Eating yogurt seems to be the health choice par excellence. However, the UFC-Que-Choice association has analyzed the composition of 30 references sold in supermarket, from Greek yogurt to Petit-Suisse via the white cheese and Skyr. Their study reveals large differences in calcium, protein and especially in fats, with certain varieties which prove to be much less light than you might think.
Sheep’s milk yogurt, calcium champion
The study recalls that hard cheeses like Emmental remain the champions of calcium. But on the side of fresh dairy products, yogurt and breed milk cheese are pulling their game, just like enriched cow’s cow cheese. Conversely, classic cow’s white cheese or skyr, drained and rid of its whey, proved to be much less with calcium. The faisses, sold with their whey, are also interesting for this mineral contribution.
Proteins, should you really count on your yogurt?
Skyr is often presented as sports yogurt, praising its high protein levels. But the analysis tempers this argument: “If you benefit from a balanced diet, you do not need to increase your contribution by your yogurts“. White cheeses and Skyr can actually provide proteins, but most French people do not need to look more via dairy products. As for the appetite suppressant effect, it remains to be demonstrated.
Le Petit-Suisse, false ally and true fat concentrate
It is on the issue of fat that differences are mostly widening. UFC-Que Choisir speaks of “big gap“Between the products. At least fatty to the richest, we first find the 0 %yogurts, then the lightened skyr, the partially skimmed cow yogurts, the cow’s cow yogurts and sheep, followed by the goat yogurt with whole milk. At the very top of the ranking appears the white sheep cheese, the white goat cheese, and especially the little-Swiss.Endless elbow with Greek yogurts with 10% fat. A portion of these products brings as many fats as 2 slices of camemberts and contains up to three times the calories of a partially skimmed cow yogurt“. On average, we reach 140 calories per 100 grams of small-Swiss, while being among the poorest in calcium. Finally, the association recalls that this product is also a bad student in an ecological level, sold in”tiny plastic boxes that create a lot of waste“.