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Yoghurt (with some exceptions) contain lots of sugar. Better to eat greek yoghurt or quark.

by bni 2y ago

darkhorn 2y ago
Oh, Jesus Christ! Why they don't write sugary yogurt? I forgot that Americans were consuming yogurt with sugar. Normally there is no sugar in the yogurt. There is sugar only if you add it. In the Balkans and Central Asia yogurt is sold without adding sugar.
- dustincoates 2y ago
  It's not just Americans that add sugar to yogurt. [0][1] If you don't want to translate that, the second ingredient in the listing is sugar. The second link says that 50% of French people add sugar to the plain yogurt they buy from the store. 0: https://www.carrefour.fr/p/yaourt-fruits-mixes-brasse-carrefour-classic-3245412897993?t=36995 https://www.carrefour.fr/p/yaourt-fruits-mixes-brasse-carref... 1: https://www.cerin.org/breves-scientifiques/quelle-quantite-de-sucre-ajoute-t-on-dans-notre-yaourt-nature/ https://www.cerin.org/breves-scientifiques/quelle-quantite-d...
  - rob74 2y ago
    The first link is a fruit yoghurt, which besides fruit, aromas etc. also contains sugar. As for the second link, if people add sugar to their yoghurt, that's their decision - but the fact remains that "plain" yoghurt bought in the store in Europe usually doesn't contain (added) sugar.
- atwrk 2y ago
  Pure yoghurt naturally already contains 3-4 g of sugar (lactose) per 100 g.
  - FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
    Yeah, people forget about milk sugars. Low-fat milk still has calories for this reason. But the glycemic index is worse. Whole milk in smaller quantities is better.
- addicted 2y ago
  It looks like this entire thread is people who haven’t even read the article and are just spewing their preconceived notions (par for the course for the “carbs are evil” crew). It’s a study on Finnish children. It has nothing to do with Americans. I don’t know whether or not their yogurts tend to be sugary but nothing mentioned by anyone commenting on this thread has anything to do with the study. This is a far better link with quotes from the researchers and others pointing out how this is extremely preliminary at best (not even peer reviewed yet, and even once it gets past peer review, it’s simply observational and cannot establish causation). https://www.newsweek.com/type-1-diabetes-child-diet-nutrition-research-food-1949941 https://www.newsweek.com/type-1-diabetes-child-diet-nutritio...
- globular-toast 2y ago
  There is sugar in yoghurt: lactose. It's about 1/10 as sweet as sucrose (table sugar) so you might not be aware it's there. If the yoghurt is low fat then it has proportionally more sugar. There are no "low carb" yoghurts. Sweet yoghurt is definitely not an American thing. Up until the last 10-15 years it was quite hard to find unsweetened yoghurt in either the UK or much of Europe. In France it was particularly hard as they seemed to prefer sweetened set yoghurt. In Spain that's still the default as of quite recently.
- jjallen 2y ago
  Here in Switzerland the yogurt has tons of sweeteners added. This is joy only an American problem. Other countries trail in obesity and diabetes but are quickly catching up.
  - thomasmg 2y ago
    In Switzerland, we have yogurt with and without sugar, with and without sweeteners, with and without lactose, etc. You can buy 319 different yogurts in the supermarket: https://www.coop.ch/de/search/?text=yogurt https://www.coop.ch/de/search/?text=yogurt I remember when I lived in the United States, you basically had "fat free" (with lots of sugar) and "greek" (with a little bit of fat, in addition to the sugar). That was 20 years ago, so it might have changed since then.
- xenospn 2y ago
  In America, they add sugar to the sugar. You literally cannot escape it. I have a sneaking suspicion they add it to tap water.
dragonwriter 2y ago
Greek (strained; or, in the US, often thickened with thickening agents) yoghurt just (ideally, if it is actually strained and not thickened) has less whey, which slightly reduces the amount of sugar, but isn't a huge difference. The big difference is between plain (unsweetened) and sweetened yoghurts, which is a dichotomy that applies the same to strained as unstrained yoghurts. And it has little to do with the subject of the study, anyway.
- FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
  > often thickened with thickening agents This is why low-fat "yogurt" is an abomination. It pretends to be yogurt but it isn't. You can compare the same brand on the refrigerator shelf; the ingredients list for the whole-fat will be like "milk, cultures", but the low-fat's ingredient list will be many lines long. Just get the real thing, know how calorie-dense it is, and don't eat too much of it. It'll taste better too.

