Ingredient listing vs nutrition label

[rysmom14]

I recently bought plain yogurt for my son, and I found myself looking only at the ingredient list and not so much the nrutrition label. I bought Dannon brand of plain yogurt and the only ingredient is cultured milk, but when I look above at the nutrition section, it has that per serving, it has 11 grams of sugar????hmmmm

I don’t know how to read it, so I’m not sure if I should give it to him or not. I thought the key was looking at the ingredients and now I wonder if I should check both???

[denverjay]

It is fine as long as the yogurt you bought was truly plain. The sugars listed on the label are from the lactose in the milk cultures.

[rysmom14]

Thank You!

[charlie]

Yes, as has been said, read the ingredients to work out which sugars the reading is as it can be sucrose, fructose, lactose, maltose, glucose or galactose. In pure yoghurt it will be lactose.
www.cronometer.com is something Colormist introduced me too and it is really helpful as you can set up your profile to list all sugars separately too.