What is the difference between the 2 that would make one of them healthy and the other not?
P.S. I know that “healthy” is more complicated than that and not binary, but that’s how people perceive them. Hard cheeses are considered healthier than creamy cheese, but youghurt beats them all.
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Cream cheese has a lot of fat in it, especially saturated fat. 1 Tablespoon (14.5 grams) of cream cheese has 5 grams of saturated fat.
1 cup (240 grams) of plain greek yogurt has only 1.3 g of fat, 0.4 g of which is saturated fat. It has 34 grams of protein instead.
For a long time, lots of fat meant unhealthy. The reality is more complicated then that, but equal amounts of cream cheese are going to have a lot more fat, a lot more calories, and a lot more saturated fat.
Now, a lot of yogurts have lots of sugar in them, which is a whole seperate problem, but that’s a whole other topic.
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