Yoghurt (with some exceptions) contain lots of sugar. Better to eat greek yoghurt or quark.

by bni 2y ago

Yoghurt (with some exceptions) contain lots of sugar. Better to eat greek yoghurt or quark.

Oh, Jesus Christ! Why they don't write sugary yogurt? I forgot that Americans were consuming yogurt with sugar. Normally there is no sugar in the yogurt. There is sugar only if you add it. In the Balkans and Central Asia yogurt is sold without adding sugar.

dustincoates 2y ago
It's not just Americans that add sugar to yogurt. [0][1] If you don't want to translate that, the second ingredient in the listing is sugar. The second link says that 50% of French people add sugar to the plain yogurt they buy from the store. 0: https://www.carrefour.fr/p/yaourt-fruits-mixes-brasse-carrefour-classic-3245412897993?t=36995 https://www.carrefour.fr/p/yaourt-fruits-mixes-brasse-carref... 1: https://www.cerin.org/breves-scientifiques/quelle-quantite-de-sucre-ajoute-t-on-dans-notre-yaourt-nature/ https://www.cerin.org/breves-scientifiques/quelle-quantite-d...
- rob74 2y ago
  The first link is a fruit yoghurt, which besides fruit, aromas etc. also contains sugar. As for the second link, if people add sugar to their yoghurt, that's their decision - but the fact remains that "plain" yoghurt bought in the store in Europe usually doesn't contain (added) sugar.
atwrk 2y ago
Pure yoghurt naturally already contains 3-4 g of sugar (lactose) per 100 g.
- FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
  Yeah, people forget about milk sugars. Low-fat milk still has calories for this reason. But the glycemic index is worse. Whole milk in smaller quantities is better.
addicted 2y ago
It looks like this entire thread is people who haven’t even read the article and are just spewing their preconceived notions (par for the course for the “carbs are evil” crew). It’s a study on Finnish children. It has nothing to do with Americans. I don’t know whether or not their yogurts tend to be sugary but nothing mentioned by anyone commenting on this thread has anything to do with the study. This is a far better link with quotes from the researchers and others pointing out how this is extremely preliminary at best (not even peer reviewed yet, and even once it gets past peer review, it’s simply observational and cannot establish causation). https://www.newsweek.com/type-1-diabetes-child-diet-nutrition-research-food-1949941 https://www.newsweek.com/type-1-diabetes-child-diet-nutritio...
globular-toast 2y ago
There is sugar in yoghurt: lactose. It's about 1/10 as sweet as sucrose (table sugar) so you might not be aware it's there. If the yoghurt is low fat then it has proportionally more sugar. There are no "low carb" yoghurts. Sweet yoghurt is definitely not an American thing. Up until the last 10-15 years it was quite hard to find unsweetened yoghurt in either the UK or much of Europe. In France it was particularly hard as they seemed to prefer sweetened set yoghurt. In Spain that's still the default as of quite recently.
jjallen 2y ago
Here in Switzerland the yogurt has tons of sweeteners added. This is joy only an American problem. Other countries trail in obesity and diabetes but are quickly catching up.
- thomasmg 2y ago
  In Switzerland, we have yogurt with and without sugar, with and without sweeteners, with and without lactose, etc. You can buy 319 different yogurts in the supermarket: https://www.coop.ch/de/search/?text=yogurt https://www.coop.ch/de/search/?text=yogurt I remember when I lived in the United States, you basically had "fat free" (with lots of sugar) and "greek" (with a little bit of fat, in addition to the sugar). That was 20 years ago, so it might have changed since then.
xenospn 2y ago
In America, they add sugar to the sugar. You literally cannot escape it. I have a sneaking suspicion they add it to tap water.

dragonwriter 2y ago

Greek (strained; or, in the US, often thickened with thickening agents) yoghurt just (ideally, if it is actually strained and not thickened) has less whey, which slightly reduces the amount of sugar, but isn't a huge difference. The big difference is between plain (unsweetened) and sweetened yoghurts, which is a dichotomy that applies the same to strained as unstrained yoghurts. And it has little to do with the subject of the study, anyway.

FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
> often thickened with thickening agents This is why low-fat "yogurt" is an abomination. It pretends to be yogurt but it isn't. You can compare the same brand on the refrigerator shelf; the ingredients list for the whole-fat will be like "milk, cultures", but the low-fat's ingredient list will be many lines long. Just get the real thing, know how calorie-dense it is, and don't eat too much of it. It'll taste better too.