Every Cup and Tub Rated With the Daily Vitality Score, Counting Down to the Best
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Stand in front of the yogurt case for thirty seconds and you'll see the problem. One cup promises 20 grams of protein. Another says zero sugar. A third has a strawberry sitting on the bottom and a word on the front that sounds like a health claim all by itself: Greek. Most of us grab the one with the biggest protein number and move on, and that's a perfectly reasonable shortcut. It just isn't the whole picture.
So we took 20 Greek yogurts (and two close cousins that sit right beside them on the shelf) and ran every one through the same published formula: the Daily Vitality Score. It rates any packaged food from 0 to 100 using only what's printed on the package, the Nutrition Facts panel and the ingredient list, so you can check our work with the container in your hand. We read every label on October 19, 2026, from the brand's own website first and a major retailer's page when the brand didn't publish one.
The set covers Chobani, Fage and Oikos, plus The Greek Gods, Too Good & Co. (the brand formerly called Two Good), Stonyfield and the store brands from Target, Costco and Walmart. Ten are plain and ten are flavored. We count down from No. 20 to No. 1, so the best scorer lands last.
Here's the first surprise: in the United States, "Greek" isn't a regulated term. The federal yogurt standard sets the rules for what can be called yogurt, including at least 8.25% milk solids not fat and a finished pH of 4.6 or lower, and the federal standard of identity for yogurt never once uses the word Greek. There's no legal minimum for protein, thickness or straining.
That leaves two very different products sharing one word. Traditional Greek yogurt is strained, which drains away liquid whey and concentrates the protein. "Greek-style" yogurt can get its thickness another way, with added cream or a thickener such as pectin. The clearest tell is protein per 100 grams. The strained plain yogurts in our set carry between 8.8 and 10.7 grams per 100 grams. The Greek Gods Plain Traditional, sold as "Greek-style" and thickened with pectin, carries 4.1 grams.
The rules have also loosened in recent years. In 2021, FDA revoked the separate standards for lowfat and nonfat yogurt and folded them into one yogurt standard, and later changes allowed all safe and suitable sweeteners, including non-nutritive ones like stevia, according to the FDA's summary of the yogurt standard amendments. That's part of why a zero-sugar cup and a cane-sugar cup can both carry the same name.
A few cups near the bottom of our list take a third route. Oikos Pro and Too Good & Co. are labeled "yogurt-cultured ultra-filtered milk." Ultra-filtration concentrates milk protein and strips out much of the milk sugar before the milk is ever cultured. They're thick and high in protein, they sit in the Greek yogurt section, and they are not, by their own labels, Greek yogurt.
The Daily Vitality Score gives 75 points to nutrition and 25 to the ingredient list. On the nutrition side, sodium is worth 20 points, calories 15, and saturated fat, added sugars, fiber and protein 10 each. Fiber and protein are measured per 100 calories, while everything else is measured per 100 grams. On the ingredient side, the first ingredient is worth 10 points, the absence of ultra-processing markers another 10, and a short ingredient list 5. Between the best and worst end points, points scale evenly.
Converting everything to 100 grams matters more with yogurt than you might think. Single-serve cups are 150 grams, while tub servings are 170 grams (three-quarters or two-thirds of a cup). Stonyfield Whole Milk Plain and Fage Total 0% both list 16 grams of protein per serving, which sounds like a tie until you notice the Stonyfield serving is 20 grams heavier. Per 100 grams, Fage carries 10.7 grams of protein and Stonyfield carries 9.4.
The markers come from the NOVA definition of ultra-processed food, published by Monteiro and colleagues in Public Health Nutrition. In yogurt, that mostly means four kinds of ingredients: flavorings ("natural flavors"), sweeteners other than sugar or honey (stevia, monk fruit, allulose), thickening gums (pectin, guar, gellan, locust bean or carob bean gum) and colors, including fruit and vegetable juice concentrates added "for color." Each distinct marker costs 2.5 points. Plain starches like tapioca and corn starch don't count as markers, and neither does ordinary sugar.
A few judgment calls, applied the same way to every product: we counted whey protein concentrate as a protein-isolate marker, citrus fiber as a thickener and a preservative (potassium sorbate) as neither. We scored ultra-filtered milk as a whole-food first ingredient, since it's still fluid milk rather than a dried or reconstituted one. Where five products tied on the unrounded score, we broke the tie by protein per 100 grams, then by lower sodium.
