I'm not sure what you mean by sugar. There is nothing but milk and enzymes in plain yogurt and cottage cheese, unless you buy one that has geletin or preservatives.
If you are talking about lactose, that's different. Many foods, like fruit, contain certain types of sugars naturally. Core foods are those that also naturally contain high levels of good nutrients.
Core is just trying to get you to limit sugar that is added to foods that don't naturally contain it.
There are inconsistencies. For example, I believe any kind of ketchup is okay, even though it is sweetened. The reasoning behind some of the inconsistent rules is that certain foods are likely to be triggers. You're not going to eat a bowl of ketchup, but you might eat more hot fresh cornbread than you should, for example. It's way easier to go overboard on raisins than it is on grapes.
In the case of the soup you mentioned in the other thread, I think sometimes it's okay to use your own judgement about whether you want to count a point or not. If it's just a trace amount in the beef broth and everything else is pretty much Core, I personally wouldn't bother. Sometimes I don't count low points corn tortillas or completely whole wheat crackers, because I know that having a serving as part of a good meal isn't going to set me off.
I think prepackaged stuff like soups are always going to be pretty much a judgement call. Some of them are way off the charts in fat, so they can't just say "Soup is Core." But if your WP soup is good and isn't much different in fat and calories than a comparable soup that doesn't have any sugar listed, why worry?
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