Yogurt is chock-full of probiotics, active cultures, and essential nutrients like calcium and vitamin D. Adding yogurt to a healthy diet can reduce vaginal yeast infections, boost the immune system, and may even help with inflammatory bowel disease.1 But there’s a dark side to this tasty treat. Yogurt is often packed with more sugars than a candy bar.
Need proof? A Snickers bar has 20 grams of sugar. A cup of Yoplait yogurt has 26 grams. That’s more than the daily maximum amount that a woman should eat in a day. (Women should consume no more than 25 grams in a day, and 32 grams for men.)
Yooga’s New Approach
Meet Yooga. The Colorado-based company is providing a new approach to yogurt that packs a healthy punch without a load of sugar. Their plant-based yogurt cups have only 6 grams of sugar and come in five different flavors: blueberry, sea salt chocolate, strawberry, turmeric golden milk, and vanilla bean.
Their spunky, colorful website provides a chart on the nutrition content of Yooga versus competing brands. They pride themselves on being soy and dairy free, gluten-free, organic, and non-GMO. Their product boasts plant-based Omega 3s, and heart-healthy MCT’s.
But what’s in the stuff? According to their website, Yooga yogurts are made from “creamy coconut, finely-milled chia, and powerful probiotics.” They describe their yogurt as “superfood cups”, which means all the goodness of yogurt, without the unhealthy additives.2
Good News in a Health Crisis
Yooga’s products hit stores this spring/early summer. This is good news for health-conscious yogurt lovers, who have had to limit themselves to plain Greek yogurt in the interest of avoiding added sugars. In the light of expanding waistlines, rising cases of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, fatty liver disease, metabolic diseases, and cancer, Americans are getting serious about kicking their sugar habit.
The American Heart Association3 calls for no more than 9.5 teaspoons of sugar per day, but the average adult consumes 22 teaspoons per day. Even more alarming, the average child consumes 32 teaspoons per day. Added sugar alone accounts for nearly 500 calories of our daily diets. All this refined sugar contributes to high blood pressure, depression, hypertension, fatigue, diabetes, acne, skin irritation, stiff arteries, and hypoglycemia.4
So the next time you shop for yogurt, take a look at the nutrition panel. Most companies load up on the sugar to make the product taste sweeter, but this comes at the steep cost of 12 extra teaspoons of the sweet stuff. This summer, look for Yooga in the yogurt aisle.
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The content on this website should not be taken as medical advice and you should ALWAYS consult with your doctor before starting any diet or exercise program. We provide nutritional data for our recipes as a courtesy to our readers. We use Total Keto Diet app software to calculate the nutrition and we remove fiber and sugar alcohols, like erythritol, from the total carbohydrate count to get to the net carb count, as they do not affect your blood glucose levels. You should independently calculate nutritional information on your own and not rely on our data. The website or content herein is not intended to cure, prevent, diagnose or treat any disease. This website shall not be liable for adverse reactions or any other outcome resulting from the use of recipes or recommendations on the Website or actions you take as a result. Any action you take is strictly at your own risk.
Dr. Rosmy Barrios, MD is an aesthetic medicine specialist whose work focuses on patients who are treated for obesity, metabolic syndrome, and other weight-related issues through nutritional analysis, keto diet programs, and supporting medications.
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