Snack-Pack Showdown: Do Smaller Versions Taste Better Than the Original?

March 8, 2007 — -- You want that Oreo or those Cheez-It crackers, but you don't want to blow your diet.

Now many snack makers are marketing the "100-calorie snack pack" -- a smaller, lower-calorie version of the original.

ShopSmart Editor in Chief Lisa Lee Freeman says the snack-pack versions are not necessarily better for you nutritionally. They are still loaded with salt, sugar and fat.

The key, she says, is portion control. For example, two regular Oreo cookies are 100 calories, but you could fill a bowl with the 100-calorie snack-pack version called Oreo Thin Crisps.

But do they taste like the real thing?

"Good Morning America" and Freeman tasted some of the more popular snack packs to find out.

In a live taste-test, however, "GMA" anchor Chris Cuomo gave them a thumbs up. He said of the smaller cupcake, "If I could eat six of these to one of these [original cupcake], I'll take these any day!"