Check your strawberry or vanilla yogurt. Typical flavored yogurt contains 15-25 grams of sugar per serving—comparable to candy. Research by Mozaffarian shows yogurt’s health benefits depend on what’s added to it. Plain yogurt has 4-7 grams of natural lactose; add actual berries and you get fruit flavor, fiber, and fewer total grams of sugar. Flavored yogurt is dessert in a healthy container.
This companion covers the audit, the numbers, why flavored is worse, alternatives, and flavor adjustment. (5 min read)