Eat This, Not That: Halloween Edition
Eat this, not that: Some candy hurts your diet more than others.
Oct. 27, 2008 — -- This Halloween you can enjoy some treats, but don't be tricked by sweets. You may be surprised to learn some of those little candies have more calories, carbs or sugar than food people often avoid when watching their weight.
Lisa Drayer of Women's Health magazine gives you tips on which sugary samples and edibles are least likely to wreck your diet.
We think of potato chips as being the ultimate snack food indulgence, but one serving of Cape Cod potato chips — 19 chips — has only 17 grams of carbohydrates. Three marshmallow ghost Peeps have 28 grams of carbs, which is more than one-and-a-half times the amount of carbs as a single serving of potato chips.
Some may be surprised to learn that three Hershey's fun-sized chocolate bars have 230 calories and 13 grams of fat, which is the same as a package of small French fries from Burger King. The fries also have 230 calories and 13 grams of fat.
When it comes to sugar, 22 little pieces of Brach's candy corn have more grams than a Krispy Kreme caramel kreme crunch doughnut.
The candy corn has 31 grams of sugar, while the doughnut has only 26 grams.
This is a surprise. Five pieces of the sugar-free Reese's Peanut Butter Cups have 160 calories and 5 grams of saturated fat, and the regular cups have 210 calories and 4.5 grams of saturated fat.
So while the sugar-free has fewer calories, it is higher in saturated fat, which affects heart health. So the regular Reese's are the way to go.
A quarter-cup of Sun Maid Vanilla Yogurt Raisins has more fat and calories than two strips of Oscar Mayer America's Favorite Bacon.
Two bacon strips have 70 calories total, 6 grams of fat -- and only two of which are saturated. The vanilla yogurt-covered raisins have 130 calories and 5 grams of fat, four of which are saturated.
People often think that when they hear yogurt it's diet food. But in this case, it's high in saturated fat.
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