How Much Sugar is in Dairy

Naturally-Occurring Sugar in Milk
All milk has naturally-occurring sugar called lactose. Lactose is less sweet than sucrose—cane sugar—and your body is better able to process it because it occurs naturally. If you’re trying to minimize added sugars, you don’t have to worry much about lactose. However, if you’re limiting your intake of all kinds of sugar to 25 grams a day, it’s important to be mindful of the sugar in milk just like you are mindful about the naturally-occurring sugar in fruits.Added Sugar in Dairy
Milk and milk products have naturally-occurring sugar, but some dairy products get a double-dose of sweetness when sugars are added to them. This happens most often with yogurt and creamers, which are often artificially sweetened. When you’re picking a yogurt or creamer, find one with no added sugar or artificial sweeteners. Remember that even artificial sweeteners can make you crave more sugar. Giving up the supersweet taste might take some time to get used to, but soon your taste buds will adjust and you’ll be able to enjoy the natural sweet taste of lactose.Sugar Content In Dairy
Here’s the sugar content for common dairy products: Milk and Cream:- All types of regular milk, from whole to skim, contain 12 grams of sugar (and no added sugar) per 8-ounce cup. That’s less than 1 gram of sugar per tablespoon if you’re adding it to coffee.
- Chocolate and other flavored milks have a lot of added sugar. Hershey’s low-fat chocolate milk, for example, has 30 grams of sugar per cup.
- Creams, from heavy cream to half-and-half, have only 0.5 gram of sugar per cup— that’s less than ⅙ of a gram per tablespoon.
- Flavored Coffee Creamers, sold under brands like Coffee Mate, have up to 5 grams of added sugar per tablespoon.
- Yoplait Originals: 19 grams of sugar per 6-ounce serving.
- Dannon Fruit on the Bottom: 22 grams of sugar per 5.3-ounce serving
- Stonyfield Organic YoBaby: 9 grams of sugar per 4-ounce serving
- GoGurt: 8 grams of sugar per 2.25-ounce serving
- Chobani flavored: 15 grams per 5.3-ounce serving
- Unsweetened almond milk contains no sugar.
- Vanilla almond milk contains 13 grams of sugar per cup.
- Original soy milk contains 6 grams of sugar per cup.
- Vanilla soy milk contains 9 grams of sugar per cup.