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Calling it yoghurt is such a lie. It’s sugar with some milk! Not sure about the North American markets but plain old Natural/Greek yoghurt is a good way to avo

Calling it yoghurt is such a lie. It’s sugar with some milk! Not sure about the North American markets but plain old Natural/Greek yoghurt is a good way to avoid tons of added sugar. The majority of them in the UK are not desserts masquerading as sugar. They’re around 3-5% sugar from the milk.

adventured 5y ago
In the US you have three options to avoid the high amounts of sugar in the mass products. You can buy proper natural/greek yogurts, they're fairly common, most grocery stores will have multiple options. You can get various low sugar yogurts. You can go with artificially flavored options, which will be 0-3g of sugar typically. Kroger's (popular grocery store) house brand of vanilla yogurt is 4.6g of sugar per ounce. Their Greek version of that product is about half that sugar level. Noosa vanilla bean yogurt is 4g of sugar per ounce. Their Lemon flavor is 4.3g of sugar per ounce. Yoplait original strawberry is 3.1g of sugar per ounce. Chobani greek yogurt with strawberries added is 2.5g of sugar per ounce. Walmart's house brand of vanilla yogurt is 2.5g of sugar per ounce. Walmart's house brand of plain greek yogurt is about 1g of total sugar per ounce, claiming no added sugars. The Greek Gods plain Greek yogurt is 1.5g of total sugar per ounce. Oikos plain greek yogurt is around 1.1g of total sugar per ounce. Oikos sells a "triple zero" brand of supposedly greek yogurt that is popular at grocery stores in the US. It claims zero sugar, zero sugar added, zero artificial sweeteners. It lists Stevia as its fourth ingredient (I guess they get to claim that's simultaneously not sugar and not an artificial sweetener). Chobani makes a zero sugar line, that claims to have zero sugar and no artificial sweeteners. However they list Allulose on the label, which is really just a sugar (D-psicose). The Two Good brand claims 0.38g of sugar per ounce, they use Stevia as the sweetener. The US has about 4,000 yogurt options to choose from. That might be nice but it actually makes it annoying to sort through and find the quality options in the pile.
- moistly 5y ago
  Grams per ounce is an odd measurement…

adventured 5y ago

In the US you have three options to avoid the high amounts of sugar in the mass products. You can buy proper natural/greek yogurts, they're fairly common, most grocery stores will have multiple options. You can get various low sugar yogurts. You can go with artificially flavored options, which will be 0-3g of sugar typically. Kroger's (popular grocery store) house brand of vanilla yogurt is 4.6g of sugar per ounce. Their Greek version of that product is about half that sugar level. Noosa vanilla bean yogurt is 4g of sugar per ounce. Their Lemon flavor is 4.3g of sugar per ounce. Yoplait original strawberry is 3.1g of sugar per ounce. Chobani greek yogurt with strawberries added is 2.5g of sugar per ounce. Walmart's house brand of vanilla yogurt is 2.5g of sugar per ounce. Walmart's house brand of plain greek yogurt is about 1g of total sugar per ounce, claiming no added sugars. The Greek Gods plain Greek yogurt is 1.5g of total sugar per ounce. Oikos plain greek yogurt is around 1.1g of total sugar per ounce. Oikos sells a "triple zero" brand of supposedly greek yogurt that is popular at grocery stores in the US. It claims zero sugar, zero sugar added, zero artificial sweeteners. It lists Stevia as its fourth ingredient (I guess they get to claim that's simultaneously not sugar and not an artificial sweetener). Chobani makes a zero sugar line, that claims to have zero sugar and no artificial sweeteners. However they list Allulose on the label, which is really just a sugar (D-psicose). The Two Good brand claims 0.38g of sugar per ounce, they use Stevia as the sweetener. The US has about 4,000 yogurt options to choose from. That might be nice but it actually makes it annoying to sort through and find the quality options in the pile.

moistly 5y ago
Grams per ounce is an odd measurement…