It's hard to top nonfat yogurt for a healthy snack. It's low in fat and provides healthy probiotics that promote gastrointestinal health, according to the Harvard Medical School. Nonfat yogurt is low enough in calories that it can be a regular part of a healthy diet.
Calories
Serve yourself 1 cup of nonfat yogurt and you'll consume 110 calories. Nonfat yogurt with added fruit may contain more calories, depending on whether or not the fruit has added sugar or is sweetened with a non-nutritive sweetener.
Basic Nutrition
A serving of nonfat yogurt provides 16 g of carbohydrates and 10 g of protein. Most of the carbohydrates in nonfat yogurt are due to naturally occurring milk sugars. As the name indicates, there is no fat in a serving of nonfat yogurt.
Benefits
You'll get 40 percent of the daily recommendation for calcium in a 1-cup serving of nonfat yogurt. In fact, the National Institutes of Health lists yogurt as the No. 1 food source for dietary calcium. Calcium is an essential nutrient for not only healthy teeth and bones, but for healthy nerves, blood vessels and balanced hormones.
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