria, yeasts, fungi and viruses. Foreign, harmful bacteria have a hard time getting a toehold in our body if there is already a healthy, thriving beneficial bacteria colony taking up the available space and food.

Our body requires microbes to be present in order to properly digest the food we consume. Our intestinal tracts are inoculated with bacteria during pregnancy and from our mother's milk shortly after birth, which helps us digest our food properly and efficiently. Bottle-feeding, age, use of antibiotics, chemotherapy or poor dietary habits can cause our intestinal bacteria to be severely depleted. Regular consumption of yogurt will restock our intestinal tract with the bacteria it needs to provide us with the nutrients necessary to maintain overall system health.

Yogurt is not meant to be just a probiotic supplement. Traditional yogurt is an immune system supporting staple food product packed with easily digestible protein, vitamins and minerals that provides a highly energizing effect on the body.

Around the world yogurt is a part of many traditional diets and is eaten with just about anything from cold soup to rice and lamb and mixed with honey and spices for dessert.

Pancakes

PANCAKES

Ingredients:
1 cup White Mountain Foods Bulgarian Yogurt

2 cups flour

2 tsp. baking powder

1 tsp. baking soda

1 T. honey

1 tsp. salt

1¼ cups milk

2 eggs, beaten or egg substitute

¼ cup vegetable oil

Directions:

Sift together flour, baking powder, soda, honey, and salt. Combine yogurt, milk,

eggs, and oil. Pour liquids into flour; mix until combined. Ladle batter on hot

greased griddle. Fry until golden brown, flip pancake & repeat. Serve covered

with favorite toppings.

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We have many other recipes available on our recipe page. If you have a created an original recipe using White Mountain Foods products and would like to see it added to our list of recipes, please send it to us via email at customerservice@whitemountainfoods.com or use our contact form.