Low fat hidden facts
Low Fat products have been drummed into us and in our faces for a decades, but the hidden facts are out there now as to why we should stay away from them. The amount of sugar defeats the theory of this product being good for you.
On our supermarket shelves we have an option of full cream or traditional style to low fat – fat free style.
So like myself I always chose the low fat as this is what will help us to lose weight right? So wrong, the hidden sugars in these products are ridiculous, and so wrong in so many ways.
This type of yogurt is a common brand and I have listed some reasons why you need to look at not only the nutritional values, but also the ingredients list.
one on the left – low fat nutritional label, one on the right – traditional nutritional label
| product | Fat per 100gm | Sugar per 100gm | Sugar per serve 170gm | ingredients |
| Full cream | 4.0 | 2.7 | 4.9 | Skim milk, cream (good fats), live yogurt cultures (probotics good for gut) |
| Low fat | 0.2 | 3.3 | 6.0 | Skim milk, live yogurt cultures |
| Flavoured | 0.2 | 9.5 | 16.2 | Skim milk, sugar, water, raspberries, vegetable gums, flavours, carrot juice concentrate, milk |
Every item I have highlighted contains sugar, so skim milk has sugar already in it. If you note the flavoured yogurt, all the ingredients contain their own sugar, expect the water.
The flavoured yogurt is packaged as a serving, it highlights that it has less than 0.5% fat, but we need good fats within the cream. Packaged like this you would have the entire tub in one serve most likely and in that case you are having 16.2gm sugar = 4 teaspoons of sugar.
I would recommend you use the full cream product and add fresh fruit or frozen fruit, you then eliminate the added sugars and gums that are used to thicken the yogurt. Which would then be about 7g sugar = <2 teaspoons of sugar.
I will continue to give you more product comparison to help you become aware of what choices to make in your shopping cart.