We also cross-checked against the government's database. The latest USDA FoodData Central branded foods release holds 3,713 records for these brands with "Greek" in the name, but 333 are missing calories or protein, 382 list a cup's serving in units like "IU" or "MG" instead of grams, and only 48 were published in 2025 or 2026. There's no Kirkland Signature record at all. So every score here comes from the current label, and the database served only as a check.
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Here are all 20, ranked. "Nutrition" is out of 75 and "Ingredients" is out of 25. Protein and added sugars are per 100 grams, so a cup and a tub compare directly.
Two things jump out. First, the range is narrow, just 77 to 90, and every product rates "Good" (70 to 84) or "Excellent" (85 and up) on the score's scale. Second, look at the Nutrition column. Almost every yogurt here earns 62 to 66 of 75 nutrition points. The ranking is mostly decided in the Ingredients column.
On nutrition alone, this cup is nearly flawless. A 150-gram cup has 60 calories, no saturated fat, no sugar of any kind and 12 grams of protein, and it earns every nutrition point the formula offers except fiber. So how does it land in last place? Its ingredient list.
The Chobani Zero Sugar label runs to 13 ingredients, and seven of them are ultra-processing markers: allulose, stevia and monk fruit for sweetness, natural flavors, citrus fiber and guar gum for texture, and vegetable juice concentrate for color. That's enough to zero out the marker section and trim the ingredient-count points too. Four of its 5 grams of carbohydrate are allulose, a sweetener the label counts as carbohydrate but not as sugar.
The base is different, too. It starts with ultra-filtered nonfat milk rather than cultured milk alone, a recipe that departs from the federal yogurt standard. Chobani markets the line under an FDA temporary marketing permit, and its permit filing shows the cup labeled as nonfat Greek yogurt all the same.
It ties Too Good & Co. on the unrounded score and protein per 100 grams, and lands last on sodium: 70 milligrams per cup against Too Good's 35. One note for regular buyers: the plain Zero Sugar Strawberry cup we planned to score appears to have been discontinued, so we scored the current strawberry flavor instead.
If you've been buying Two Good, this is the same shelf spot with a new name. The brand now sells as Too Good & Co., and the cups are labeled "yogurt-cultured ultra-filtered low fat milk" rather than Greek yogurt. The plain cup is gone from the lineup, which is why the vanilla is the brand's only entry here.
The nutrition is the kind that makes a label-reader happy. According to the Too Good & Co. vanilla label, a 150-gram cup has 80 calories, 1 gram of saturated fat, 35 milligrams of sodium, just 2 grams of total sugar, no added sugar and 12 grams of protein. That's the lowest sugar of any flavored product in our set, and the lowest sodium of all 20.
The ingredient list tells a different story. It has 13 entries, including natural flavors, gellan gum, stevia and fruit and vegetable juice concentrate for color, four markers in all, which costs every one of the 10 marker points. Tapioca starch and vanilla bean specks round out the list without costing anything. If your goal is the least sugar in a sweet-tasting cup, this one delivers on that. The score simply weighs what it took to get there.
Here's the protein champion of the whole set. The Oikos Pro vanilla label lists 20 grams of protein in a 150-gram cup, which works out to 13.3 grams per 100 grams, more than any other product we scored. It also has 130 calories, 2.5 grams of saturated fat, 45 milligrams of sodium, 3 grams of total sugar and no added sugar.
So why No. 18? The formula caps protein points once a food delivers 5 grams per 100 calories, and every yogurt in our set clears that bar easily. Oikos Pro's extra protein earns it nothing more than Fage Total 0% gets. What it does pay for is the way the protein got there: whey protein concentrate (a marker), plus natural flavors and stevia, inside a 13-ingredient list that also includes cream, tapioca starch and a preservative.
Like Too Good, it's labeled "yogurt-cultured ultra-filtered milk," not Greek yogurt. For readers who track protein grams closely, this cup still carries the most per bite of anything on the shelf. The score is telling a different story, one about the ingredient list rather than the protein.
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This is the cup many of us grew up stirring, with the fruit layer waiting at the bottom. The Chobani strawberry label lists 110 calories, no saturated fat, 55 milligrams of sodium, 14 grams of total sugar, 9 grams of added sugar and 11 grams of protein in a 5.3-ounce cup.
