Frozen Yogurt - How Many Calories?
Categories: How Many Calories?
There are few things more enjoyable than spending a warm summer evening outside with a double scoop of ice cream. But if you're dieting this summer -- or even just trying to break even by not gaining extra pounds -- ice cream on a regular basis is a definite no-no. And Gelato, its lower-fat alternative, isn't much better either, as we told you a few weeks ago. So what's a cold treat lover to do?
Frozen yogurt seems like a good alternative. After all, yogurt's a health food right? What do you think?
The answer is 460 calories in a large cup of frozen yogurt (that's the 96 percent fat-free variety) from TCBY, according to the 2009 Calorie King Calorie, Fat and Carbohydrate Counter. The good news, of course, is that it's fat-free (well, except for that 4 percent), but when you consider that a serving of Cherry Garcia is only 220 calories, it seems you'd be better off just sticking to ice cream!
Of course, you have options. Opt for a small cup of fro-yo and you're looking at 280 calories, which isn't great but cuts your calorie intake by a whopping 200 calories. Other sweet treats to wet your whistle: A popsicle has between 40 and 60 calories, and a fudgsicle has around 100 calorie.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
u262f 6-01-2009 @ 3:16PM
That 220-calorie serving of Cherry Garcia is for a mere half cup (about 4 oz), while a large TCBY is 11 oz -- almost three times the size of your Cherry Garcia. That small TCBY is still 7 oz, still almost twice the size of your single serving of Cherry Garcia. If you take a the standard half-cup single-serving of frozen yogurt, it would put you on par with a bar of fudgsicle.
Yes, frozen yogurt still consists of unnecessary dessert calories. However, frozen yogurt IS still empirically significantly better than ice cream, especially if you follow the latest fads and get the nonfat varieties.
The popsicles do have far fewer calories, but that's because they're only water and sugar. No calcium, no potassium, no protein, and no probiotic cultures (if people believe in the latest froyo ads and studies like the one reported here: http://www.thatsfit.com/2009/06/01/probiotics-and-belly-fat/ ).
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