Question About Yoghurt

[melliebobs]

Speak to me about yoghurt. I'm not low carving as such. Just being a bit more careful over what I eat. So started with breakfast. Swapped 2 slices of white with jam n butter for strawberries, raspberries and activia 0% vanilla yoghurt.

Put it all in MFP and on my lil pie chart it says big chunk of my food has been carbs. Ok I know there's the sugars in the fruit. But I'm guessing the yogurts pumped it up too.

I'd've thought yoghurt would be more dairy/protein though. Or is it now carbs? Wth? Baffled

[sammisatt]

That yoghurt will be full of sugar from the fruit (fructose) and the lactose in the yoghurt. There will probably be added sugar too as with low fat yogs the manufacturers usually add sugar to compensate for the lack of fat.


You'll be much better off with a high fat fruit free yoghurt. Higher the fat lower the lactose. Definitely avoid fruit yoghurts as they are carb bombs. Total full fat Greek yoghurt is the best. It will fill you up, is low carb and absolutely delicious.

[melliebobs]

I usually have Greek yoghurt in for dd but dh decided to go off list n get vanilla activia instead.

[BIWI]

Firstly, if you're low carbing you should be going for full fat, not low fat. And that yoghurt will have been full of sugar!

Total is by far the best - and their full fat one is only 3.8g carbs per 100g. You can add vanilla extract if you want a vanilla flavour.