Yoplait Protein Vanilla Yogurt: 15g Protein, Labelgrade B+ (80/100)

The short answer

Yoplait Protein Vanilla Yogurt delivers 15g of protein for 100 calories in a single 5.6 oz cup — a mainstream, ready-to-eat way to clear the “high in protein” bar without leaving the dairy aisle. The headline you’d expect from a sweet vanilla yogurt is added sugar; this one dodges it. There’s 0g added sugar, and the only sweetness besides the milk itself comes from sucralose. It earns a B+ (80/100), with A+ marks on sugar, sodium, and saturated fat — and one honest ding for that artificial sweetener.

Why the B+

The whole grade turns on one trade. Strip out the sweetener question and this is an A-range label: rock-bottom sugar, rock-bottom sodium, almost no saturated fat. The sucralose is the only thing the ingredient dimension flags, and it’s enough to cap that line at 80 and pull the overall to B+. Protein density grading C is the other honest note — a 15g cup is good, but at 9.4g per 100g it’s middle-of-the-pack for yogurt, not a standout.

The sugar story is real — but read it correctly

The instinct with a “vanilla” yogurt is to brace for a sugar bomb. Here, that’s genuinely not the case: 3g of total sugar, every gram of it lactose from the milk, and zero grams added. Two things make that possible. First, the base is ultra-filtered nonfat milk — the same protein-concentrating process Fairlife uses — which raises protein while stripping out a chunk of the lactose that normally rides along. Second, the vanilla sweetness is painted on with sucralose instead of cane sugar.

So the honest framing isn’t “watch out for the sugar.” It’s the opposite: the sugar number is excellent because the sweetness is artificial. If your priority is a low-carbohydrate, low-sugar yogurt, that’s a clear win. If you specifically avoid artificial sweeteners, that same fact is the catch — there’s no sugar to worry about precisely because there’s sucralose doing the work.

Sucralose vs. the stevia crowd

This is where Yoplait Protein actually separates from its closest rivals — and not in its favor, if you’re sweetener-conscious. The category has largely moved to stevia, a plant-derived sweetener, while this cup stays on sucralose:

• Oikos Triple Zero (vanilla) — 15g protein, 90 calories, sweetened with stevia leaf extract. It matches Yoplait Protein gram-for-gram on protein and uses a plant sweetener.
• Two Good (vanilla) — 13g protein, 90 calories, stevia (Reb M). A touch less protein, also stevia-sweetened.
• Plain Greek yogurt (e.g. Oikos plain) — 15g protein from a single ingredient, cultured milk, with no sweetener at all. Sugars run higher (~6g lactose) since it isn’t ultra-filtered, but it’s the purist’s pick.

The takeaway: on protein and calories, Yoplait Protein is right in the pack — it doesn’t out-muscle Oikos Triple Zero. The deciding factor between them is which sweetener you’d rather have on the ingredient line. That single choice is the whole reason this product grades a B+ on ingredients instead of an A.

How it compares within the Yoplait line

Inside Yoplait’s own range, this vanilla cup edges the fruit-flavored Greek 100 line by about a gram of protein at the same 100 calories — a near-wash. The reason to pick this one over those is the flavor (plain sweet vanilla vs. fruit) and the slightly higher protein, not a meaningful nutrition gap. See the full lineup on the Yoplait brand page.

Who it’s for

Reach for this if you want a familiar, single-serve, dessert-sweet protein yogurt that keeps sugar and calories genuinely low and you don’t mind sucralose. It’s a convenient 15g-protein hit with a famous name on the lid. Skip it if you avoid artificial sweeteners — an equivalent stevia cup (Oikos Triple Zero) or a one-ingredient plain Greek yogurt gives you the same protein without it.

Ingredients

Cultured pasteurized ultra-filtered nonfat milk, cultured pasteurized reduced-fat milk, and water, plus 1% or less of: kosher gelatin (for texture), natural flavor, sucralose (the sweetener), potassium sorbate (to maintain freshness), and vitamin D3. (Verbatim from the USDA Branded Foods entry, FDC 2740421.)

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Scope: This page applies specifically to Yoplait Protein Vanilla Yogurt (5.6 ONZ) · UPC 00070470217918. Other sizes, flavors, or formulations may differ.