Grab Yasso Dupe Sundae Shoppe Half Dipped Mint Chip Yogurt Bars in the Aldi Freezer Aisle

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If you’re hoping to find inexpensive knockoffs of name brands, Aldi is always the store to check. The discount grocer fearlessly tries its hand at imitating everything from King’s Hawaiian Rolls to Cheerios to pricey Le Creuset cookware.

This week, I found some chocolate-dipped mint frozen yogurt bars that look a lot like the popular name brand, Yasso, known for frozen Greek yogurt desserts. The Aldi bars are sold under the Sundae Shoppe brand. There isn’t a company called Sundae Shoppe. Aldi puts that name on many of its ice cream products, which may come from various suppliers.

According to the package, the Sundae Shoppe mint chip yogurt bars feature “half dipped mint chocolate chip yogurt with chocolate flavored coating.”

Sundae Shoppe Half Dipped Mint Chip Yogurt Bars are an Aldi Find, which means they’re in stores for just a short time. Each store receives one shipment, and after that sells out, they’re gone until whenever Aldi might decide to bring them back. Aldi does not offer online ordering for these if they’re sold out at your local store.

These cost $3.69 for a 10.6-ounce package that contains four 2.65-ounce bars. That comes out to about 35 cents per ounce, or about 92 cents per bar.

For comparison, Walmart was selling name-brand Yasso Mint Chocolate Chip Greek Yogurt Bars for $4.98 at the time of publication for a 14-ounce box of four 3.5-ounce bars. That comes out to about 36 cents per ounce, or about $1.25 per bar.

That’s not much of a difference in price per ounce between the Aldi brand and the name brand. Keep in mind that the Yasso bars are each almost an ounce larger than the Aldi bars, which accounts for the higher price per bar for the name brand. With that said, which brand you prefer may come down to what ingredients you prefer, specifically when it comes to how these are sweetened, which we’ll look at below.

These Aldi bars are made with reduced fat yogurt, which has a lengthy ingredients list that includes not just cream, skim milk, and sugar, but also erythritol (a sugar alcohol), stevia (a sugar substitute), and monk fruit (a sweetener). The bars also contain some processed ingredients such as various gums and carrageenan. The use of sugar alcohols, substitutes, and alternatives sets the Aldi bars apart from the Yasso mint bars, which are sweetened with just sugar.

One 48-gram bar from Aldi has 100 calories, 6 grams of total fat (8% DV), 4.5 grams of saturated fat (23% DV), 25 mg of sodium (1% DV), 15 grams of total carbohydrates (5% DV), 1 gram of dietary fiber (4% DV), 9 grams of total sugars, 6 grams of added sugars (12% DV), and 2 grams of protein.

If you’re looking out for allergens, the Sundae Shoppe bars contain milk and soy. They are kosher certified.

For comparison, the name-brand Yasso mint chocolate chip bars are sweetened only with sugar, but like their Aldi counterpart they also contain some processed ingredients you wouldn’t find in a home kitchen. Yasso bars are a bit larger at 65 grams, and they still contain just 100 calories per bar like the Aldi bars. Yasso bars are lower in fat, with just 2 grams of total fat and 1.5 grams of saturated fat. The Yasso bars contain no sugar alcohols, substitutes, or alternatives, and they have 9 grams of added sugar per serving compared to the Aldi bars’ 6 grams.

Did you pick up these mint chip yogurt bars? What did you think of them? How do you think they compare to the name brand? Leave us a comment below.