Consumer Reports - Whole Foods Greek Yogurt Sugar Content

MRuwe

This is very interesting to me as I track my sugar intake carefully. I do hope Whole Foods follows up on this:

http://consumerreports.org/cro/news/2014/07/a-whole-foods-365-greek-yogurt-has-five-times-more-sugar-than-its-nutrition-label-shows/index.htm

lemurcat12

Wacky. I'm curious what the explanation is (WF looks pretty bad or stupid), but in that it's lactose the label was pretty obviously wrong. I looked in the database here, and at least some of the 365 plains have appropriate sugar numbers, which makes me wonder if it's a recent change or if it's only certain fat contents that got the numbers that are off.

If you track sugar carefully, though, you should know that any real yogurt is going to have a substantial sugar content, because milk.

echofm1

Huh. That is weird. I agree with lemurcat, that the label was probably misprinted. Because even if they don't add any sugar to it, lactose counts under a nutrition label's sugar. Any yogurt, and particularly Greek yogurt because of its density, should be pretty high in sugar. Definitely not 2g.

nicsflyingcircus

Yeah, that's just wrong. I eat 2% greek yogurt, and it's I believe 7g sugar per 6oz serving. Obviously fat free would have more.

Francl27

Well the carb number is right, hopefully people figured out that 2g of sugar wasn't right... lol.

beertrollruss

After reading the article, I'm thinking the person in charge of the label could have typed the wrong number. It's good to see a group like Consumer Reports catch this mistake. I hope no diabetics were harmed by this error.