Yogen Fruz

Hmmm. I’m slightly confused at this place. I don’t get why I have to mix stuff to get flavors. Can’t they just make it simple? Why is there nothing smaller than the small? The children really shouldn’t be eating that much of this, and really, you give me no other choice.
I watched them mix my yogurt, and it seems awfully wasteful. There had to be a better way than to throw away all that yogurt that didn’t mix well. I felt bad seeing her throw away two whole cupfulls of plain yogurt.
My daughter loves every type of dessert, yet couldn’t even finish half of her yogurt. It has a «different» taste that wasn’t too pleasing. She ate the gummy bears and the chocolate sprinkles. Waste of $ 4.
I get that it may be healthy. I’m good on the healthy. Give me flavor!

I love dessert! Especially if it’s ice cold and creamy. So I’m down to try a new yogurt place always! Apparently, this place is a franchise with different locations internationally. They actually have PROBIOTICS in their yogurt. It’s supposed to help with your gut digestion. ;P Anyways, this place also offers non dairy, non fat, and sugar free (Splenda) options as well. For you dieters. The difference with this place is that you can pick a yogurt flavor (limited to chocolate or vanilla) and pick some toppings and they will literally mix it in a machine. Or you can just have a plain yogurt with toppings, like at pinkberry. Smoothies also available. Limited flavors & toppings. That’s why I gave it 3 stars. Otherwise, it has great nutritional value and great for dieting.
YOGURT ORDERED
–Nonfat, No Sugar Added (Splenda) Vanilla yogurt and strawberries & blueberries. They evenly mixed my choices in a special machine. Out came a purple delight of a dieters only hope. Not bad.
ENVIRONMENT
Located in Windward Mall’s renovated food court.
SERVICE
One person working. But, she was nice and patient answering my never ending questions. Fairly quick.
TIPS
Here are the nutrition facts for the dieters or calorie/​carb conscious.

They make Yogurt mix by order.
Base: Vanilla or Chocolate. I had some blackberries and blueberries.
Cash only!
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What makes Yogen Fruz so special is that you can create your own flavors by blending in fruits with either vanilla or chocolate yogurt. My favorite combos are strawberry/​mango + vanilla, blueberry/​banana + vanilla, or bananas/​oreos + chocolate.
Besides that type of yogurt, the real reason why I keep coming back is for their tart! Their tart trumps yogurtland’s, orange grove’s, menchies’, cherry on top’s, blah blah, tarts by miles. The best way to eat it is with some cinnamon and caramel on top, MMM! You can also get their tart swirled with acai. Double MMM!
Aside from yogurts, they have some fabulous smoothies too. Everything is made to order and fresh, so sometimes if they’re busy it can take a while, but the wait is always worth it.
Note: Don’t let other people deter you from coming here when they think that Yogen Fruz’s yogurt is sour. Yogurt is naturally sour and lots of people enjoy the taste of it :)

The good: Located in the Kaneohe Mall Food Court. Better than average quality. The Frozen Yogurt here is nice and creamy. What is even better is that the fruit flavors are real fruit mixed into your yogurt with some high tech machine at the time of purchase.
Now I personally like the chocolate, low fat, and low calorie. 2 gms fat and 110 calories for some rich creamy chocolate. Win! Win!
There are some non fat options as well. My wife had nonfat strawberry that she really liked. Full flavored, but having no fat, you can eat guilt free. Made with frozen but real strawberries. The other FroYo places have fat free fruit flavors but they are more icy than creamy. I will take creamy any time over icy.
The way it is: There is no self service. You know… where you fill your own container and it ends up costing $ 9…that might be good for some who can’t estimate portion size. You can’t put your own toppings on. They did lower the price of toppings from $ 1 to 50cents, but, generally the prices are just a little too high.
Good News: Each order is hand made at the time of ordering.
Bad News: Each order is hand made at the time of ordering. With one worker and the slow process of making the yogen fruz the wait was very long for those behind us.
Workers! Rise up and Unite ! Let’s be real. The only reason someone works at a fast food place is because they need the job and not because they like working a labor intensive machine that produces each frozen order slowly. Last 2 visits here there was one lone worker. I’ve seen it myself, these Kaneohe women work hard inspite of the working conditions. They are conscientious and following high standards even though they are left by themselves, with no help, on friday night. Long line of customers, machine screwing up, fix it yourself and keep on going. I’m surprised that anyone works more than one shift before quitting. Absentee owners? Apparently.
Advice to owners: Lower the price slightly… you will sell a lot more yogen fruz… and be able to hire two employees to work and keep the customers happy and wanting to return again and again. If we were the customers waiting behind us, this would not be a 3 star review.

