Whole milk yogurts, from least to most processed

We track 20 whole milk yogurts, 30% of them ultra-processed. The least processed is Scottish natural yogurt.

What makes whole milk yogurts ultra-processed

The signs of ultra-processing found most often, and the share of whole milk yogurts that contain each:

Unprocessed or minimally processed (11)

  1. 1 Scottish natural yogurt McCallums · 500g NOVA group 1
  2. 2 Natural Yogurt Sainsbury's · 500 g NOVA group 1
  3. 3 Eko Mild Yoghurt Naturlig Fetthalt 3.8-4.5% fett Arla · 1500 g NOVA group 1
  4. 4 Natural Organic Whole Milk Yogurt Duneen · 500 g NOVA group 1
  5. 5 natural yogurt Onken NOVA group 1
  6. 6 Greek Yogurt Whole Milk Plain Chobani · 907g (32 OZ) NOVA group 1
  7. 7 Whole Milk Yogurt Bellwether Farms · 32 oz NOVA group 1
  8. 8 Whole Milk Yoghurt Jalna · 1kg NOVA group 1
  9. 9 Total 5% Milkfat Fage · 5.3 NOVA group 1
  10. 10 Organic Greek Plain Whole Milk Yogurt Stonyfield · 1.9 lb NOVA group 1
  11. 11 Desi dahi Desi Natural NOVA group 1

Processed food (3)

  1. 12 Yoghurt Bonne Maman NOVA group 3
  2. 13 Total 0% Fat with Honey Fage · 150g NOVA group 3
  3. 14 Deep Dahi Deep · 500g NOVA group 3

Ultra-processed food (6)

  1. 15 Nature Yogourt Oikos · 175g NOVA group 4
  2. 16 Plain Whole Milk Probiotic Yogurt Stonyfield Organic · 32 oz NOVA group 4
  3. 17 Greek Yogurt Vanilla Bean Trader Joe's · 5.3 oz (150 g) NOVA group 4
  4. 18 Vanilla Whole Milk Yogurt Stonyfield Organic NOVA group 4
  5. 19 Whole Milk Vanilla Yogurt Simply Nature · 32 oz NOVA group 4
  6. 20 Specially selected lemon curd farmhouse yogurt Aldi NOVA group 4

Within each group, products with fewer signs of ultra-processing, additives and ingredients come first. This ordering is ours, for comparison; it is not part of NOVA.