Non-fat vs Full Fat Plain Greek Yogurt

Plain Greek yogurt has just lactose, which is a sugar. They don't add sugar to plain Greek yogurt, just to flavored ones.

I actually also question only for myself whether full fat yogurt is more satiating or not. I suppose I believe it must be (intellectually I understand the concept), but while I can distinguish between the two side by side if asked to do so based on mouth feel, I generally eat fat free greek yogurt (fage, because I think it is the thickest with the best mouth feel) with blueberries in the morning and I am more than satisfied until lunch. When I have had low fat greek yogurt while traveling or if the store is out of my preferred0% fage and I buy the 2% I might enjoy the creaminess of the flavor a tiny bit more, but I don’t feel more full or full for longer. The protein and calorie differences are negligible. I suppose it would be different if I was moving from 0% to 5%, but then I might as well be having a bowl of ice cream for breakfast for the calorie hit. In which case the extra sugar worries from a reduced fat yogurt would be nothing to worry about!

"What I don’t understand is that I hear non-fat foods have sugars added to them for flavoring purposes"

Beware sweeping statements!!
Doesn't actually make sense from the flavour perspective either in this case as fat doesn't taste sweet.
Test "what I hear" myths by reading the label of whichever brands/foods you eat to see what they actually contain.

Taking one component out of a food does of course change the proportions of the other components that remain behind. Some of which you might see as a positive thing, some you might see as negative, many will be of trivial importance....
How significant? Again - read the label.

Heather_71 wrote: »

I understand that full fat/whole milk plain Greek yogurt is more satiating. What I don’t understand is that I hear non-fat foods have sugars added to them for flavoring purposes. Granted, plain Greek yogurt isn’t very flavorful without added fruit, but are there added sugars? I don’t see the sugar difference in the ingredients / nutrition facts so feel a bit confused. It seems to me from a sugar standpoint, they are equal with no added sugars but the whole milk version has more fat. Is this right or am I missing something about the sugars?

Not all non-fat or low fat foods have added sugar...in fact, I rarely see this, and when I do it's usually with salad dressing or something. Plain non-fat or low fat dairy products do not have added sugars. They do have more naturally occurring sugar in the form of lactose because the processing of non-fat or low fat dairy requires more of the actual dairy product to make the equivalent amount of the full fat product as the fat is skimmed away.