As the work experience girl at MCG, I expected to be making endless cups of tea, and alphabetically organising hundreds of files, so I was delighted when Rachel asked me to run their weekly taste test.

The food in question today was raspberry flavoured yoghurts. I know what you’re thinking; can eight products made up of milk and raspberries really taste that different? As we found out, the answer was yes, very!

As with most snacks, it is perhaps fair to say that there are high brow yoghurts, and low brow yoghurts. And, keeping in tradition with the previous MCG taste tests, we wanted to find out how the supermarkets’ own brands compare with market leaders in the yoghurt world such as Muller.

The raspberry yoghurts under the intense scrutiny of the MCG team were:

• Longley Farm
• Muller Vitality
• Muller Light
• Marks and Spencer organic + low fat
• Co-op
• Activia
• Tesco low fat
• Rachels organic low fat

We marked each yoghurt out of ten on the following criteria: colour, texture, taste and fruitiness.

With the test underway, extremely perceptive comments and detailed analysis began to emerge; where sample 7 was described as being ‘rancid’, sample  2 had a somewhat ‘baby-foodesque element about it’, sample 6 tasted of Chinese food, but sample 1 resembled feet. Certainly not typical phrases associated with yoghurts!

After a lot of pot dipping, and spoon licking, the results were as follows:

8^th: Muller Light 77/200

7^th: Longley Farm 86/200

6^th: Tesco low fat 89/200

5^th: Muller Vitality 100/200

4^th: Marks and Spencer organic low fat 101/200

3^rd: Rachels organic low fat 115/200

2^nd: Co-op 116/200

Winner: Activia 117/200

So, Activia continues to maintain its well-respected place in the world of yoghurts. As an added bonus, it’s virtually fat free. So, lids off to Activia for providing us with a delicious, guilt-free treat.

Unfortunately however, this ‘healthy-tasty’ combination was not true of the other samples. With Activia as an exception, it should perhaps come as no surprise that the healthier yoghurts in our selection were dismissed as thinner in texture, watery, and lacking fruity bits. In contrast, the yoghurts which got us scraping our pots for more were the creamier, thicker kind. And, you’ve guessed it, loaded with full fat milk!

So when it comes to yoghurts, we like them rich in colour, thick and creamy, smooth (with fruity bits as long as they’re not too chunky),  tasting of ‘actual’ raspberries as opposed to ‘fake’ raspberries, and finally, not tasting of a gone off Chinese takeaway.

Not asking too much from this playtime snack are we..?