Those 9 grams of added sugar are the most of any single-serve cup in our set. On the label's own scale, that's 18% of the Daily Value, close to the 20% line the FDA describes as a high source. But here's what surprised us: the score takes off only half a point for it. The formula's added-sugar scale runs all the way to 51 grams per 100 grams before it hits zero, and a yogurt at 6 grams barely moves the needle.
The real cost is the ingredient list. Fruit pectin, guar gum and locust bean gum all thicken; natural flavors and a fruit and vegetable juice concentrate for color round out five markers, which empties the marker section completely. The nutrition section, at 66.1 of 75, is one of the best in the set.
The FDA treats 5% of the Daily Value or less as a low source of added sugars and 20% or more as a high source. A 9-gram cup sits at 18%.
Stonyfield's vanilla is organic from top to bottom, and it has the creamy body you'd expect from whole milk. The Stonyfield vanilla bean label lists 170 calories, 3.5 grams of saturated fat, 55 milligrams of sodium, 15 grams of total sugar, 11 grams of added sugar and 14 grams of protein in a three-quarter-cup (170-gram) serving.
The ingredient list is short by flavored-yogurt standards, seven items, and the sweetener is plain organic cane sugar. It loses most of its ingredient points on three markers: natural vanilla flavor, carob bean gum and gellan gum. Organic corn starch is also on the list but, as a plain starch, doesn't count against it.
It edges out Chobani Strawberry on the Bottom by a tenth of a point. That's well inside the margin where the two are, for practical purposes, the same score. Organic certification, which matters to many shoppers, isn't something the formula measures either way.
This tub is dessert-like in the best way, with honey and brown sugar swirled through a thick, creamy base. According to the Greek Gods Honey label, a two-thirds-cup (170-gram) serving has 190 calories, 4.5 grams of saturated fat, 110 milligrams of sodium, 23 grams of total sugar, 15 grams of added sugar and 7 grams of protein.
That's the most added sugar per 100 grams in the set (8.8 grams), 30% of the Daily Value in one serving, and the lowest protein per calorie (3.7 grams per 100 calories). It's also the only product to lose protein points. Yet it ranks above five flavored cups with far less sugar, because its ingredient list is six plain items: milk, brown cane sugar, cane sugar, cream, honey and pectin. Only the pectin counts as a marker.
This is the trade-off in the formula at its clearest. It weighs a short, kitchen-style ingredient list more heavily than a higher sugar count. We read the brand's labels from a retailer page, since the brand's own website is no longer active.
Oikos's classic blended cup is the cane-sugar side of the brand, a smooth strawberry yogurt with fruit mixed through it rather than sitting on the bottom. The Oikos Blended Strawberry label lists 100 calories, no saturated fat, 55 milligrams of sodium, 12 grams of total sugar, 7 grams of added sugar and 13 grams of protein in a 150-gram cup.
Its nutrition section is the highest in the entire set, 66.5 of 75, partly because the label declares "less than 1 gram" of fiber, which the formula counts as half a gram. It loses its points on three markers (pectin, natural flavors and a juice concentrate with beta carotene for color) and a 10-item ingredient list.
We read this panel from Danone's own foodservice site because Oikos doesn't publish a consumer page for it. Availability varies by store, so the cup on your local shelf may be a different version of the line.
The split cup is a clever design: plain strained yogurt on one side, strawberry preparation on the other, and you decide how much of the fruit to fold in. The Fage split cup label lists 120 calories, 1.5 grams of saturated fat, 45 milligrams of sodium, 11 grams of total sugar, 7 grams of added sugar and 12 grams of protein.
The yogurt side is just skimmed milk, cream and cultures. The fruit side adds strawberries, cane sugar, water, corn starch, two juice concentrates, natural flavors and fruit pectin. Two of those are markers, and the combined list reaches 11 ingredients, which is where most of its ingredient points go.
The score treats the cup as you'd eat it if you stirred in all the fruit. If you stir in only half, you're eating something much closer to Fage Total 2%, which ranks No. 6. That flexibility is the real appeal here, and it's something no number on a scorecard can capture.
Triple Zero is the best of the Oikos cups and the top-scoring stevia-sweetened product in our set. The Oikos Triple Zero vanilla label lists 80 calories, no saturated fat, 55 milligrams of sodium, 5 grams of total sugar, no added sugar and 15 grams of protein in a 150-gram cup.
