Go-Gurt Ingredients: More Sugar than Coca-Cola
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Go-Gurt: A Healthy Treat?
I was at the grocery store recently, and I started looking at mother nature's perfect food "Go-Gurt". I'm assuming that the name means yogurt for people on the go. Yoplait makes it, and Go-Gurt primarily marketed to kids.
Clever or Deceptive?
First of all, in the ingredients list at the bottom, see how sugar isn't the first ingredient? Well, an unsuspecting parent may think of that as a good thing, but they cleverly used two different sweeteners. If they'd only used one sweetner though, sugar be the first ingredient. Clever huh.
More Sugar than Coca-Cola
With regards to sugars. Coca-Cola has 3.25 grams of sugars per ounce. Go-Gurt has 4.89 grams of sugars per ounce.
Go-Gurt Ingredients
I thought I'd post these because they seem hard to find on the internet. Yoplait didn't make them very easy to find on their site.
- Cultured Pasteurized Grade A Milk
- Sugar
- Nonfat Milk
- High Fructose Corn Syrup
- Modified Corn Starch
- Kosher Gelatin
- Tricalcium Phosphate
- Potassium Sorbate (preservative)
- Carrageenan
- Natural And Artificial Flavor
- Carmine (a food additive for coloring, to make it you have to boil dried insects in water to extract the carminic acid)
- Yoplait's Go-Gurt Website
Official website for Go-Gurt. - How Much Sugar Does Coca-Cola Have Per Can?
- Information About the Food Additive Carmine
Wikipedia has an interesting article about the food additive, generally used as a coloring. That's how Go-Gurt gets its coloring.
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Is a per ounce comparison on sugar relevant? How many times do you sit down and have a 2.25 ounce glass of Coca-Cola?
Yoplait ought to be ashamed of themselves... though most of the food manufacturers out there really should. My daughter may have ADHD and I've read that they need protein to help focus, I've been sending her to school w/ a go-gurt every day for snack time. Yes, I was fully aware that's probably not the best choice, prior to reading this site. It's so difficult for families with low-income to properly feed their children without getting a part-time job!!!
http://www.yoplait.com.au/multipacks.aspx?ID=1092
I see no HFCS in the list of ingredients.....
to Joshiesmommie,
Interesting......I was at the store today, and I checked gogurt, because I am using this topic in my class, and I wanted to be sure. HFCS was listed as above. I wonder what this is all about? location? maybe there are different styles and flavors with different ingredients.......
Regular Yoplait yogurt has both HFCS and sugar in it as well. GoGurt is no different then their regular yogurt in this way.
to Joshiesmommie,
The site you reference is Australian. The product is not the same in the U.S.
The insects are boiled.. lol disinfected no worries!! haha
Facebook me- I would take the insects over the HFCS my son has ADHD - ITS NOT FAIR COMPANIES TARGET KIDS LUNCHES -NOT FAIR TO THERE GROWING DEVELOPING BODIES- TYPE 2 DIABETES ALSO DUE TO HORMONE & ANTIBIOTIC OUT BREAK IN OUR MEAT,EGGS & MILK PRODUCTS MODY(Maturity Onset Diabetes in Youngsters) & of course Happy Meals have Sooo many corn additives its a wonder - WHY? Now that facts have come to light- I FEEL FAST FOOD SHOULD NOT TARGET KIDS - age limit to who can go into fast food restaurants (16 & older)So if lazy parents choose to give it to there kids all the time, they can if they want. We need more clear choices- for our kids! Watch Food Inc. King Corn & Super Size Me~ to start Educating yourself! Take Care Everyone! =)
Brilliant - thanks for this informative article.
I just bought Go-gurt for myself and checked for High Fructose Corn Syrup specifically. The store brand version of Go-gurt had HFCS, but Yoplait's Go-gurt didn't. I wonder if they've taken out the HFCS in the two years since this post was published.
sabrina sutton 2 years ago
Did I win.