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We went shelf by shelf through the yoghurt aisle and checked the labels so you don't have to — seven pots, ranked safest to worst, sugar climbing every step. Starting safest: Fage Total 0% Natural Greek Yoghurt. A 170 gram pot carries around one and three-quarter teaspoons of sugar — and that's just the milk's own lactose, nothing added. Genuinely one of the safest pots on the shelf.
Next, Yeo Valley Natural Yoghurt. A typical 150 gram pot holds close to one and three-quarter teaspoons — practically neck and neck with our safe buy. Still just milk sugars, nothing hidden.
Onken Natural Biopot Yoghurt keeps the streak going — around one and nine tenths of a teaspoon in a typical 150 gram serving. Still a genuinely low-sugar choice, but the numbers are starting to creep.
Now the numbers jump. One small 100 millilitre bottle of Actimel Original Yoghurt Drink carries around two and three-quarter teaspoons of sugar — more than the three natural pots before it, in a fraction of the size.
Müllerlight Vanilla Yogurt is marketed on being low fat — but a 160 gram pot still holds close to three and three-quarter teaspoons of sugar. Low fat doesn't mean low sugar, and this pot is the proof.
Danone Oykos Salted Caramel Yogurt is built more like a dessert than a breakfast — a 150 gram pot carries close to five teaspoons of sugar. That's a genuine pudding wearing a yoghurt pot.
And the worst offender on our shelf: Müller Corner Vanilla with Choco Balls. A single 130 gram pot carries around five teaspoons of sugar — more than a chocolate biscuit, tucked inside something that still says yoghurt on the lid.
Müller Corner Vanilla with Choco Balls
That pot carries around five teaspoons of sugar — more than a chocolate biscuit, dressed as breakfast. Swap to Fage Total 0% Natural and stir in your own fruit for a fraction of the sugar. (answer generated by SugarCoach, the AI coach)
General lifestyle education, not medical advice — personal medical decisions belong with your GP or pharmacist.