Is Frozen Yogurt a better bet?
Not always. Ben n’ Jerry’s Lighten Up! Chocolate Fudge Brownie made with low-fat yogurt is lower in calories and fat than their plain Chocolate Fudge Brownie, but still has 170 calories per half cup and almost 6 teaspoons of sugar. Read labels and look for a frozen yogurt product that has no more than 150 calories per ½ cup serving and 2 grams of fat. Examples of frozen yogurts that meet this limit include Dreyer’s Fat-free Frozen Yogurts (90 cal/0 fat) and TCBYs’ Fat-free yogurts (110 calories/0 fat). TCBY’s Low-fat frozen yogurts meet the calorie allotment (140 cal), but have a little too much fat (3 grams). 3. What about sugar? Are all ice creams about the same? Sugar content ranges from 4 to 30 grams per half cup serving. There are 4 grams per teaspoon, so that means from about 1 to 8 teaspoons a serving. Labels don’t tell you how much sugar comes from fruit and how much comes from plain old sugar, so for example, Haagen Dazs fat-free Raspberry Sorbet has almost 7 tsp of sugar, but
