I can't find sour yogurt (ingredients, organic, cheap, buy)
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Every brand of plain yogurt that I have ever seen sold in any kind of store in the US has sugar-laden fruit added, added processed sugar or artificial sweetners.
Recently a major yogurt producer promoted yogurts with zero sweetners and no sugar, but all I have seen are fruit flavored, so sugar, and in significant quantity. So they are kidding.
In my experience, the Fage brand, plain flavor, has the least amount of sugar, around 3-5 grams per serving, but still noticeable, and I believe it is not really Greek, like most so-called Greek-style yogurts, but made in the US, and the difference is palatable.
I have even tried Whole Foods and local so-called Greek/Middle Eastern stores, but to no avail. Even Kefir sold in every kind of store I have seen contains sugar in what to me are intrusive amounts, sometimes even in what I consider obscene amounts.
Has any one seen or heard of completely sugarless, plain, naturally sour yogurt available for purchase in the US? If so, where?
I find this brand to be quite tart. They sell it at whole foods. It's not cheap,but sometimes it's in sale for $1. I have never been brave enough to try the plain because the flavored ones are so tart.
Yogurt is going to have some sugar because it's made out of milk, which has some sugar in it. You can't make yogurt that has no sugar at all. When you make your own, you won't know exactly how much of the sugar in the milk is still present after the yogurt is cultured. If you strain the yogurt (to make Greek yogurt) more of the sugar is removed, but again, you don't know how much.
Anyhow, to make your own yogurt, start with a gallon of milk. Heat to 180, cool to 115. Stir in 1/2 cup plain store-bought yogurt. (You can add 4 cups of powdered milk too if you want a thicker yogurt with more protein). Pour into jars, place in oven with the oven light on but the oven turned off. Leave it in the oven for 8 to 12 hours, then cool and refrigerate. You can strain the yogurt at that point if you want to...line a strainer with a couple layers of cheesecloth, put it over a bowl, and put the yogurt in the strainer. Put it in the fridge overnight and you'll have unsweetened Greek yogurt...which will still contain some naturally occurring sugar.
Those yogurts with zero sweeteners and no added sugar had zero artificial sweeteners and no added sugar, so they had the sugar that occurs naturally in the milk and the small amount of sugar from the fruit. They were sweetened with stevia. I think there were 8 or 10 carbs in one serving, don't remember the exact amount but it wasn't significantly lower than the 80 calorie fruit-on-the-bottom Greek yogurts that I usually buy when I'm too lazy to make my own yogurt.
I see that Siggi's plain yogurt has 4 grams of sugar, so about the same as Fage.
I'll try to make my own, as Hedgehog Mom suggests.
In Greece, there is a store-bought brand called Dodoni, that's the taste I am looking for, not available in the US but even if it were produced here, they would probably add sweetners of some kind, natural or not, in accordance with national taste preferences (or perhaps social training?).
I remember once in a small village some people coming around selling fresh yogurt, and accompanying them was the actual cow from which they had made it.
There are theories that the yogurt cultures destroy nearly all of the lactose (since that's what they eat) and so carb counts are lower than indicated on the label. I don't know if/how much that's been tested.
When you make your own yogurt, longer times will make more "sour" yogurt. A commercial level tartness, in my experience, is about six hours. Eight to twelve hours will be much more tart. I used to strain mine in a cotton bag when I made my own Greek yogurt or yogurt cheese. I hung it in the tub.
Nancy's, Fred Meyer. Seeing sugar on the nutrition label does not always mean added sugar, often it is lactose, which is a sugar that is accounted for on the label. Reading the ingredients will indicate whether there is added sugar or naturally occurring sugar, such as lactose content.
Off the top of my head, I cannot think of any food that does not have a naturally present amount of some type of sugar present at some level in its natural unprocessed state. Even raw broccoli has sugar.
Every brand of plain yogurt that I have ever seen sold in any kind of store in the US has sugar-laden fruit added, added processed sugar or artificial sweetners.
Recently a major yogurt producer promoted yogurts with zero sweetners and no sugar, but all I have seen are fruit flavored, so sugar, and in significant quantity. So they are kidding.
In my experience, the Fage brand, plain flavor, has the least amount of sugar, around 3-5 grams per serving, but still noticeable, and I believe it is not really Greek, like most so-called Greek-style yogurts, but made in the US, and the difference is palatable.
I have even tried Whole Foods and local so-called Greek/Middle Eastern stores, but to no avail. Even Kefir sold in every kind of store I have seen contains sugar in what to me are intrusive amounts, sometimes even in what I consider obscene amounts.
Has any one seen or heard of completely sugarless, plain, naturally sour yogurt available for purchase in the US? If so, where?
If not, any guide on how to make it myself?
Thank you.
Um, in every supermarket? I regularly buy three different brands, all with only milk and cultures in them. Maybe you should not buy a tub of yoghurt called "Strawberry Banana Vanilla delight" with a picture of a strawberry on the front if you're looking for plain yoghurt? Look at the front, it should say "Plain" (not vanilla, vanilla is a flavour). Then look at the ingredients. Low fat yoghurts often have stabilisers, but I've not ever in the US seen a plain yoghurt with sugar added. If they were adding sugar and not declaring it on the label they would be in so much trouble with the FDA you can't even imagine. Brands include Stoneyfield, Fage, Organic Valley.
If you read the INGREDIENT list of many plain yogurts, you will see "cultured grade A milk" and "live cultures". Maybe some pectin, depending on the brand. If you read the NUTRITION label, you will see sugar listed. That sugar is naturally occurring lactose, which is present in all milk.
It's not at all hard to find plain yogurt, if that's what you're looking for.
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