How to get the flavors to meld when I add fruit and sugar to plain yogurt?

To sweeten it, add your favorite sweetener: sugar, honey, agave... whatever you prefer. This is important, because sweetness will help bring out the flavor of the fruit.

General advice:

If you have a fruit you want in your yogurt, pick the form (chunks, pureed, mashed, juice) that you want and mix it in. The Chobani yogurts appear have a variety of these forms, always along with some sugar. If you want banana flavor, sure, mash up a banana and mix it in. Or if you want chunks of fruit, chop it up. Assuming the fruit is soft enough, for this purpose, mashing with a fork is probably a good substitute for pureeing; you'll get some small chunks and some juice.

In response to the updates:

if you want actually fruit-flavored yogurt, then you need juice and/or puree. If you don't have any other tools, mash it as best as you can. If you have a small food processor or blender that will work with small enough quantities (or are making big batches), blend things up and stir them in. Juice and puree will disperse quite well through the yogurt.

Bananas mash easily, especially ripe ones, so just do that with a fork. Strawberries aren't as soft, but you should get enough juice to flavor with if you mash them. Pineapple is tougher. If it's juicy enough, you can probably get some juice out by mashing it; otherwise you might be better off with a food processor or blender. (If it's from a can, you can use the liquid from the can, too - that might also have sugar in it.) Depending on how thorough you are, you may want to use the juice and discard the fibrous parts that are left over.

I eat plain greek yogurt one of two ways:

1- Stir in a teaspoon or two of honey and enjoy.
2- Stir in a couple of tablespoons of sweetened granola and a couple of tablespoons of dried cranberries.

Both are delicious.

My wife prefers to stir in a fruit jam. A tablespoon of strawberry jam would sweeten and flavor.

For other additives, I would simply mash up your preferred fresh fruit with a fork and stir it in. Banana, Strawberry, Peach, Cherry and Plum are all quite good and should be sweet enough to overcome the bitterness.

For flavor, you could also try fruit extracts. You might want to toss in some food coloring, as white yogurt that tastes like raspberries can be less "raspberryish" than pink yogurt that tastes like raspberry.

You can get Torani syrups through Amazon and they are amazing... I like passion fruit, peach, raspberry and so forth.... just mix some in to taste...

i enjoy putting frozen fruits (usually berries) in the food processor or blender and blending them up and then mixing them into my greek yogurt or putting the plain greek yogurt in the blender with a cup of almond or coconut milk, a banana, the frozen berries and enjoy it as a smoothie!

I was facing the same problem. An easy and healthy fix I found was to stir in a container of fruit baby food!

I make homemade jam using Sure-Jell (Pink Box - Less Sugar). This jam has a softer set whick makes it great for stirring into plain yogurt. I usually make strawberry jam, but also do blueberry, raspberry, and mango. I was going through way too much jam doing it this way, so I have since perfected making large batches of homemade yogurt flavored with sugar and vanilla.

You could use a squirt of the "Mio" type water flavorings. Adds flavor, sweetness and color without adding any extra calories.

I like to mix lemon curd with plain yogurt to get a lemony flavour, which I love. Another thing I do is add a couple of spoonfuls of those juice powders, strawberry or lemon or whatever you like, and then mix it thoroughly with the yogurt.

Tried something new today & it worked extremely well!!! :) So, I had tried putting straight honey in my yogurt then adding frozen fruit & it would always taste way too much like honey for my taste & I never loved it. So today, I diced a fresh peach & put the peaches in a small pot with a splash of water & approximately 4 tbs of honey & cooked them on low just until they were tender. Then I removed the peaches from the liquid & set them aside & brought the remainder of the delicious peach juices to a boil (I added chia seeds to the liquid as well, but that was just a personal preference to add nutrients). Anyway, then I let the liquid cool & put in the refridgerator for about 10 minutes. After it was cool I added the peaches & liquid to about 1/2 cup of plain greek yogurt. YUM! Tasted way better than store bought peach yogurt! I haven't tried this with frozen fruit, but I'm guessing it would work the same.

Buy a bag of frozen fruit. Add about a tablespoon of sugar to the fruit and let that sit in a bag in the fridge for a day or so, moving it around every now and then. Then fold it into the yogurt.

I use Sweet'N Low, 12 packs to 1qt strained greek style yogurt. I also add LorAnn or Flavor Apprentice food flavorings and Wilton cake decorating colors. Then I add well-drained canned or frozen fruit.

Here is a winner: Mandarin blossom yogurt! 1qt well drained yogurt, 12 packs sweet&low, 8 drops LorAnn citrus blossom flavor, 6 drops Flavor Apprentice honeysuckle flavor, 1/8 tsp wilton yellow color and a small amount of Wilton red color. Use a whisk and mix well but try to leave it kind of "tight". Add 1 well drained 15oz can of mandarin orange segments. Fold in and chill for several hours.