Yogurt - is it really worth it?

I like yogurt, and provided it's not a brand that's too high in sugar, I always considered it a relatively healthy/nutritious food (compared to say, chips or candy and so on).

With this in mind, I just created an item in the food log for the 2% milkfat greek yogurt I ate this afternoon, and.... it got a D+! That seems awfully harsh. Is it the sugar (17g)? Or the fat (2.5g)? I'm guessing it has to be the sugar that drops the rating. BUT.. I imagined this would be offset at least a little by a 10% DV of Calcium, and 10g of protein. Apparently not.

So what's the consensus. Should I just give up on yoghurt entirely? (And please don't suggest plain yogurt, blurgh !)

If it's not putting you over your daily allowance of sugar when combined with the rest of your diet, then who cares? It would be silly to give up a relatively decent food you love only to replace it with something worse (or be miserable).

I would put very little stock in the "grade" given by CC anyway, seriously.

Yeah, I don't generally pay too much attention to the grade. But I so rarely see a 'D', that when I do, I feel kind of sad about it - like I did something wrong, hee. It's like being back at school :)

Are you sure you didn't mix up the sugar/protein contents?

My Fage 2% has 8g sugar and 17g protein. I know its a different brand, but there shouldn't be so much disparity between the two. Even regular plain yogurt only has 11g sugar - and Greek yogurt generally has less.

I only ask because filling out the form for CC food logger sometimes messes me up - the label's order don't always seem to match with CC's way of ordering nutrients.

The CC grades are weird. For example I was putting in a recipe for rice pudding and the nutrition grade went down when I cut the honey by half. Less sugar brings down a nutrition grade?

And yogurt is awesome. If you have room for it, eat it!

The individual food grades are less important than the overall result.  A low grade doesn't mean 'this food is unhealthy' it means 'eat this food in smaller amounts'.  Which is sensible.   If you're eating lots of A & B grade vegetables, fruits, grains and other foods, you're fine.

Like gi-jane says, it's the overall result.  Even a "bad" grade day isn't anything to lose any sleep over if it happens only once in a while.  I still eat butter (grade F!) but only within my overall limits and only in small quantities. 

Yogurt is a miracle food, as far as I am concerned, and what about all those 100+ year old healthy people in the middle east whose main protein comes from yogurt?  Making yogurt is also very easy.  Greek yogurt is just plain yogurt that has been strained through a cloth to seperate out some of the liquid (whey), which thickens the yogurt and makes even skim yogurt as creamy as full fat!  You can do this with any store bought yogurt or homemade.  Then you can add whatever sweetner you want and in whatever quantity.  I sometimes add vanilla or powdered chocolate.  Many good recipes through Google. 

IMHO, plain yogurt mixed with a little honey and cinnamon or vanilla is WAY tastier than those fakey sugary flavoured ones. And a teaspoon of honey only adds 20 calories.

Wow! I love yogurt and the ones I eat got B+/A!

125 grams of them have:

- between 7 and 8 grams sugar

- between 0 and 2 grams fat

- 25% to 30% Calcium DV plus 18% phosphorus or vitamin B12

- aproximately 8 to 9 grams protein

I happen to be a big fan of plain yogurt (I would suggest Stonyfield Farms' lowfat or fat free--they're surprisingly creamy and mild for plain yogurt, and very high in protein and calcium), into which you can mix everything from honey and sliced almonds or walnuts (for a good-fat/protein/fiber boost) to fresh or frozen fruit or even fruit preserves for minimal sugar and calories (especially if you use all-fruit preserves or fresh seasonal fruit). It's often easier to get a good nutritional grade if you mix up your yogurt combinations yourself rather than leaving it to big commercial companies. I've even gotten into making my own yogurt, which has the same nutritional content as the skim milk I use to make it (an A grade with high protein and minimal sugar and fat) and saves rather a lot of money on packaging in the long run. You can even make your own thick Greek-style yogurt by straining your favorite regular yogurt (this works best with a less-processed and less-sweetened brand) through a cheesecloth overnight. However, if these suggestions are not to your taste and you like the yogurt you've found, I usually take the CC grades with a grain of salt. I've been pretty surprised at some of the grades CC gives to my personally-entered foods and I usually end up paying more attention to the number of ingredients and amount of processing to tell me how healthy a food is. So especially if your overall grade stays good, I wouldn't worry about it at all. Also, I just want to add that I think yogurt just may be the perfect food, and it's a great addition to any diet, weight-loss or otherwise. :)

If you go to the food browser on CC and type in "yogurt," there are a ton of healthy (flavored!) yogurts in the database.

My personal favorite yogurt is not in the database: Breyer's YoCrunch 100 Calorie yogurts. They come with this little pot of yogurt (flavored, of course - I'm like you on that one) and something to mix in it. I love both of the ones that I've tried - the strawberry yogurt (it even has actual strawberry pieces in it - yum!) with granola and the vanilla yogurt with little chocolate Nestle's Crunch pieces to stir in it. I eat these like crazy, and just one yogurt fills you up for hours to come - even in their small little size. The other flavors look yummy, too. I'll have to try them one day soon.

I think I'm going to go have a yogurt now... ;)