Sweat the small stuff!
Even the teeniest of treats can be diet killers
Since people buy more candy around Halloween than at any other time of the year, you may notice store shelves filled with
goodies you don’t see very often, including some candy that you enjoyed as a kid. If you use these sweets as a seasonal replacement
for your usual snacks, how many can you eat without overdoing it? To find out, we checked how these candies would stack up
if they came in 100-calorie snack packs, as chips, cookies, and crackers do.
Size often dictates how many you can consume, which makes perfect sense. Although you can eat far fewer Twizzlers than Jujubes for 100 calories, those treats are about 8 inches long, and each Jujube is roughly the size of a large peppercorn. Sometimes ingredients, not size, dictate calorie count. You can eat many more Good & Plenty treats than Hot Tamales, for example, although they’re roughly the same size. And who would’ve thought good old Mary Janes were so darn fattening?
For 100 calories you can eat ...
7 1/5 Charleston Chew Minis
16 1/2 Mike and Ikes
33 1/3 Red Hots
20 Lemonheads
25 2/5 Good & Plenty
16 Candy Corn
9 1/2 Junior Mints
50 Jujubes
3 1/8 Mary Janes
2 2/3 Twizzlers
Find more on chocolate, popcorn and other forbidden fruits in the October/November issue of ShopSmart, available now! Can't find ShopSmart in your local bookstore? Order it online or call our toll-free number to get your copy now.
Size often dictates how many you can consume, which makes perfect sense. Although you can eat far fewer Twizzlers than Jujubes for 100 calories, those treats are about 8 inches long, and each Jujube is roughly the size of a large peppercorn. Sometimes ingredients, not size, dictate calorie count. You can eat many more Good & Plenty treats than Hot Tamales, for example, although they’re roughly the same size. And who would’ve thought good old Mary Janes were so darn fattening?
For 100 calories you can eat ...
7 1/5 Charleston Chew Minis
16 1/2 Mike and Ikes
33 1/3 Red Hots
20 Lemonheads
25 2/5 Good & Plenty
16 Candy Corn
9 1/2 Junior Mints
50 Jujubes
3 1/8 Mary Janes
2 2/3 Twizzlers
(Photos by David Lewis Taylor)
Find more on chocolate, popcorn and other forbidden fruits in the October/November issue of ShopSmart, available now! Can't find ShopSmart in your local bookstore? Order it online or call our toll-free number to get your copy now.
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