How Much Oxalate Is in Whole milk Yogurt?
mg oxalate
per serving
Serving: 1 cup (245 g)
Verdict: 🟢 Safe
Per 100g: 0 mg
Data: Harvard T.H. Chan SPH (2024)
The bottom line for Whole milk Yogurt: Safe (🟢), with 0 mg oxalate per serving — comfortably below the 25 mg safe cutoff. There's no need to limit it. Just keep your usual kidney stone basics in place: water throughout the day and calcium-rich foods at meals.
Putting Whole milk Yogurt in context: it lands well below the category average of 3 mg. In the database, 95% of dairy & eggs (87 of 91) fall in the 🟢 Safe group (under 25 mg oxalate/serving). The typical dairy & eggs here averages 3 mg oxalate per serving, so Whole milk Yogurt runs 100% below that baseline. That places it among the lower-oxalate options in its category. Why this matters: the gap between two Safe foods can be wide — one may hold 5 mg oxalate while another sits at 24 mg. The lower one leaves more room in your day. See all dairy & eggs rated Safe for a full side-by-side.
Why does oxalate per 100g matter?
The per-100g number lets you compare foods on an equal-weight basis, regardless of serving size. It's useful when two foods have very different typical serving sizes, or when you eat more or less than a standard serving. Whole milk Yogurt comes in at 0 mg oxalate per 1 cup (Safe) in the measured database.
How accurate is the oxalate measurement?
The measurements use ion chromatography, the accepted reference method for oxalate. That means real lab values for each food rather than inferred numbers. Some natural variation exists between samples, but this is the strongest published data set. For context, Whole milk Yogurt measures 0 mg per 1 cup, rated Safe.
How does this compare to other foods?
Anything under 25 mg per serving is Safe; 25-99 mg is Caution; 100 mg or more is Avoid. The category pages on OxalateWatch list foods side by side, so you can see where this one ranks. For Whole milk Yogurt, the measured oxalate value is 0 mg per 1 cup (Safe).