New Froyo Flavors & Flavor Trends in 2020

It’s time for our annual round-up of new froyo flavors. This was a challenging year for froyo businesses. Due to COVID-19, many shops reduced hours of operation and did not offer samples. Therefore, there were fewer new flavors introduced this year (55 this year, 88 last year). But, there were new flavor introductions. Menchie’s continued to introduce the most new flavors.

We’ve organized the new flavors alphabetically by shop or manufacturer.

16 Handles

• Vegan Chocolate Devotion oat milk soft serve
• Vegan Dreamboat Coconut oat milk soft serve
• Vegan Black Raspberry oat milk soft serve
• Chocolate Peppermint Candy made with oat milk

Honey Hill Farms/ Sugar Creek Foods

Marcel’s

• Braai’d Marshmallow froyo
• Peppermint Tart froyo

Menchie’s

• Chocolate Mousse Cheesecake froyo
• Frosted Animal Cookie froyo
• Carrot Cake OREO froyo
• Mint Chocolate Chip with Almond Butter (vegan)
• Café Mocha froyo
• HI-CHEW Mango froyo
• HI-CHEW Passion Fruit froyo
• Gourmet Caramel Vanilla Gelato
• Pumpkin Spice froyo made with Nilla Wafer froyo
• Cinnamon Bun froyo made with Philadelphia Cream Cheese
• Double Chocolate froyo made with Ghirardelli

Menchie’s Canada

• The Cheesecake Factory Lemon Raspberry Cream froyo
• The Cheesecake Factory Peanut Butter Fudge Ripple froyo

Orange Leaf

Pinkberry

• Pinkberry Cookies and Cream Pinkbee’s light ice cream
• Pinkberry Acai Berry froyo
• Pinkberry Watermelon Lime froyo

Pinkberry Nigeria

• Lite Berries froyo, no sugar added
• Mixed Berries froyo, no sugar added

Pinkberry Peru

• Strawberry Cherimoya froyo

Pinkberry Philippines

• Auro Dark Chocolate froyo

Red Mango El Salvador

• Jamaica, vegan soft serve

sweetFrog

• Berry, Be Mine sorbet
• Kidz Bop Cookie Remix froyo

Yoga-urt

• Maple Banana Pancake vegan, organic froyo
• Rocky Road vegan, organic froyo (with soy)
• Ultimate Ube vegan, organic froyo
• Key Lime vegan, organic froyo
• Coconut Macaroon vegan, organic froyo
• Chocolate Peppermint vegan, organic froyo

Yogen Fruz

Yogurtland

• Plant-Based Salted Chocolate Souffle made with coconut milk
• Mixed Berry Smoothie Bowl – vegan, no sugar added
• Brambleberry Pie froyo
• Orange Blossom White Peach light ice cream
• Honey Roasted Peanut soft serve
• Cold Brew Coffee light ice cream

Yogurty’s

• Sticky Fingers froyo
• Cappuccino Frappe froyo

Froyo vs. Froyo Alternatives

Of the new flavors, 50% were froyo and 50% froyo alternatives. This was about the same as in 2019. Of the froyo alternatives, vegan soft serve was the most popular, accounting for 36% of the new flavors. Interestingly, 16 Handles were all dairy-free, as they were in 2019. This year, 16 Handles introduced oat milk vegan flavors. It was the only chain on this list to offer oat milk based soft serve.

Branded Ingredient Partnerships

There weren’t as many brand partnerships this year, but there were a few because of Menchie’s: Nabisco (Oreo, Nilla), Snickers, Hi-Chew, Philadelphia Cream Cheese, The Cheesecake Factory, and Auro Chocolate (with Pinkberry Philippines). Oreo and Hi-Chew are returning brands from last year’s list.

Specific Flavors

In terms of specific flavors, fruit flavors led the way, accounting for 38% of the new flavors. Baked goods/dessert inspired flavors continued to be popular, accounting for 30% of new flavors, with 4 new cheesecake flavors and 2 non-cheesecake flavors with cream cheese. Candy flavors represented 14% of new flavors, tied with chocolate (14%), and followed by coffee (6%).

We were pleased to see local flavors like Pinkberry Philippines Auro Dark Chocolate froyo and Marcel’s South African flavors, Braai’d Marshmallow and Peppermint Tart.

Are we missing any flavors that you’d like to see added? Let us know at info@internationalfrozenyogurt.com and we’ll add them to our list.