That's a perfect nutrition section, 65 of 65 available points. Its list is also shorter than the other zero-sugar options: nine ingredients, with natural flavors and stevia as the only two markers. Tapioca starch, lemon juice concentrate, sea salt and vitamin D make up most of the rest.
Put it next to Chobani Zero Sugar and Too Good, and you can see exactly how the ingredient section works. All three have flawless nutrition. Triple Zero uses two markers instead of four or seven, and that's worth seven or eight places on the list.
This is the most interesting result in the ranking, and the one we'd most like you to look at twice. The Greek Gods plain label lists 140 calories, 5 grams of saturated fat, 110 milligrams of sodium, 9 grams of total sugar, no added sugar and 7 grams of protein in a two-thirds-cup (170-gram) serving. Its ingredients: milk, cream and pectin.
Notice the protein. At 4.1 grams per 100 grams, it carries roughly 40% of what Fage Total 0% delivers. The tub calls itself "Greek-style," and the pectin is the thickener that does the work straining does in other brands. Yet the formula awards it full protein points, because it measures protein per 100 calories, and 4.1 grams in 82 calories lands exactly on the full-points line of 5 grams.
So the score is fair to it on its own terms, a simple, plain yogurt with three ingredients. But if protein is your main reason for choosing Greek yogurt, the protein column in our scorecard tells you more than the score does here.
One quick way to spot a strained yogurt on the shelf: divide the protein by the serving weight. Strained plain Greek yogurts in our set land between 8.8 and 10.7 grams per 100 grams; "Greek-style" thickened yogurt can carry less than half that.
Target's vanilla is the top flavored yogurt in our ranking, and the only flavored product to beat a plain one. The Good & Gather vanilla label lists 120 calories, no saturated fat, 50 milligrams of sodium, 14 grams of total sugar, 9 grams of added sugar and 15 grams of protein per three-quarter cup.
It wins on simplicity. The ingredient list is four items, cultured nonfat milk, sugar, corn starch and vanilla flavor with other natural flavors, so it gives up just one marker. Every other flavored product in the set has two or more.
It does carry a little more added sugar than the Oikos and Fage fruit cups, both per serving and per 100 grams. For readers who prefer a sweetened yogurt with a short label, this tub is the one that best fits both.
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Fage's whole-milk yogurt is the richest of the plains, the kind of thick, spoon-standing texture people mean when they talk about Greek yogurt at its best. The Fage Total 5% label lists 140 calories, 8 grams of fat with 5 grams saturated, 55 milligrams of sodium, 5 grams of total sugar, no added sugar and 14 grams of protein in a 150-gram cup.
The ingredient list is identical to Fage 2%: skimmed milk, cream and cultures. So every point it gives up comes from the nutrition side, about 2.6 points for saturated fat (3.3 grams per 100 grams) and a fraction for calories.
That's the whole story of the Fage plains. They're the same strained yogurt at three fat levels, and the score walks down the list in step with the cream. If you enjoy whole-milk yogurt, the cost here is small: three points and still well inside the "Excellent" band.
Chobani's whole-milk plain comes in a 32-ounce tub. The brand doesn't currently list a single-serve whole-milk plain cup. The Chobani whole milk label lists 170 calories, 9 grams of fat with 5 grams saturated, 60 milligrams of sodium, 6 grams of total sugar, no added sugar, less than 1 gram of fiber and 15 grams of protein per three-quarter cup (170 grams).
The single ingredient is cultured milk, so it earns all 25 ingredient points. It gives up 2.2 points on saturated fat and a sliver on calories. The "less than 1 gram" fiber declaration, scored as half a gram under the formula's rounding rule, actually earns it about one point of fiber that the other plains don't get.
Per 100 grams, it has slightly less protein (8.8 grams) and more saturated fat than Stonyfield's whole-milk plain, which is why it sits one spot behind.
The top whole-milk yogurt in our ranking is organic and has one ingredient: cultured pasteurized organic whole milk. The Stonyfield plain label lists 150 calories, 3.5 grams of saturated fat, 65 milligrams of sodium, 5 grams of total sugar, no added sugar and 16 grams of protein per three-quarter cup (170 grams).
Compared with Fage 5% and Chobani Whole Milk, it carries less saturated fat per 100 grams (2.1 grams) and more protein (9.4 grams). That's enough to put it ahead of both, and within a point and a half of the five-way tie at the top.
For readers who prefer full-fat yogurt for its texture or its staying power at breakfast, this is the whole-milk option the formula likes best.
