Sour Cream vs Greek Yogurt nutrition
Sour cream has more fat, calories and sugar. Nonfat Greek yogurt has more protein, potassium and calcium.
- Sour cream100 g
- Nonfat Greek yogurt100 g
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Exact amounts and % Daily Value
| Nutrient | Sour cream | Nonfat Greek yogurt | Daily Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calories | 198 kcal (10%) | 59 kcal (3%) | 2,000 kcal |
| Protein | 2.4 g (5%) | 10.2 g (20%) | 50 g |
| Fat | 19.4 g (25%) | 0.39 g (<1%) | 78 g |
| Saturated fat | 10.1 g (51%) | 0.12 g (<1%) | 20 g |
| Carbs | 4.6 g (2%) | 3.6 g (1%) | 275 g |
| Fiber | 0 g (0%) | 0 g (0%) | 28 g |
| Sugar | 3.4 g | 3.2 g | none set |
| Cholesterol | 59 mg (20%) | 5 mg (2%) | 300 mg |
| Salt (sodium) | 31 mg (1%) | 36 mg (2%) | 2,300 mg |
| Potassium | 125 mg (3%) | 141 mg (3%) | 4,700 mg |
| Calcium | 101 mg (8%) | 110 mg (8%) | 1,300 mg |
| Iron | 0.07 mg (<1%) | 0.07 mg (<1%) | 18 mg |
| Magnesium | 10 mg (2%) | 11 mg (3%) | 420 mg |
| Vitamin A | 124 µg (14%) | 1 µg (<1%) | 900 µg |
| Vitamin C | 0.9 mg (1%) | 0 mg (0%) | 90 mg |
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How the numbers are taken. Amounts are per 100 g of the edible part, from USDA FoodData Central (SR Legacy, public domain), in the state named — raw, boiled, roasted and so on. Percentages use the FDA Daily Values for adults and children aged 4 and over, set around a 2,000-calorie diet; your own needs can be different. This site compares amounts — it does not give diet or medical advice. Sources and limits.
What is being compared
This page compares sour cream and nonfat Greek yogurt as USDA FoodData Central lists them: “Cream, sour, cultured” (FDC 171257) and “Yogurt, Greek, plain, nonfat (Includes foods for USDA's Food Distribution Program)” (FDC 170894). All figures start from 100 grams of the edible part. A search for “greek yogurt” is taken here as nonfat Greek yogurt; whole milk Greek yogurt is in the comparer above.
Per 100 grams
Per 100 grams, sour cream has more calories (198 vs 59 kcal, 3.4 times as much), fat (19.4 vs 0.39 g, about 50 times as much), saturated fat (10.1 vs 0.12 g, about 85 times as much), carbohydrate (4.6 vs 3.6 g), sugars (3.4 vs 3.2 g), cholesterol (59 vs 5 mg, about 12 times as much), vitamin A (124 vs 1 µg, about 124 times as much) and vitamin C (0.9 vs 0 mg, against none). Nonfat Greek yogurt has more protein (10.2 vs 2.4 g, 4.2 times as much), sodium (36 vs 31 mg), potassium (141 vs 125 mg), calcium (110 vs 101 mg) and magnesium (11 vs 10 mg). They are within 3% of each other for fiber and iron.
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Per serving
A serving as USDA measures it is 1 tbsp of sour cream (12 g) and 1 container of nonfat Greek yogurt (170 g). The nonfat Greek yogurt serving is about 14 times as heavy, so per serving its numbers grow relative to the other. Switching to servings changes the leader for calories (now nonfat Greek yogurt), carbohydrate (now nonfat Greek yogurt), sugars (now nonfat Greek yogurt) and cholesterol (now nonfat Greek yogurt). One serving is 23.8 kcal of sour cream against 100 kcal of nonfat Greek yogurt.
For the same calories
To get 100 kcal you would eat 50.5 g of sour cream or 169 g of nonfat Greek yogurt. At that equal energy, sour cream carries 1.2 g of protein and nonfat Greek yogurt 17.3 g. Measured per 100 kcal instead of per 100 g, the larger amount moves for carbohydrate (to nonfat Greek yogurt) and sugars (to nonfat Greek yogurt).
Where the calories come from
Roughly, 5% of the energy in sour cream comes from protein, 86% from fat and 9% from carbohydrate; for nonfat Greek yogurt it is 69%, 6% and 25%. These shares use the general 4, 9 and 4 kcal per gram and can differ slightly from USDA's own energy factors.
Against the Daily Value
1 tbsp of sour cream reaches its largest shares of the Daily Value in saturated fat (6%), fat (3%) and cholesterol (2%); 1 container of nonfat Greek yogurt reaches its largest shares of the Daily Value in protein (35%), calcium (14%) and potassium (5%). Daily Values are the FDA label reference amounts for adults and children aged 4 and over, set around a 2,000-calorie diet; they are a yardstick for reading labels, not a target for any one person.