Calculating calories in homemade Greek/strained yogurt

Since it's homemade, did you try making a recipe under the food tab? You can add all the ingredients you used and it will calculate for you.

That won't help her with the removal part of the process...I'd say just treat it as normal 1% strained yogurt by the ounce. If you think you're being thorough. Or you can weigh the whey that gets strained off and subtract that from the nutrients of regular 1% yogurt.

Yogurt is very easy to make - I use 'Euro Cuisine Automatic Yogurt Maker' - you can find it on Amazon, this company also has a good culture.

I have access to a family farm so I can get real, whole, raw milk. I was wondering how to count the calories also.

I'm having the same issue. We made yogurt in the crockpot with whole milk (only bc we feared anything less wouldn't be thick enough, as store bought yogurt is made with whole milk) & used a greek yogurt starter. & we still had a lot to strain off of it. So much so that it took several hours to strain completely. I haven't the slightest clue on how to figure my calories. I'd really like to know bc it's one of my favorite snacks.

No, it isn't right: whey drained off has protein and sugars itself. It is not just water.

Ok, I did this myself just yesterday!

It is very confusing, but will be worth it.

Calculate total calories and macros in the tub of yogurt you used based on the label and the weight it says on the packaging, and figure out how many servings you get out of one package. I got 11.5 out of mine, based on the serving size the label suggested.

Get the nutritional info for liquid whey. I got it from self nutrition data, the non sweetened one. Measure out how much total liquid whey you have left over in cups, and multiply by quantity that is given on the website (I believe if you go with the one I used, it is per 1 cup. I got 2.5 cups out of mine, so that would be for instance 53.5 calories x 2.5 cups, and do this with all the macros you want to track).

Subtract calories and macros you calculated above for whey from your original yogurt calculations. Then devide the totals by how many servings you get out of a tub.

Measure out how much strained yogurt you have total, and devide that by how many servings you get out of the original tub, this will give you the amout that one serving is. My original yogurt was a 175g serving, after I strained it, it was 74g

I hope this all made sense.

I make 2% yogurt in the crockpot and it comes out thick and creamy. I use Fage 2% plain on my diary. i know its not exact but i kinow its close so it works for me.

I do this, except I use Chobani for my diary entry. Meh, it's close enough.

Bumping, as I am considering purchasing a yogurt maker. (I eat so much yogurt, and I'm curious about making it at home.) I was wondering how to calculate the calorie and macro content of a homemade yogurt.

Thank you to elitegifts200 for doing the legwork on the process for determining the calculation.

Bumping for later use

shall724 wrote: »

So after searching and searching for a way to caculate my calories for my homeade greek yogurt...with no luck. finally came up with this and I think its got to be pretty close!

I add up my total calories that I start with.
example: one gallon 1% milk. 16 servings x 110 per serving = 1760.
one small container fat free plain greek yogurt = 100

total start= 1860

after the process/ straining whey. measure the whey that is discarded. I strained about 8 cups of whey from my yogurt.

whey is 59 cal. per cup x my 8 cups = 472

take your beginning calories 1860 - 472 for the discarded whey= 1388 caloeies left

now, there is 1388 calories in your batch of greek yogurt.

I divided my batch into one cup servings and I had about 9 cups so divide calories!

1388/9= 154 calories per cup! if course everyones will vary depending on what type if milk you start with and how long you drain it...but its pretty easy to calculate

I followed This exactly for my 1% homemade Greek yogurt that I've been making for almost 2 years now. I get about 6 6ounce portions from my batch (using 7.5 cups 1% milk and a couple of ounces of starter from my previous batch). It only comes out to about 2.8 g fat and 41 calories per serving. Nuts!