Full fat yogurt

[HawkEye244]

Almost every brand of yogurt in the shops is low fat or fat free, yes zero percent fat.

What with the sugar tax in effect and fats no longer being considered unhealthy as it was thought to be for the last 30 years. Why then are a lot of the products in the shops still laden with sugar ?

I'm not talking just yougurt. Pasta sauces, Currys sauces, milk, cereal, and more, all of it laden with grams and grams of sugar. Even the few full fat yogurts I can find have sugar in them.

Discuss

 

[IWalkLikeHimaMartian]

Almost every brand of yogurt in the shops is low fat or fat free, yes zero percent fat.

What with the sugar tax in effect and fats no longer being considered unhealthy as it was thought to be for the last 30 years. Why then are a lot of the products in the shops still laden with sugar ?

I'm not talking just yougurt. Pasta sauces, Currys sauces, milk, cereal, and more, all of it laden with grams and grams of sugar. Even the few full fat yogurts I can find have sugar in them.

Discuss

More important things to do.

 

[securespark]

Just buy Greek (or Greek-style) yogurt. They now do low fat Greek (or Greek style) yogurt, so look out for the full fat variety. They don't have added sugar, just the lactose from the milk.

If you want a flavoured, sweetened yogurt just add your own.

There is hidden sugar in many things. The science behind the way our food tastes is that there are two things that carry flavour: fat and sugar. So when manufacturers take the fat out of foods (as in low fat varieties of food), they replace it with sugar. If you reduced both fat and sugar, the flavour would suffer immensely. There are of course ways to make low fat low sugar foods taste appealing, but that costs money. Sugar is relatively cheap, so is used as a replacement.

If we re-calibrate our tastebuds, we could reduce sugar even further than manufacturers are doing already. They're only doing it because of the tax. If they were doing it for the good of the customers, they'd have done it years ago.

 

[HawkEye244]

We existed for thousands of years on a diet of grains and meat. It's only now the health epidemic has gotten so bad and the evidence mounted so high that the health organisations world wide have had to admit that a low fat diet is NOT healthy. It was sugar all along.. I want full fat everything.

It is worrying just how much of the stuff we consume in this country alone and the emerging and out of control health crisis facing the country.

Wannabe, there might be more important things, but health is the foundation of a person and their mental health and wellbeing. You are short sighted in the extreme if you don't recognise diet as playing a role in it.

 

[JohnD]

Why then are a lot of the products in the shops still laden with sugar ?

because it's a cheap ingredient that consumers like the taste of.

Low cost
High sales

Big profits.

 

[sodthisforfun]

Sugar is also a preservative, a cheap one making manufactured food a lot cheaper to produce in bulk.

If we re-calibrate our tastebuds, we could reduce sugar even further than manufacturers are doing already..

Very true. Gave up all sugar for 4 months and when I finally ate some chocolate (it was Christmas!) it tasted foul. Sadly didn't take long to get back into enjoying it.

 

[big-all]

i gave up sugar in my coffee in 74 when it was rationed
stopped sugary pop about 82
a lot off things can be fully chemical with no dairy at all they will use words like "smooth strawberry flavoured desert " giving the impression off yoghurt unless it says yoghurt it probably wont be

 

[SirGalahad]

I have never bought low fat anything. I just buy normal or full fat. I don't drink any processed drinks or buy anyone processed foods. I keep my diet simple - I buy as much organic as is practical - (buying organic you have to shop more often - I hate having to pop in after work just to pick up a few items but thats the cost when items perish quicker)

If you want to lose weight and not change your diet - try intermittent fasting. You just eat all your food in an 8 hour window.

 

[Notch7]

Wannabe, there might be more important things,

He isnt interested. Theres no sugar in donkey nuts

 

[IWalkLikeHimaMartian]

Discuss

More important things to do.

Wannabe, there might be more important things, but health is the foundation of a person and their mental health and wellbeing. You are short sighted in the extreme if you don't recognise diet as playing a role in it.

More important things to do than discuss it!

 

[IWalkLikeHimaMartian]

He isnt interested. Theres no sugar in donkey nuts

So, eeyore, do tell the forum what these donkey nuts taste of.

 

[sodthisforfun]

More important things to do than discuss it!

It's probably because there's no scope in sugar in which to end up calling people racist, so therefore the subject doesn't interest him.

 

[Notch7]

Dont ask too many details about where the live yogurt bacteria culture originates

 

[Brigadier]

I have never bought low fat anything. I just buy normal or full fat.

Me neither.
Someone once said that "semi- or skimmed milk is just milk with the goodness taken out of it".

 

[HawkEye244]

Dont ask too many details about where the live yogurt bacteria culture originates

My ex-girlfriend used to make yogurt and it tasted lovely.