The Gist

Is Probiotic Yogurt a Health Craze That’s Stuck Around Too Long?

Mike Pesca and Mo Rocca discuss in The Gist’s Slate Plus bonus segment.

In the Slate Plus bonus segment of Friday’s edition of The Gist, Sunday Morning correspondent Mo Rocca joins The Gist’s Mike Pesca for this week’s NOTBAT about the health-craze surrounding yogurt.

Mike and Mo reminisce about a far-gone time when yogurt was just another breakfast food. But today? There’s countless types of yogurt available to consumers—starting with the probiotic kind. Is probiotic yogurt just another health fad? What’s with all the fancy words like probiotic yogurt and antibiotic drugs? And why are these labels so confusing?

Do you have an interesting or provocative observation of your own? Submit yours at notbat@slate.com.