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best low fat yoghurts for type 1

The Activa 0 fat raspberry favour is lovely and creamy and around 9 g carbs per pot (I also like the mandarin and vanilla which are both under 10g carbs per pot). I do use the weight watchers ones too at 6g but I find these taste artificial. I always aim for the yogurts that contain 10g carbs or less per pot.
 
Make sure you buy yoghurt with live bio-cultures (which is most of it these days).

Dr Steve Phinney reckons that you can ignore most of the carbohydrate content in natrual yoghurt, as long as it contains live bio-cultures. The carbs listed on the label are the from the milk used to make the yoghurt and they are mostly digested by the bacteria:

as long as you use 'live culture yogurt' ignore the sugars listed on the nutrition facts label. This is the amount of lactose (milk sugar) that was used in the ingredient milk before the yogurt was made. In live culture yogurt, more than half of this is broken down into lactic acid during the fermentation process that makes yogurt. Unlike lactose, lactic acid is easily absorbed by the body without raising your insulin level.
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I suppose, as ever, the only way to see if this is true, is to eat and test.
 
Like others I tend to use a low fat plain yoghurt with fruit. In winter I use frozen fruits, much cheaper. I don't use any sweetener, but I enjoy tart things, not sure how that would go down with a 10 year old.
A lot depends on the insulin regime he is using and when he's eating the yoghurt. If the yoghurt is part of the meal, then it might be included in the carbs for that meal, if it's a snack, then it might need to be lower.
I still feel a natural yoghurt with added fruit is more healthy for any child than artificially flavoured and sweetened yoghurts.
a comparison
Weightwatchers strawberry yoghurt
Yogurt, Strawberry (12%), Fructose Syrup, Gelatine, Modified Maize Starch, Colour: Anthocyanins; Stabilisers: Pectin, Guar Gum; Flavourings, Sweeteners: Aspartame, Acesulfame K; Acidity Regulators: Citric Acid, Calcium Malates.
Carbs per 100g :5.7g

Total 0% yoghurt
Pasteurised skimmed cows' milk, live active yoghurt cultures (L.Bulgaricus, S. Thermophilus, L. Acidophilus, Bifidus, L. Casei)
carbs + 100g : 4.0
+frozen raspberries
say 25g 2g carb
similar carb counts but less 'industrial'
 
I always have total greek yogurt, and add frozen mixed berries, yummy, almost like ice cream. I don't add sweetener though. I find it doesn't affect my bg's very much at all.
 
Must try the Greek yohurt and frozen berry approach - sounds yum and very natural.
 
Sainsbury's do a really good frozen "Basics" range of frozen berries for about £1.10 which has lots of strawberries, blackberries plus blueberries and red currants. :thumbup:
 
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