Yes, yogurt is generally high in phosphorus. However, this varies depending on the type and brand of yogurt.
What is phosphorus?
Phosphorus is a mineral that is found in many foods, such as milk, cheese, yogurt, nuts, and beans. It is an important mineral for the body because it helps to build strong bones and teeth.
What is the recommended daily intake of phosphorus?
The recommended daily intake for phosphorus is 700 mg for adults.
Are there any side effects of eating too much phosphorus?
Yes, if you eat too much phosphorus, it can lead to a condition called hyperphosphatemia, which is when there is too much phosphate in the blood. This can be dangerous and cause problems such as kidney damage, or even death.
How much phosphorus is in yogurt?
The amount of phosphorus in yogurt varies depending on the type and brand of yogurt.
Based on the Food Data Central’s nutrition database of millions of food products and items, an average yogurt product contains about 122 milligrams of phosphorus per 100 grams of yogurt.
This is 17% of the recommended daily value (DV), but we rarely eat just 100 grams of yogurt.
A cup is more commonly used as a measurement when talking about yogurts, and a single cup of an average yogurt weighs about 245 grams.
Therefore a single cup of yogurt has about 300 mg of phosphorus, which is 42% of the recommended daily intake.
However, it is worth noticing that some yogurts have significantly lower amounts of phosphorous than the average.
High phosphorus yogurts
If you are looking for yogurts that have the highest amounts of phosphorus, here’s a quick list for you:
Essential Everyday Lowfat yogurt, blended raspberry
- Brand owner: Supervalu, Inc.
- Single serving: 170 g
- Package weight: 6 oz/170 g
Ingredients: Cultured pasteurized grade a low fat milk, sugar, raspberry puree, water, food starch-modified, calcium phosphate, natural flavor, color (fruit and vegetable juice, beta carotene), carrageenan, pectin, citric acid, potassium sorbate (to maintain freshness), vitamin a palmitate, vitamin d3.
Nutrients per 100 grams of yogurt:
- Phosphorus: 206 mg
- Energy: 94 kcal
- Protein: 2.94 g
- Fat: 0.88 g
- Carbohydrates: 17.65 g
- Sugar: 15.29 g
- Calcium: 353 mg
Spartan 1 % Lowfat yogurt, raspberry, original
- Brand owner: McIlhenny Company
- Single serving: 170 g
- Package weight: 6 oz/170 g
Ingredients: Cultured pasteurized grade a low fat milk, sugar, raspberry puree, water, modified food starch, calcium phosphate, natural flavor, color (fruit and vegetable juice, beta carotene), carrageenan, pectin, citric acid, potassium sorbate (to maintain freshness), vitamin a palmitate, vitamin d3.
Nutrients per 100 grams of yogurt:
- Phosphorus: 206 mg
- Energy: 94 kcal
- Protein: 2.94 g
- Fat: 0.88 g
- Carbohydrates: 17.65 g
- Sugar: 15.29 g
- Calcium: 353 mg
Giant Eagle Lowfat yogurt, blueberry
- Brand owner: Giant Eagle, Inc.
- Single serving: 170 g
- Package weight: 6 oz/170 g
Ingredients: Cultured pasteurized grade a low fat milk, sugar, water, blueberries, modified food starch, calcium phosphate, natural flavor, fruit and vegetable juice (color), carrageenan, pectin, citric acid, potassium sorbate (to maintain freshness), vitamin a palmitate, vitamin d3.
Nutrients per 100 grams of yogurt:
- Phosphorus: 176 mg
- Energy: 94 kcal
- Protein: 2.94 g
- Fat: 0.88 g
- Carbohydrates: 17.65 g
- Sugar: 14.71 g
- Calcium: 294 mg
Valu Time Strawberry lowfat yogurt
- Brand owner: Kingston Marketing Co
- Single serving: 170 g
- Package weight: 6 oz/170 g
Ingredients: Cultured pasteurized grade a low fat milk, sugar, strawberries, water, modified food starch, calcium phosphate, natural flavor, carrageenan, pectin, annatto extract color, fruit and vegetable juice (color), citric acid, potassium sorbate (to maintain freshness), vitamin a palmitate, vitamin d3.
Nutrients per 100 grams of yogurt:
- Phosphorus: 176 mg
- Energy: 94 kcal
- Protein: 2.94 g
- Fat: 0.88 g
- Carbohydrates: 17.65 g
- Sugar: 14.71 g
- Calcium: 294 mg
Meijer Lowfat yogurt (multiple flavors)
- Brand owner: Meijer, Inc.
- Single serving: 227 g
- Package weight: 32 oz/2 lbs/907 g
Ingredients (vanilla flavor): Cultured pasteurized grade a low fat milk, sugar, water, modified food starch, calcium phosphate, natural flavor, pectin, carrageenan, citric acid, potassium sorbate (to maintain freshness), turmeric and annatto extract (color), vitamin a palmitate, vitamin d3.
Nutrients per 100 grams of yogurt (vanilla):
- Phosphorus: 176 mg
- Energy: 93 kcal
- Protein: 2.64 g
- Fat: 0.88 g
- Carbohydrates: 17.62 g
- Sugar: 14.98 g
- Calcium: 264 mg
The Meijer Lowfat yogurt is available in multiple different flavors (vanilla, strawberry, orange cream, strawberry banana & key lime pie), but they all have the same 176 milligrams of phosphorus per 100 grams of yogurt. Other nutrients vary slightly, but they are almost identical to the ones above.
Purple Cow Blended lowfat yogurt (multiple flavors)
- Brand owner: Meijer, Inc.
- Single serving: 227 g
- Package weight: 32 oz/2 lbs/907 g
Ingredients: Cultured pasteurized grade a low fat milk, sugar, strawberries, water, modified food starch, calcium phosphate, natural flavor, pectin, carrageenan, fruit and vegetable juice (color), potassium sorbate (to maintain freshness), vitamin a palmitate, vitamin d3.
- Phosphorus: 176 mg
- Energy: 93 kcal
- Protein: 3.08 g
- Fat: 0.88 g
- Carbohydrates: 17.62 g
- Sugar: 14.98 g
- Calcium: 264 mg
The same applies to the Purple Cow brand. These yogurts come in strawberry, strawberry banana, vanilla, mixed berry, orange cream and blueberry flavors.