You may be trying to live the healthy path that you chance the habit of eating ice cream after meals to eating frozen yogurt. You are thinking that this is the best way for you as the frozen yogurt are both delicious and also healthy for the body. Unconsciously, you have become part of the 2 billion dollar frozen yogurt industry. Most of the customers of the frozen yogurt are female. Even so, do all of these customers really understand the health benefits of yogurt? Let us see the myths of frozen yogurt and the actual fact.
The myth of frozen yogurt number one is that frozen has low fat and naturally nonfat, therefore the customers will be able to eat as much frozen yogurt as they want to without gaining any weight and exposing their bodies to different kinds of illnesses. This myth is only partially true. Most of the yogurt is nonfat and thus, they are very low in fat level, however they still have lots of calories and the more you consume, the more calories will add up.
Even the plant or nonfat or original frozen yogurt which contains the lowest level of calorie still has about 30 – 35 calories for each ounce and added with about 20 grams of sugar which means that the 16 ounce cup of frozen yogurt would be about 380 calories plus sugar, before being added with any toppings whatsoever.
So, even the frozen yogurt can be considered as a healthy snack, or at least healthier than ice creams, than it does not mean that there should be no limitation sin the consumption. In fact, you need to reduce and limit the intake of frozen yogurt so that you will not consume more than 150 calories for the small portion and for the larger portion, you should not exceed 230 calories.
The next myth on frozen yogurt is that the toppings do not contain lots of calories. This is absolutely true as unlike ice creams, the toppings of frozen yogurt are mainly fresh fruits. However, this myth becomes not tru if you use granola for snack toppers. The granola itself will ad up 138 calories and the additional almost 7 ounce of fat for each ounce. Another should be avoided topping is the sweet cereals and nuts that can add up as much as 116 calories and also 3 grams of fat for each ounce.
