If you’re passing out candy or taking your kids trick-or treating this Halloween, there are a few high-calorie, sugar-loaded pieces that are scary enough to make you want to avoid eating a high amount of these treats. As hard as it may possibly be, don’t get tricked into eating too many!
Candy Corn
While it’s true you should consume multiple vegetable servings in a day, these colorful candies are definitely far away from the actual vegetable in which it was inspired from. An amount of 19 pieces equals to about 1.3 ounces, has 140 calories and 32 grams of sugar. Granted, there are zero grams of fat in candy corn but there’s also no other nutritional value in this popular treat.
Snickers
Although this candy bar contains peanuts, which are considered to be a healthy snack, the actual candy bar itself is far from healthy. Snickers’ snack bar size contains 80 calories, four grams of total fat, 9 grams of sugar and 1.5 grams of saturated fat. With this delicious candy bar being made up of caramel, chocolate and nougat, it’s hard to think you’ll be satisfied after just one.
Reese’s Peanut Better Cup
Here’s another popular, tasty treat that combines the beloved peanut to help make up it’s goodness. Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup provides what seems to be the perfect sweet and salty combo, but the nutritional facts are scary. With only eating one of these, you’re consuming 170 calories, three grams of saturated fat, 16 grams of sugar and 10 grams of total fat. As good as they are, you may be better off asking for a trick instead.
Almond Joy
It may seem like this treat would be one of the better choices to choose from when it comes to picking candy due to two of it’s ingredients, coconut and almonds, being listed as popular health foods, but this candy bar is quite the opposite. Almond Joy’s snack size candy bar contains 80 calories, eight grams of sugar, and three grams of saturated fat. Not a joy to eat too many of these in one setting.
Dark Chocolate Mounds
It’s true that dark chocolate does have compounds that offer health benefits and can be enjoyed on a daily basis depending on the portion size, however, this candy doesn’t make the cut. The snack size version of this candy bar has 80 calories, 7 grams of sugar, and 3.5 grams of fat. You’ll definitely feel the guilt of eating this dark chocolate a few times.
Trolli Sour Brite Crawlers
These colorful and fruity-flavored candies may seem small in your hand but that pack a pretty large amount of calories for its size. One serving, which consists of eight pieces, has 100 calories and 14 grams of sugar. While it’s true, the more colorful your palette is, the healthier you possibly could be, it’s definitely not the truth in this case.
Twix Caramel Cookie Bar Minis
Consuming only three of these bite-size crunchy candies means you’re eating 150 calories and 15 grams of sugar. They may be small, but they are big in amounts of calories and sugar.
All Halloween candy contains sugars and calories. Even though you may not have seen your favorite candy on the list, indulging in a few pieces should be fine but be mindful of how much candy you choose to indulge in this season.