Vegan products – new Free and Healthy Extra options added
Fat-free yogurt – more plain varieties have become Free, and all flavoured varieties now have a small Syn value
Instant mashed potato – all varieties now have a Syn value
Tinned pasta shapes in tomato sauce – all varieties now have a Syn value
New Free and Healthy Extra options added for vegan members.
Big changes to yogurts
With the rapidly growing number of products and flavours of yogurt available in every supermarket, Slimming World food and nutrition teams have created a much more robust way of categorising yogurt.
That means there will be more product-specific Free Food allowances to the various types of yogurt (such as Greek, skyr, dairy-free, quark yogurts, protein yogurts and more) – based on their specific energy densities, their nutrient content and how filling they are.
New varieties have been added to the basic Free Food yogurt list.
Free Foods
Fat-free natural yogurt
Fat-free natural Greek-style yogurt
Fat-free natural Greek yogurt and skyr
Dairy-free soya yogurt, plain and unsweetened, with added calcium
(Fat-free natural fromage frais, fat-free natural cottage cheese and unflavoured quark all remain Free Food.)
The analysis has also led to a small change for flavoured yogurts, and all fat-free flavoured yogurts now have a Syn value.
Other changes
Instant mashed potato
The instant mashed potato has now changed to 3½ Syns per 100g (made up).
As well as having a lower concentration of some B vitamins, instant mash has less fibre and less filling power than mash made with fresh potatoes.
Nutritionists have found it’s also often used to ‘tweak’ Food Optimising – being used as a coating, a thickener, a flour substitute etc.
Tinned pasta shapes in tomato sauce
Spaghetti loops, shapes and alphabet shapes have now changed to ½ Syn per 100g.
Unlike dried pasta cooked at home, canned pasta is softer and takes little or no chewing (important to help us feel full).
To help protect members’ weight losses and help you get into more filling, healthy Free Food and Speed food habits, tinned pasta shapes in tomato sauce are no longer a Free Food.