Priorities, people. Do you eat plain yogurt? Share your comments on the Sweet Spot Nutrition Facebook page. You'll also sign up for my sweet spot eating tip of the week.
You can unsubscribe anytime. Trust me, I hate spam too. Contact me. Share this on: Facebook. I need that! Light yogurts typically add low-calorie sweeteners to cut the calories and sugar grams per 6 oz.
These can include Stevia, Aspartame, or Erythritol. Most flavored yogurts are around calories and only grams of protein. Thicker Greek yogurt contains around calories and 12 grams of protein per 5. While light or nonfat yogurt varieties have significantly reduced calorie counts around 90 , many contain artificial thickeners and sweeteners.
So for many of these reasons, our family has made the switch entirely to plain yogurt. At first, I felt like I was eating bowls of sour cream. Where are my 34 grams of sugar? Now I find that I prefer the tangy taste of plain yogurt. It satisfies my hunger instead of my sweet tooth. Flavored yogurt actually tastes overpoweringly sweet to me now. Start spinning those cartons around and look for yogurt that is low in sugar, high in protein, and short on ingredients.
Take the plunge into plain yogurt! You really can train your body to crave and enjoy less sugar. Ease into it by adding things like chopped fruit, a drizzle of honey or maple syrup, or a scoop of Maple Cluster Granola. The often more expensive yogurt varieties come packaged in smaller oz.
Follow our step-by-step guide to making your own yogurt here. This post may contain affiliate links. See the disclosure policy for more information. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. You can also subscribe without commenting. My question is-do all yogurts have the bacteria in them? Heat kills active cultures.
Also worth noting that "vanilla" yogurt, like all flavoured yogurts, is nearly always sweetened with added sugar in addition to being flavoured with vanilla bean real or artificial. Show 13 more comments. With yogourt, vanilla is referring to the noun , as described by Merriam-Webster: 1 b : a commercially important extract of the vanilla bean that is used especially as a flavoring.
Jason Bassford Jason Bassford Well someone changed the title. I think I know what's the difference in taste because I bought both. But I'm still curious why vanilla is made a synonym for plain even though they taste differently, like, where does this sort of thing originate from?
Cyker When it comes to yogourt specifically, vanilla is not a synonym for plain. Vanilla refers to the vanilla bean, a specific thing. This is similar to having orange-flavoured food even though "orange" is also a colour. Different words have different meanings and contexts. I'd go a little further: vanilla is hardly ever a synonym for plain in the context of food. It's the default for ice cream, and plain biscuits often have a little vanilla but aren't strongly flavoured.
Actually if you look further down that page on the Merrian Webster site the first definition of vanilla when used as an adjective is "flavored with vanilla". It's an idiom meaning "the most common variety".
The whole definition is: vanilla adjective Definition of vanilla 1 : flavored with vanilla 2 : lacking distinction : plain, ordinary, conventional In the case of Yogurt, the first is in use. Though I think it is worth noting that both terms are Britishisms. In that case, and thinking back to my Scottish schooldays, the phrase really should not be being used to mean ordinary. As places you only visited if you really had to go, there was absolutely nothing plain and ordinary about the bogs in my school.
Please note that to someone who doesn't know what the word "vanilla" means, the first sentence on the Merriam Webster site doesn't really look like a definition! MrLister, Ha! Didn't even notice that. But you're right. It's perfectly possible for someone to come away thinking that vanilla yogurt is flavored with "any of a genus Vanilla of tropical American climbing epiphytic orchids". I can't imagine that tastes very pleasant. Does this mean it's safe to substitute vanilla for plain as long as there isn't a flavor thing?
I still don't understand why vanilla would mean unembellished since embellishment basically means adding something. If you taste both yogurts you know the vanilla edition has something added so it's not really plain. It's just a matter of history--nobody sells "plain" ice cream. The closest you can get is vanilla-flavored, which is a mild, inoffensive flavor to most people. And ice creams of other flavors often add vanilla as well.
It's just become part of the standard, common way ice cream is made, so in that context "vanilla" means "nothing added", and has come to mean that metaphorically elsewhere. But in foods, I would always assume "vanilla" means "vanilla flavoring added"--like vanilla coke, vanilla youghurt.
LeeDanielCrocker Lots of small ice cream companies sell unflavored ice cream LeeDanielCrocker I think that varies - in Poland you have both "cream-flavored" and "vanilla-flavored" ice cream. You can even get cream-vanilla ice cream with the two flavors clearly separated. Cyker: I would avoid substituting "vanilla" for "plain" anywhere.
Doing so will make you come across ignorant and having poor taste to people who actually know what vanilla is, and that it's a very complex and very expensive flavor. As a non-native speaker it's useful to know people will sometimes use it to mean plain, but I wouldn't recommend doing that yourself.
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