Adding more plant-based foods into our diets is a really good thing, but not when they’re essentially candy in disguise. Before you jump to buy one of the every-growing array of plant-based yogurts on shelves, check out Molly’s rundown of the best and worst options, including several with nearly a full day’s worth of added sugar in a single carton.
LOVE IT!
Kite Hill – Vanilla + Plain UNSWEETENED Almond Milk Greek Style Yogurt
- 160 calories, 10 grams fat, 8 grams carb, 4 grams fiber, 2 grams sugar (0 added sugar), 10 grams protein
- Ingredients include almond milk (water + almonds), live active cultures, and thickeners + stabilizers including tapioca starch, pectin, locust bean gum, and agar.
LIKE IT!
CocoYo by GT’s | low protein but also very low in sugar
- Per ½ cup: 110 calories, 8 grams fat, 6 grams carb, 0 fiber, 1 gram sugar, 1 gram protein
- Ingredients include raw young coconut + coconut water, probiotic cultures & stevia
Siggi’s Coconut Blend Yogurt| more protein than sugar
- 190 calories, 11 grams fat, 13 grams carb, 1 gram fiber, 9 grams sugar (8 added sugar), 10 grams protein
- Ingredients include coconut milk, pea protein, cane sugar, coconut oil, macadamia nuts, pectin, live active cultures
HATE IT!
All have at least 4x more sugar than protein.
Kite Hill Almond Milk Yogurt – flavored
- 170 calories, 9 grams fat, 22 grams carb, 2 grams fiber, 18 grams sugar (17 added sugar), 4 grams protein
- Ingredients include almond milk, cane sugar, live active cultures, and thickeners + stabilizers including including tapioca starch, locust bean gum, xanthan gum, agar
Trader Joe’s Organic Creamy Cashew Yogurt Alternative
- 140 calories, 6 grams fat, 20 grams carb, <1 gram fiber, 13 grams sugar (12 added sugar), 3 grams protein.
- Ingredients include water, cashews, organic cane sugar, live active cultures, coconut cream, thickeners + stabilizers including tapioca starch, locust bean gum, pectin.
So Delicious Coconut Milk Yogurt Alternative
- 130 calories, 4 grams fat, 22 grams carb, 2 grams fiber, 15 grams sugar (all of it added sugar), 0 protein
- Ingredients include coconut milk, cane sugar, live active cultures, thickeners + stabilizers including rice starch, locust bean gum and pectin.
Silk Soymilk Yogurt Alternative
- 140 calories, 21 grams carb, 2 grams fiber, 16 gram sugar (all of it added sugar), 6 grams protein
- Ingredients include soymilk, cane sugar, live active cultures, thickeners + stabilizers including corn starch and pectin
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