Healthy Food Choices: Organic Yogurt

Organic yogurt is a good source of carbohydrates and protein. Learn some tips on choosing healthy organic products in this video clip.

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Look for low fat options
Higher in calories
No antibiotics or growth hormones

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Alice Merritt is currently the Campus Dietitian at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. She has a masters degree from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in public health with a concentration on nutrition. Alice has worked as a registered dietician for four years, and believes that helping people reach their nutritional goals will lead to a long and healthy life.

ALICE MERRRIT: Now I'm going to talk to you about organic yogurt. A lot of people are moving more towards organic foods because animals that are raised in organic environments have no antibiotics added, no added growth hormones, and are typically fed organic feed. They also move around a little bit more and they're not as constrained as some of the animals in conventional settings. Yogurt is also a very wonderful healthy food. It's a good source of carbohydrate and protein. It also has live healthy bacteria, which promote good intestinal growth, and one thing to consider when buying organic yogurt is if you're at a stage in your life of high growth such as infancy, childhood, or if you're pregnant, it might be good to consider buying organic yogurt because you're more sensitive to things during these stages. Things to consider when buying organic yogurt, you want to make sure that you still buy low-fat options, fat-free or 1% yogurt is good. Typically, organic yogurt also uses regular sweeteners and no artificial sweeteners, so organic yogurt does tend to be a little bit higher in calories but typically, yogurt is a very healthy thing. You can add it to cereals, smoothies. All of these things are healthy considerations in buying organic yogurt.

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