Fage's middle child rounds to 90 like the five above it but sits a hair below them, at 89.6. The Fage Total 2% label lists 100 calories, 2 grams of saturated fat, 50 milligrams of sodium, 5 grams of total sugar, no added sugar and 15 grams of protein in a 150-gram cup.
Its saturated fat, 1.3 grams per 100 grams, is just over the 1-gram line where full points end, which costs it 0.4 of a point. Everything else is a perfect score, including a three-item ingredient list of skimmed milk, cream and cultures.
If nonfat yogurt tastes a little thin to you, Fage 2% is about as close as a creamier yogurt gets to the top of this list.
Here's where the five-way tie begins. Chobani's plain nonfat cup earns the formula's maximum possible score for yogurt, 90 out of 100. The Chobani nonfat label lists 80 calories, no saturated fat, 55 milligrams of sodium, 5 grams of total sugar, no added sugar and 14 grams of protein in a 5.3-ounce cup. Its ingredient list is just cultured nonfat milk.
Why 90 and not 100? Yogurt has no fiber. Every product in this set forfeits all 10 fiber points, so 90 is the ceiling. The USDA's own reference record for plain lowfat Greek yogurt scores the same 90.
Chobani lands fifth among the tied five on our tiebreaker, protein per 100 grams. At 9.3 grams, it's a little behind Fage 0% and the store brands. That's the only thing separating it from the top.
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Walmart's store brand ties Chobani and Fage at 90. According to the Great Value label on Walmart's site, a two-thirds-cup (170-gram) serving has 100 calories, no saturated fat, 50 milligrams of sodium, 7 grams of total sugar, no added sugar and 17 grams of protein. The only ingredient is cultured pasteurized nonfat milk.
The 7 grams of total sugar are a little higher than the 4 to 6 grams on the other plain nonfats. That's naturally occurring milk sugar, and the score doesn't count it, since it scores only added sugars. It also has the lowest sodium of the plain products, 29 milligrams per 100 grams.
It ranks fourth among the tied five because its protein, 10.0 grams per 100 grams, is a touch below the three ahead of it. One thing worth knowing: Walmart's listing changed between our September and October checks, from 6 grams of sugar and 70 milligrams of sodium to the figures above. The tub in your hand is the final word.
Costco's organic Greek yogurt ties at the top with one of the highest protein counts among the plains. The Kirkland Signature label on Costco's site lists 100 calories, no saturated fat, 65 milligrams of sodium, 4 grams of total sugar, no added sugar and 18 grams of protein per 170-gram serving. Ingredients: organic nonfat milk and live cultures.
At 10.6 grams of protein per 100 grams, it ties Good & Gather on our first tiebreaker. It lands third on the second, sodium, at 38 milligrams per 100 grams against Good & Gather's 32. That's a difference of a few milligrams, and you'd never notice it in the bowl.
Costco now sells two Kirkland nonfat Greek tubs, this organic one and a conventional version. Only the organic tub had a full label from Costco itself, so it's the one we scored.
Target's plain nonfat finishes second, a whisker behind the winner. The Good & Gather plain label lists 100 calories, no saturated fat, 55 milligrams of sodium, 6 grams of total sugar, no added sugar and 18 grams of protein per three-quarter cup. Its one ingredient is cultured pasteurized nonfat milk.
That's 10.6 grams of protein per 100 grams, tied with Kirkland, and slightly less sodium. Target's page doesn't print a gram weight for the serving; we used 170 grams, the weight on the same product's USDA record and on the label of its vanilla sibling.
Two of the top three spots going to store brands is one of the clearest findings in this ranking. On the label, plain nonfat Greek yogurt from a store brand is nutritionally interchangeable with the national names. Price isn't part of the score, but it's a fair thing to weigh alongside it.
And the top spot goes to Fage Total 0%. The Fage Total 0% label lists 80 calories, no saturated fat, 55 milligrams of sodium, 5 grams of total sugar, no added sugar and 16 grams of protein in a 150-gram cup, with 180 milligrams of calcium. The ingredients are skimmed milk and live yogurt cultures.
It shares the maximum score of 90 with four others. What sets it apart is protein. At 10.7 grams per 100 grams and 20 grams per 100 calories, it's the most protein-dense plain yogurt in the set, and that's our tiebreaker.
