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Acid Whey: Greek Yogurt's Two-Kilogram Byproduct Problem and What the Industry Does With It

Every kilogram of strained yogurt leaves about two kilograms of acid whey behind. It cannot go down the drain, it is hard to dry, and the 2013 "dark side of Greek yogurt" story was about it. Where it goes now, and what is changing.

Vangelis Pallis

2 days ago5 min read

The Greek Yogurt Market in Numbers: Global Size, US Share, Greek Exports and Who Is Growing (2026)

Market-size estimates range from US$19 billion to US$38 billion depending on definition. Greek exports hit €559 million in 2025. Here are the figures, their sources, and what they do and do not measure.

Vangelis Pallis

2 days ago5 min read

A History of Greek Yogurt: From Oxygala and Village Cloth Bags to the 1926 Athens Dairy and the American Boom

Yogurt is older than Greece; strained yogurt is a Balkan-Anatolian craft; "Greek yogurt" as a global product is a story that runs from a Patissia dairy shop in 1926 through a Queens grocer in 1998 to a market worth tens of billions.

Vangelis Pallis

2 days ago6 min read

Greek Yogurt Brands Around the World: Chobani, Oikos, FAGE USA, Stonyfield, siggi's and the Rest

The brands that made "Greek" the biggest yogurt category in America, the ones that followed in Canada, the UK and Australia, and how to tell which of them strain, which thicken, and which are not Greek yogurt at all.

Vangelis Pallis

2 days ago5 min read

The Greek Yogurt Producers of Greece: FAGE, Kri Kri, Olympus, Mevgal, Dodoni, Delta and the Rest

Who actually makes Greek yogurt in Greece, where their plants are, who owns them, what they export and how big they are, with 2025 figures.

Vangelis Pallis

2 days ago5 min read