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No, commercial sweetened yogurt products are. Which seems to most 99% of yogurts sold in most supermarkets in the US. Those have little to do with plain yogurt
by pretoriusB 14y ago
No, commercial sweetened yogurt products are. Which seems to most 99% of yogurts sold in most supermarkets in the US.
Those have little to do with plain yogurt, as it comes out from the traditional process and as we know it in Europe.
Plain yogurt has very little sugar and only naturally occurring at that:
http://www.fageusa.com/products/fage-total-0-percent/ http://www.fageusa.com/products/fage-total-0-percent/
- Evgeny 14y agoI absolutely can not believe that natural yogurt may somehow have 0 calories from fat. Fat occurs naturally in milk, from which this yogurt was made. Therefore, if this yogurt has 0 fat, it has been removed by an industrial process. I wouldn't eat that. The greek yogurt in my fridge has about 10% fat (7% saturated), and 6% carbohydrate (4.9% sugars). That sound close enough to natural proportions for me to believe it was not heavily processed.
- anigbrowl 14y agoMaking yogurt involves adding a culture to milk. The culture eats the fat and turns it into protein. Natural yogurt has little to no fat.
- pretoriusB 14y agoActual full yogurt is around 10% fat, yes. This one had the fat removed (but that's an easy process, and doesn't alter chemically the base product or add any substance to the ingredients). That said, the whole process to create this (even the fat-less version) is the basic, standard yogurt creation process known since the dawn on civilization, and not some mix of flavors, sweeteners and food processing that characterizes modern "yogurts".
- droithomme 14y ago"No ... 99% is" Ok, so basically, for all intents and purposes, 'yogurt is full of sugar.' Thus, 'yes'.
- KC8ZKF 14y ago"Commercial sweetened yogurt products" are not "yogurt."
- droithomme 14y agoYeah I make real yogurt at home and I've had real yogurt in the middle east. You really want to make the argument that these american programming offices have access to homemade yogurt? I really am skeptical this is an option when even fresh vegetables are not normally available. It's like you're asking why don't they eat partridge, peacock or grouse meat in order to avoid the hormones in commercial chicken from the grocery store. Kind of an absurd argument. Why don't we restrict the discussion to what is actually going on rather than some unrealistic fantasies?
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- snogglethorpe 14y agoEr, what? Plain unsweetened yogurt is not something exotic, it's easily available in supermarkets...right next to all the sweetened yogurts.
- baddox 14y ago"People have two eyes." "No they don't, only 99% of people have two eyes." "Yeah, so basically, people have two eyes." "No, those people with two eyes aren't 'people.'"
- KC8ZKF 14y agoYogurt is an ingredient in some yogurt products, just as pinto beans are an ingredient in some chilies. Nobody argues that pinto beans and chili are the same thing.
- pretoriusB 14y agoThe above is a logical fallacy (and a distorted form of the issue under discussion). It's the actual definition and quality of something that matters, not the popularity of a mis-representation of it. Statistics do not define substance. Even if 99% of milk sold was chocolate milk, that wouldn't mean that milk contains cocoa. Milk is a specific thing, yogurt is another. You're only confused in the case of yogurt, because whereas "chocolate milk" is sold with a different name than that of milk (that makes the different obvious), sweetened flavored yogurt is sold as "yogurt".