Just started eating clean, is this a clean food?

claudiaclark73
claudiaclark73 Posts: 5 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Yoplait Light w/Granola. It's 190 calories with the granola. I really love it, but not sure if it's considered a clean food. I've read some posts about yoplait in general not being the best option. What are some other clean alternatives to yogurt w/granola? Aside from making my own from scratch that is :)

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  • jacksonpt
    jacksonpt Posts: 10,413 Member
    "Clean" has different meanings to different people. If it fits within your health/nutritional/fitness goals, then yes, it's probably fine.
  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,210 Member
    There's no clear definition. If you like yogurt, eat it. Personally I like a full fat, 7 or 8% and a lot of people would never ever considering eating yogurt with that much fat and would never consider that clean.
  • melsinct
    melsinct Posts: 3,512 Member
    "Clean" has different meanings to different people. If it fits within your health/nutritional/fitness goals, then yes, it's probably fine.

    Agreed.

    Clean to me would definitely exclude Yoplait Light, as I believe it contains high fructose corn syrup and a bunch of thickeners, "natural flavors" that aren't so natural, and additives. "Clean" to me means real food without a long ingredient list. Plain real cultured yogurt (ingredients: Milk, Live Cultures), vegetables, fruits, meats, etc. I also would include real granola (ingredients: oats, nuts/seeds, honey, and some sort of fat (oil or butter).
  • claudiaclark73
    claudiaclark73 Posts: 5 Member
    Very helpful, thank you!
  • Micahroni84
    Micahroni84 Posts: 452 Member
    Clean eating is typically whole and organic foods with limited processing. If you cant prounounce the ingredients or there is more than five its probably not a "clean" food. Reduced fat and light foods are especially not clean because of the lab created sugars or subsitutes they put in them. But if it is a better choice than what you would have otherwise made it is defintely in the right direction!
  • benflando
    benflando Posts: 193
    A lot of sugars.
    I choose foods much more for calories that count.
  • concordancia
    concordancia Posts: 5,320 Member
    "Clean" has different meanings to different people. If it fits within your health/nutritional/fitness goals, then yes, it's probably fine.

    Agreed.

    Clean to me would definitely exclude Yoplait Light, as I believe it contains high fructose corn syrup and a bunch of thickeners, "natural flavors" that aren't so natural, and additives. "Clean" to me means real food without a long ingredient list. Plain real cultured yogurt (ingredients: Milk, Live Cultures), vegetables, fruits, meats, etc. I also would include real granola (ingredients: oats, nuts/seeds, honey, and some sort of fat (oil or butter).

    This is how I see it, as well. But there are no clean eating police, no matter what the next poster claims.
  • SideSteel
    SideSteel Posts: 11,068 Member
    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/822501-halp-my-sandwich-isn-t-clean
  • usmcmp
    usmcmp Posts: 21,219 Member
    One definition for clean I like is that if it has an ingredient list it isn't clean. I don't follow "clean" eating though.
  • JustJennie1
    JustJennie1 Posts: 3,749 Member
    Yoplait Light w/Granola. It's 190 calories with the granola. I really love it, but not sure if it's considered a clean food. I've read some posts about yoplait in general not being the best option. What are some other clean alternatives to yogurt w/granola? Aside from making my own from scratch that is :)

    Plain, no fat Greek yogurt and add your own fruit/honey/etc. to it.

    As for making granola it's super easy. I have a recipe that I use and tweaked and I make it a few times a month. PM me if you want it. :)
  • BusyRaeNOTBusty
    BusyRaeNOTBusty Posts: 7,166 Member
    I don't believe in eating clean but I hear making yogurt is really easy but I've never tried it myself.
  • ArroganceInStep
    ArroganceInStep Posts: 6,239 Member
    Lye is a cleaning agent.
  • shellbatronic
    shellbatronic Posts: 193
    Greek yogurt is really a better alternative. In a perfect world, the ingredients in yogurt would be, well.. yogurt. Milk, cultures, and maybe "natural flavoring" if it's a mass produced flavor one.

    "Light Yoplait" yogurt ingredients: Cultured Pasteurized Grade A Nonfat Milk, (fruit if it's a fruit flavor), Sugar, Modified Corn Starch, Corn Starch, Kosher Gelatin, Natural and Artificial Flavor, Lemon Juice Concentrate, Sucralose, Fruit and Vegetable Juice (for color), Acefulfame Potassium, Vitamin A Acetate, Vitamin D(3).

    That's just the yogurt, not including the yogurt that contains corn syrup, canola oil, and soy lecithin among the other more expected "granola-y" stuff.

    Check that out- that yogurt (not including granola) has 15 ingredients, at least 2 of which are corn, 2 different artificial sweeteners, and added thickeners. "Real" yogurt is Milk, and cultures.

    I submit you try plain greek yogurt, add some honey or splenda to it (still an artificial sweetener, yes, but much less bad on the sliding scale haha), and then add your own fruit and granola, or fruit and almonds or even walnuts. Yoplait is a science project.

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