Go-Gurt Ingredients: More Sugar than Coca-Cola

Yoplait's GoGurt has more sugar per ounce than Coca-Cola. With such ingredients, should parents think of this as a "healthy snack"?

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)