If you've wondered whether the brand with the famously thick texture earns its reputation on paper, here's your answer. It does, without a single added ingredient to do it. The score can't tell you whether you'll prefer it to the four yogurts tied beside it, but it can tell you that you're not giving anything up by choosing any of them.
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A score this tight deserves a few honest caveats. The biggest is the ceiling. Because the formula gives 10 points for fiber and yogurt has none, a plain yogurt can't realistically score above 90, and the USDA's own reference record for plain lowfat Greek yogurt scores exactly that. A 1- or 2-point gap between yogurts is a small difference.
Second, the formula is gentle on sugar in yogurt. Its added-sugar scale runs to 51 grams per 100 grams, so even The Greek Gods Honey, at 8.8 grams, gives up only about one point. Meanwhile, each gum, flavor or non-sugar sweetener costs 2.5 points. That's why a cane-sugar cup with a short list can outrank a zero-sugar cup with a long one. Whether ultra-processing matters for health beyond the nutrients themselves is still debated among researchers, which is exactly why the ingredient section is capped at 25 points.
Third, protein is capped. Every yogurt here clears the formula's full-points line of 5 grams per 100 calories, so Oikos Pro's 20 grams and The Greek Gods' 7 grams earn the same 10 points. If protein is your priority, the protein column in the scorecard is the number to read.
We also compared our ranking with Nutri-Score, the European front-of-pack system our formula borrows its nutrient cut-offs from. On nutrients alone, the two agree reasonably well. Overall they agree only weakly, and the disagreement sits exactly where you'd expect: Nutri-Score has no ingredient section, so it grades Chobani Zero Sugar, Too Good and Oikos Pro an A, while our score puts them at the bottom. It grades The Greek Gods Plain and Honey a C, on their sugar and saturated fat.
Finally, the score doesn't count live cultures, calcium, organic certification or price. Labels also change, and several products in our planned list had been renamed, reformulated or discontinued by the time we read them. Every figure here is as of October 19, 2026.
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Ryan May is a digital publishing leader with more than 25 years of experience turning complex information into clear, useful editorial work. At Daily Vitality, he focuses on evidence-led reporting about nutrition, fitness, healthy aging, and long-term wellbeing, informed by his own interests in cooking, yoga, cycling, and sustainable healthy habits.
Fage Total 0% took the No. 1 spot with a score of 90. Four others tied it at 90: Good & Gather Plain Nonfat, Kirkland Signature Organic Nonfat Plain, Great Value Plain Nonfat and Chobani Plain Nonfat. Fage won the tiebreak on protein per 100 grams.
On this formula, Fage comes out ahead, with all four of its products in the top 13 and its 0% cup at No. 1. Chobani's best is its plain nonfat at No. 5. Oikos's best is Triple Zero Vanilla at No. 12, since all of its cups are flavored.
The score awards 10 points for fiber, and yogurt naturally has none. That makes 90 the practical ceiling, and five plain nonfat yogurts reached it.
Plain yogurts averaged about 89 and flavored ones about 81. Every plain yogurt outscored every flavored one except Good & Gather Vanilla, which beat The Greek Gods Plain.
Their nutrition is excellent, but reaching zero sugar takes several added ingredients, such as stevia, monk fruit, allulose, natural flavors and gums. The formula counts each of these as an ultra-processing marker, and Chobani Zero Sugar and Too Good & Co. use enough to lose all 10 marker points.
No. The federal yogurt standard sets requirements for milk solids and acidity but never mentions "Greek." Straining is common practice, not a legal requirement.
It usually signals a yogurt thickened by something other than straining alone. The Greek Gods Plain, labeled Greek-style and thickened with pectin, has 4.1 grams of protein per 100 grams, compared with 8.8 to 10.7 grams for the strained plain yogurts we scored.
Not by their own labels. Both are labeled "yogurt-cultured ultra-filtered milk." They're made from milk that has been filtered to concentrate protein and reduce milk sugar, then cultured. They're sold next to Greek yogurt, so we included them.
Serving sizes differ: cups are usually 150 grams and tub servings 170 grams. Comparing per serving makes larger servings look more nutritious. Converting every label to 100 grams compares the yogurt itself.
No. The score covers sodium, calories, saturated fat, added sugars, fiber and protein, plus the ingredient list. Calcium, vitamins, live cultures and price are not part of it.
The labels were read on October 19, 2026. Brands reformulate, rename and discontinue products often; several on our original list had changed. We re-score when a label changes.
