Is low-fat yogurt healthy for weight loss

We love yogurts in the UK. Every year, we spend a staggering 1.7 billion on the white stuff, with more people opting for low-fat and fat-free varieties in an effort to watch their waistlines.

But are these ‘healthy’ yogurts actually helping you cut the calories?

You may be surprised…

How much sugar is in low-fat and fat-free yogurts?

Before we begin, let’s get one thing straight: any product which contains milk will have some sugar content. That’s because milk contains lactose, and lactose has naturally occurring sugars.

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As such, any yogurt has around 2 per cent sugar per 100g as its baseline. Any sugar that then gets added to the yogurt compounds on top of this 2 per cent.

Now that’s cleared up, we can take a deeper dive into the sugars in low-fat and fat-free yogurts.

Many seemingly ‘healthy’ yogurts are crammed with what are called ‘free sugars’ (this is just a fancy way of saying ‘added sugar’, of which is not contributed to by lactose).

This is because yogurt gets its gorgeous thick texture and ful