FroYo Vs. Ice-cream

Most frozen yogurts, indeed, have fewer calories and less fat than most ice creams. A half cup of Häagen-Dazs vanilla ice cream, a so-called super premium brand, contains 250 calories and 17 grams of fat. Carvel vanilla ice cream contains 175 calories and 9.7 grams of fat. The same amount of most nonfat frozen yogurts contains between 80 and 100 calories, and 0 grams of fat.

(Low-fat frozen yogurt, however, is comparable to low-fat ice cream: YoCream French vanilla frozen yogurt contains 100 calories and 3 grams of fat; Edy’s Slow Churned low-fat vanilla ice cream contains 100 calories and 3.5 grams of fat.)

When it comes to sugar, however, look out. Most frozen yogurt contains as much, if not more, sugar than ice cream. Häagen-Dazs vanilla ice cream has 19 grams of sugar, Edy’s Grand ice cream has 13 grams. TCBY, Swirls and Twirls, 16 Handles and Red Mango vanilla frozen yogurt contain 17 to 19 grams of sugar.

All this nutritional information is based on 83 grams, or about a ½-cup serving of frozen yogurt, a quantity that hardly measures up to what’s in most people’s cups. If you filled the smallest cup available at Red Mango to the brim, for example, that would be more than 1 ½ cups. And just try figuring out what 83 grams is; yogurt shop scales measure in either pounds or ounces. (For the record, 83 grams is equivalent to 2.92 ounces or 0.18 pounds.)

It goes without saying that once you add the chopped Heath Bars, Gummi Bears, rainbow sprinkles and nuts, all healthful nutritional bets are off.

Source: spokesman.com