Betavivo Blueberry & Yoghurt Breakfast Pots:
Recipe, Review and Giveaway
Breakfast is my favourite meal of the day, whether it be a slap-up Full English Breakfast (called a FEB in our house), a buttery croissant served with ruby-red raspberry preserves, creamy porridge, toast and Marmite (I’m a Marmite lover) or something a bit healthier, such as my recipe for today for Betavivo Blueberry & Yoghurt Breakfast Pots. So, apart from the yoghurt and blueberries, ingredients we all know, what is Betavivo? Betavivo are crispy oat hearts with a high content of beta-glucan, which lowers cholesterol and blood glucose; they are made in Sweden with natural raw materials from oat bran, cornmeal and fructose (from apple).
I am always on the look out for healthy food and so when Betavivo sent me a week’s worth of these oat hearts to try, l was fascinated to see what they tasted like. To enjoy them at their best, I devised a quick and easy breakfast recipe – it is suggested that you eat them with milk, like your usual breakfast cereal, or add them to other cereals, but being a fruit and yoghurt lover, I decided to create some little breakfast pots using my Betavivo oat hearts. As I had a small punnet of blueberries and a couple of pots of thick Greek style yoghurt, it seemed natural to add my Betavivo hearts to those ingredients, along with a sprig or two of fresh mint leaves.
These little Blueberry & Yoghurt Breakfast Pots were delicious and the Betavivo oat hearts added a wonderful crunch; they tasted sweeter than expected but their was a definite oaty taste and the texture was light with the hearts holding their shape well when added to the yoghurt. (I hate soggy cereal!) So, who should think about adding Betavivo to their diet? Here are the recommendations from the official UK website:
Who should use Betavivo?
* Those who need to lower their blood cholesterol.
* Those with impaired glucose tolerance – often those with metabolic syndrome, pre-diabetes or type 2 diabetes.
* Anyone who wishes to maintain normal blood cholesterol levels and a healthy heart.
The lovely folks over at Betavivo have kindly donated ONE MONTH’s supply of Betavivo oat hearts to all Lavender and Lovage readers as a giveaway! You can enter the giveaway at the end of this post, just after my recipe for Blueberry & Yoghurt Breakfast Pots. For more information about Betavivo and the benefits of adding it to your daily diet, just pop over to their site here: Q&A I am a convert and I am considering adding them to my diet to help lower my cholesterol, which is slightly high at present, and an all natural additive has to be better than Statins, which I refuse to take – I try to control my cholesterol through diet and lifestyle. DO enter the giveaway and if you are already a lover of Betavivo, I hope you enjoy these breakfast pots as much as we do! Karen
Little Blueberry & Yoghurt Oat Pots
Print recipe
| Serves | 2 |
| Prep time | 5 minutes |
| Dietary | Vegetarian |
| Meal type | Breakfast, Snack |
| Misc | Child Friendly, Pre-preparable, Serve Cold |
| Region | British |
| By author | Karen S Burns-Booth |
Ingredients
- 2 x small pots of natural Greek yoghurt
- 75g fresh blueberries
- 2 x packets Betavivo oat hearts
- fresh mint leaves, to garnish
Note
Delightful little breakfast pots of goodness, these can be whipped up in 5 minutes on the morning, or can be assembled the night before.....Betavivo oat hearts are available at leading Lloyds Pharmacies, Holland & Barrett stores and independent pharmacies.
Directions
| Step 1 | Layer the ingredients in small water glasses, starting with yoghurt, blueberries and then Betavivo oat hearts. |
| Step 2 | Continue to layer this way finishing with some blueberries and a scattering of Betavivo oat hearts. |
| Step 3 | Garnish with fresh mint leaves. |
GIVEAWAY:
Prize:
One month’s supply of Betavivo oat hearts (RRP: £35)
To enter this Giveaway, all you have to do is the following:
1. Complete the Rafflecopter widget below to verify your entries – THREE mandatory questions will appear, which you need to answer by leaving an answer to the question shown above at the bottom of the post, following Betavivo UK and me on Twitter, before going back to the Rafflecopter form and hitting “Enter”. (After this, you can complete the bonus entries as explained on the form to increase your odds of winning – you can also return daily to tweet this for more bonus entries)
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