How to make yogurt not taste like yogurt

Seconding smoothies. We buy Naked Juice and other good stuff (pomegranate, etc) whenever it's on sale, freeze it into ice cubes, and keep them in bags in the fridge. A morning smoothie is a few cubes from each bag, some frozen blueberries, a banana, juice, and milk or yogurt. They rock. Also, what about frozen yogurt? Does that kill the bacteria?

I second the lassi option. Not only mango, but banana, kiwi, strawberry. If you like indian flavors you'll love it, because the sweet-and-sour quality of the drink and the cardamom spice completely overpower the yogurt, you can't even taste it. My recipe: 1 cup plain yogurt 2 cups milk 1 mango (you may want to increase or decrease the amount of fruit according to your taste) 1 or 2 cardamom (open them and use only the seeds inside) 2 to 4 spoons of sugar or sweetener 1 pinch of salt If the milk is not cold, add a couple ice cubes Just blend everything until smooth. And to treat yourself right, serve in a tall glass, with straws and peppermint leaves on top. Enjoy!

Listen, what you're really looking for here is the active cultures in yogurt. As a lot of the posters above have noted, these are available in pill form (and need to be refrigerated). The problem is that for the cultures to do any good, you have to take them on as empty a stomach as possible. So eating lots of yogurt or disguising yogurt by mixing it with lots of other foods completely negates the effect of what you're trying to do. Get the pills and take them just before you go to sleep, well after your last meal. That way you'll get the benefits you're looking for.

There's an australian yogurt which is high in l.acidophilus (howdy, fellow thrush sufferer!) that is *excellent* -- it's more of a creamy liquid and doesn't taste anything like US yogurt. The above suggestions of greek yogurt are good to, I also like 'Nancy's Organic Whole Milk Yogurt' which is also not like your usual grocery store yogurt.

You may find this thread http://ask.metafilter.com/16299/I-finally-have-that-healthy-intestinal-flora-Ive-been-dreaming-of.

Trader Joe's pre-stirred lemon yogurt. It doesn't smell like yogurt, it doesn't taste like yogurt. It's like a delicious lemon pudding. I hate that yogurt taste/smell. I've tried many different brands, including several of the other Trader Joe's flavors. It's also pre-stirred, which frees up an extra 1.3 seconds per serving.

if its just the throat coating/soothing you need perhaps a fromage frais would do the trick? They're like yoghurt but not gross. I too cant stand yoghurt (even greek yoghart), I don't like the taste, the texture or the smell but I remember liking fromage frais as a kid. Maybe combine that with a probiotic pill as others have suggested.

Try http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_19209,00.html. It tastes more like mangoes than like yoghurt in my opinion. (Link via http://ask.metafilter.com/67687/What-is-your-favourite-nonalcoholic-refreshment#1013995 from yesterday.)

What per cent milk fat is it?