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236 ALICE CALLAHAN, PHD, HEATHER LEONARD, MED, RDN, AND TAMBERLY POWELL, MS, RDN
Figure 4.38. Strawberry yogurt with Nutrition Facts and ingredient list.
To answer this question, we again have to look at the ingredients list. Like the plain
yogurt, the first ingredient is milk, but this strawberry yogurt also contains cane sugar and
strawberries. Based on these ingredients, the added sugar comes from sucrose in cane
sugar,and the naturally-occurring sugar is from the lactose from the milk and the glucose,
fructose, and sucrose in the strawberries.
Not all yogurts are created equal, and many of them have less ingredients and less sugar
than the example given above with the Greek yogurt. One example is siggi’s Icelandic style
skyr. As you can see in the images below, the ingredients are simple, and there is a lot less
sugar than traditional yogurts.
Figure 4.39. Siggi’s strawberry yogurt and Nutrition Facts.
In the siggi’s strawberry yogurt, a 5.3 oz (150g) serving has 11 grams of total sugar and 7
grams of added sugar. This is a combination of naturally-occurring sugar from the milk and
strawberries and added sugar from the cane sugar. However, this product only has 7 grams
of added sugar (just under 2 teaspoons), which is a lot less than the strawberry Greek yogurt