21-05-2025
The best yoghurt for your gut health — is it Greek, skyr or kefir?
The milk aisle of the supermarket often takes the crown for being the most confusing — stacked with an ever expanding choice of products. The yoghurt aisle, however, is a close runner-up. There's natural, Greek, flavoured, low-fat, no-fat, kefir, skyr and sugary gloop that you squeeze out of tubes. So what should we be stocking up on and what ought to be left on the shelves?
'It may be an acquired taste but kefir is king,' says James Vickers, a nutritionist at Vitality health insurance. This tangy, fermented dairy product is made by fermenting kefir grains — clumps of bacteria and yeast that look a bit like sprigs of cauliflower —rather than live cultures, so it's not strictly a yoghurt but usually ends up in
