Keep Your New Year's Resolutions Intact with TCBY Healthy Indulgences

Frozen Yogurt Innovator Encourages Customers to Begin the Year with Guilt-Free Favorites

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Jan 03, 2013, 10:00 ET

BROOMFIELD, Colo., Jan. 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading the frozen yogurt market in better-for-you, great-tasting products, TCBY, The Country's Best Yogurt and frozen yogurt innovator, kicks off 2013 by satisfying the sweet tooth of customers nationwide. Beginning at the start of the year, TCBY will offer, for a limited time, nonfat Frosted Sugar Cookie, nonfat Double Fudge Brownie and 97 percent fat free Wedding Cake soft-serve frozen yogurt. Frosted Sugar Cookie and Double Fudge Brownie flavors will pack a punch of prebiotics, vitamins, protein, calcium and live active probiotic cultures, qualifying for the Super Fro-Yo classification. An Excellence in Innovation award winner, Super Fro-Yo flavors are considered among the healthiest frozen yogurt in the industry.

"We understand that our customers view the New Year as the perfect time to evaluate food choices and pledge to make healthier decisions in 2013," explains Dr. Wayne Geilman, product development manager and food scientist at TCBY. "Our new flavors, Frosted Sugar Cookie, Double Fudge Brownie and Wedding Cake, are not only decadent and delicious, but they also are filled with vitamins and nutrients, making them the perfect choice for those looking for healthier alternatives. By maintaining the flavor profiles, all while enhancing the nutritionals, we are able to provide our customers with more value and satisfaction when they choose to enjoy one of our new flavors."

Limited Time Offers
Frosted Sugar Cookie will arrive in participating stores in January, Double Fudge Brownie in February and Wedding Cake in March. Both Frosted Sugar Cookie and Double Fudge Brownie are nonfat, while Wedding Cake is 97 percent fat free. All flavors include protein and calcium and contain real California milk.

Flavors are available in participating stores nationwide for a limited time.

Super Fro-Yo
In addition to its tremendous health benefits, Super Fro-Yo flavors also meet the following guidelines per serving:

Minimum three grams of fiber
Minimum four grams of protein
Minimum seven types of live active probiotics cultures
Minimum 20 percent DV of vitamin D
Minimum 20 percent DV of Calcium

Even with an indulgent flavor profile, our Super Fro-Yo classics also contain 120 calories or less, a minimum of 10 percent DV of Vitamin A, one gram or less of saturated fat and a minimum of 20 billion live active probiotics cultures per serving at manufacturing.

For more information, visit www.tcby.com.

About TCBY
Based in Broomfield, CO, TCBY, The Country's Best Yogurt has been a frozen yogurt innovator from the day its first shop opened in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1981. Ever since, the great-tasting, low-fat frozen yogurt concept has received an enthusiastic response from an increasingly health-conscious public. TCBY boasts the industry's healthiest traditional frozen yogurt choice, Super Fro-Yo, the 2011 Prepared Foods Excellence in Innovation award winner, as well as the industry's first-to-market Greek frozen yogurt option. With more than 650 locations in the United States and internationally, TCBY has long been a healthier alternative for consumers looking for a treat or snack. To learn more check out www.TCBY.com.

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