Greek Yogurt Question

[JOSHKOSH]

I live in a small town in Canada, and it's difficult to find greek yogurt.
After a lot of searching, I've seen a lot of posts recommending straining normal yogurt in cheese cloth, for thicker texture, a 'faux greek yogurt'.

My question is: Does straining the yogurt just remove water, or do you lose any nutritional value- such as protein?

[Minotaur]

Greek yogurt is strained yogurt. You lose water and some whey. Not enough to worry about.

[pacificgrl]

it won't yield as much strained bc of the whey being removed but i'd imagine the cals are the same.

here's a post i put together on greek yogurt. you can check some of those product locators for a distributor in canada.

[pecan]

you could always measure the liquid:

http://www.thecaloriecounter.com/Foo...1112/Food.aspx