Stonyfield’s Organic Chocolate Underground yogurt cups are fat-free, which might get you to snatch them off the shelf. Who wouldn’t want fat-free chocolate? A 150-gram tub (about 5 ounces) of this yogurt is just 110 calories and not a trace of fat or cholesterol. It’s also low in sodium and provides 200 milligrams of calcium.
Fat-free food isn’t as healthy as you think because the fat is replaced by added sugar. Sure enough, Stonyfield’s fat-free chocolate yogurt has 13 grams of added sugar. The American Heart Association suggests keeping your added sugars to less than 6% of your daily calories. If you’re keeping your calorie intake to 1,800 calories, that’s just 27 grams of added sugar. A serving of Stonyfield’s chocolate yogurt will put you at almost half your limit of added sugar for the day.
Because this yogurt has no fat and less than a gram of fiber, you might not feel very full. Fat, fiber, and protein help keep you satisfied so you’re not reaching for another snack an hour later. This yogurt has 6 grams of protein, which might help fill you up. However, dieticians at Cedars Sinai say that the amount of protein should exceed the amount of added sugar for a food to be healthy.