Chobani and a general sugar question

 I LOVE the Chobani greek yogurt! But WOW the sugar is 20g! Why don't I dump? The sugar in the ingredients list says "evaporated cane juice" and I googled it. It's pretty much the same thing as sugar but supposedly not as processed, has a little more nutrients, blah, blah, blah...

I also learned that evaporated cane juice is also "Turbinado" sugar. Has anyone used that?

How many grams of sugar before you dump if you do at all?

I'm guessing that some of the sugars are from the dairy itself. What do you think?

Are you eating the flavored greek yogurt? I know that has a lot of sugar per serving, but maybe you're not eating a full serving and that's why you're not dumping? Then again, maybe you're a non-dumper? Has sugar affected you before?

I dump, so the only greek yogurt I eat is the unflavored, and I flavor it with sf jelly. All of the other yogurts on the market have too much sugar for me.

I'm not sure the evaporated cane juice is different or not - I think I have an overly-sensitive pouch as I cannot eat some fruits (pineapple = ). Could just be me...

I avoid the Chiobani Flavored Yogurts.... I use the Chiobani plain and make my own flavors to avoid the 20+gr of sugar.

Sugar is sugar and carb is carb.....my NUT and I want me on LOW Carb.

That said, many folks don't dump.... me being one of them.

Do Not Eat the Fruit Flavored Greek Yogurts, only eat the Plain Fat Free.  Add your own fresh fruit or S/F Jam to it.  Even if you don't dump, you don't need to start a habit that is not good for you.

I get a large tub of the fage fat free and a tub of the 2% and mix them together to make my own 1% and I add fruit with some sugar free syrup.. berries w/ sf raspberry syrup is lovely.. sometimes I also use a small amount of nsa jam

A favorite flavor combination......plain yogurt+sweetner+nutmeg...sounds weird, but worth a try.

Judging a food's "worthiness" by whether you dump on it or not isn't necessarily a productive way to approach this journey.  Many of us don't dump (I don't)... I've seen statistics that only about 40% of WLS patients actually dump on sugar.

Guidelines from my surgeon and nutritionist are to avoid any food with more than 2g of ADDED sugars.  If a nutrition label has a number higher than 2 for the sugar, look at the ingredients.  If any of the following are listed in the first 5 ingredients, avoid the item:

• barley malt
• beet sugar
• brown sugar
• buttered syrup
• cane-juice crystals
• cane sugar (includes evaporated cane juice)
• caramel
• carob syrup
• corn syrup
• corn syrup solids

That's just a small taste of it. There are many, many more so read more

• date sugar
• dextran
• dextrose
• diatase
• diastatic malt
• ethyl maltol
• fructose
• fruit juice
• fruit juice concentrate
• glucose
• glucose solids
• golden sugar
• golden syrup
• grape sugar
• high-fructose corn syrup
• honey
• invert sugar
• lactose
• malt syrup
• maltodextrin
• maltose
• mannitol
• molasses
• raw sugar
• refiner's syrup
• sorbitol
• sorghum syrup
• sucrose
• sugar
• turbinado sugar
• yellow sugar

add cyrstal light or other dry drink mix to plan to flavor.  so much better than the flavored.  i am actually a savory gal and use plain as sub for sour cream.  right now have cucumbers marinating in chobani plain . . .

I live in Podunk, PA, so, Plain Chobani hasn't made it here yet. Just the fruit flavored. Naturally, I assumed that was what others were eating when I see it on the "what r u eating today" post. I'll look for the plain in other stores.

I ate the blueberry yogurt and THEN read the sugars. I was pretty worried for about an hour, then I never had any problems.WHEW! But that was unintentional.

I'll lay off the chobani for now.

Thanks everyone!

There are a lot of brands out there to chose from:

Oikos, Chobani, Fage, Brown Cow, etc.

Always chose the plain fat free.  I have found that Oikos is the least tardiest.  I mix mine with Sugar Free Fat Free Jello Instant Pudding & Pie Filling Powder (4 tsp = 1 svg). The Pistachio Pudding Mix is very good.  I have also done 2 tsp vanilla powder, 2 tsp. cheesecake powder, 1 Tbsp. Smucker Sugar Free Jam.  Banana Cream isn't bad either.  Chocolate doesn't really do anything for me.