Kansas City should embrace frozen yogurt

Forget the aspartame tang of frozen yogurt still familiar from its ’80s dieting fad. You could believe that was not yogurt. Instead, swap out the sweet fro-yo for the Korean-style tart stuff — the dessert equivalent of Greek yogurt.

Five years after Pinkberry opened its first shop in Southern California, the tart-yogurt wars have come to Kansas City. In the blue corner stands Mochi Yo, the Leawood shop. And in the red corner is the recently opened Red Mango, near the University of Missouri-Kansas City campus.