Sugar vs. added sugar

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4. Oh, they aren't going to make it that easy.

Looking at the black cherry flavor as an example, the plain yogurt and black cherries are the top two ingredients. Extra sweetening comes in two forms: evaporated cane juice, and cherry juice concentrate. If you added the weight of those two juices together, would they weigh more than the cherries or not? What portion of the cherries is sugar? What portion of those two juices is sugar?

As for processing to increase shelf life, even that is done in many different ways. I don't think it can be universally said that anything that increases shelf life makes food worse for you health.

There are also processes and added ingredients that are just for flavor and texture, which may or may not be healthy changes to the food.

Some aspects of "processed" food, gram for gram, ounce for ounce, may not make food any better or worse for you, but it may make the food more addictive and/or seem less filling that other foods with the same caloric content, luring you into consuming larger portions than you should.