Whole apples baked until soft, stuffed with a crunchy oat, walnut and cinnamon filling and served with Greek yogurt. Score a line around the middle of each apple first so it does not burst in the oven.

A serving, one apple with 75g of yogurt, has about 252 calories, 11g of protein and 6g of fibre. Most of the protein comes from the Greek yogurt, which turns a simple baked fruit into a more filling snack or dessert.
Keep the skin on. Much of an apple's fibre is in and just under the skin, and baking it whole keeps all of it. With the oats and walnuts in the filling, the fibre here is higher than in most desserts.
Sugar. The natural sugar in the apples does most of the sweetening, so the recipe needs only a tablespoon of maple syrup for four, under 4g of added sugar a serving. The UK advises no more than 30g of free sugars a day, and US guidelines say less than 10% of daily calories.
Why it is tagged for menopause. It is a warm, satisfying dessert that brings protein, fibre and some calcium from the yogurt, rather than refined flour and sugar. It is not tagged for blood sugar, because a serving is still about 31g of carbohydrate, most of it natural sugar from the apple.
Firm apples such as Braeburn, Pink Lady or Honeycrisp hold their shape best; very soft varieties can collapse. For an apple breakfast, see the baked oats with apple and cinnamon, and for more on apples and cinnamon, see our food guides.