The plain frozen yogurt was just as stated. Plain frozen yogurt. I feel like the taste of it is different from Yami Yogurt cause it is a little less creamy and a little fresher tasting, if that make any sense.
My daughter said, «what is that flavor». I said, «plain yogurt.» She said, «bleh…» If you like your sugar with yogurt in it then you won’t like it here cause it is not like MenchyYoLand. You won’t like it if you like MYL.
I personally liked it, if I wasn’t so full from eating a HUGE meal right before, I would have ate more. I almost don’t want to add any fruits to it cause it had the right amount of tartness and the right amount of creamy.
My sister LOVES it. I am on the fence. I need to go again to see if I really like it enough to add another star… we will see…
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I really love this place. But I have to admit that I’ve only tried one thing, Non-​fat strawberry lychee with mochi balls. But it’s so yummy and refreshing I gotta give it 4 stars! :) the lychee is refreshing and the strawberry adds to create an awesome combo!
If you haven’t been here before, this is how it works. You chose either chocolate or vanilla… Then if you want non-​fat, low-​fat, sugar free or regular yogurt. My son tried the chocolate because he is a chocoholic… But chocolate mixed with fruits is a strange combo. Then you pick which kinds of fruits you want. They put the yogurt and fruits in this machine and blends the fruit into the yogurt. It’s so strange but so cool that what ends up in your bowl is this smooth blend of the yogurt and fruits you picked.
I think it’s one of those places where if you order the wrong «blend» you can be very disappointed. I would ask the workers if it’s your first try what they would recommend. My husband would never chose to eat here-he’s more a chocolate or hot fudge Sunday person. But I let him try my lychee strawberry and he was hooked! So go there next time you’re in Windward mall… It’s worth a try! Enjoy ;)
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Dear Yogen Fruz,
Ever since Red Mango abandoned me, you are my only yogurt love. I like my yogurt to taste like yogurt, not like weak ice cream drowning in a sea of gummy bears and kids cereals.
Your unadulterated plain tart yogurt is my sirens call. I buy the large size since everyone knows yogurt is a conduit of health and probiotics make you lose weight. Therefore, the more frozen yogurt I cram into my body, the healthier and hotter I’ll be the next morning. Calories are a myth.
I attempt to furtively consume my treat but my husband forces me to share with the children. Who really shouldn’t have any lest the probiotics make them too skinny and their teachers suspect we are starving them. I inform him of this but he seems strangely unconcerned as oft are the ignorant.
I have also tasted your fruit mixed-​in yogurts, and while they are delightful they pale in comparison to your tart.
I am a frozen yogurt purist and therefore better than other people. Except for people who eat plain yogurt with no sugar. And vegans.
Love,
Angela

I like that they offer mall discount., i like the frozen yogurt itself. I strongly dislike the smoothies. Still overpriced and the service isnt that great. I just noticed I already reviewed this place haha and still went back. haha. well im glad i did because i do like the discount since its overprices and the acai yogurt. but still HATEEE THE SMOOOTHIES. I tried the very berry today. It was watery. and tasted like straight up cranberry juice. booo!

Nice creamy yogurt. Too bad its not self serve. The fruits were all frozen so I didnt get any. –sad face–

Thank goodness this isn’t another DIY yogurt shop! Though it was fun when Yogurtland first sprouted up, there’s just too many of them now and the quality was really lacking.
The idea here is that you can pick mix-​ins which they blend in the yogurt for you. I had the original flavor with strawberry mix-​in and it was sublime! The yogurt was creamy and the strawberries gave it a wonderful burst of flavor with each bite. Definitely a fan and will be back for more!

I am a fan of Yogen Früz simply because they offer a delicious, cool, refreshing treat. But there’s something about their yogurt… to me, it seems colder than yogurt from other places. It’s almost icy. Especially on a hot, humid day, this really cools me down from the inside out! They have a decent selection of fruit and candy toppings but I wish they had more nut options. Their honey-​granola hits all the right sweet spots –it’s so good, esp on the plain/​tart yogurt. It’s my home base for simple yogurt. When im in the mood for more variety, however, I head to their competition and end up spending about $ 1 more due to all of the extra toppings I end up adding.

I’ve had this yogurt place before, and It’s just tastes like any other ygourt place. It is a bit creamier than I’m used to and that’s good.
However the main thing is that, it’s kinda pricey for frozen yogurt that is normally sold by the weight.
So I would rather go elsewhere. With the competition, they should fix their prices.

reasons why I think this place beats out the rest:
1. you can create your own frozen yogurt flavor by choosing one or multiple fruit to mix. it costs the same to mix 3 fruits as it is 1.
2. their yogurt has a sweet tang, which is comparable to pinkberry’s frozen yogurt in cali, which I miss dearly.
3. they don’t skimp on the toppings. for about $ 1, you can get 1 topping. for about $ 2, you can get unlimited toppings. not too many «unhealthy» toppings here either.
4. they have great customer service. the guy was very friendly, esp since he found out it was our first visit, so he «taught us the ropes» on how to order.
5. healthy options: lowfat, nonfat, or no sugar options for yogurt, which helps when you’re counting calories.
YAY for frozen yogurt cravings! :)

I was eyeing this place for a while and finally got the nerve to try it out. I guess I am used to yogurt shops that are self serve. I got a rasberry blast smoothie today and i do believe it to be way better than jamba juice. A second time is sure to come to try a yogurt bowl; I like the idea of having the fruit you pick being blended and then mixed into the yogurt.

I sit here at the Windward Mall Food Court, having just wrote my review for Scrambled, I look around and see a really chic looking frozen yogurt place. So I looked it up on my Unilocal app. No review? Is it that no one in Kaneohe uses Unilocal?Why Kaneohe why?
So I blindly go up to Yogen Fruz without any idea of what this place is like. I look around for the soft serve machines that you might find at Yogurtland. Nothing. So I ask… where are the flavors?
The young lady working said, we just have plain frozen yogurt. You choose the fruit you see up front and we blend it into the yogurt for you.
Fresh fruit blended into yogurt, making your own flavors is ingenius! I had just lychee, it came out great. I bit into tiny lychee granules, but I think that’s what gives it that fresh quality.
My only complaint is the prefixed pricing ($ 2.95 SM, 4.95 MD, 6.95 LRG and 0.95 for EACH topping). They should charge by weight.