Fitness Foodie Facts Friday 10/31

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

In honor of Halloween, today's fitness foodie facts is going to be dedicated to candy! What is your favorite candy? Mine are Reeses, I don't have much of a sweet tooth but I will inhale anything with peanut butter and chocolate. Peanut butter M&M's yeah I will take all of those too. Have you ever heard of the book series Eat This, Not That? Well the author of that series has compiled a list for Halloween candy

WORST “FUN SIZE” CANDY BAR: Butterfinger

100 calories, 4 g fat, 2 g saturated fat, 10 g sugar

Many candy bars are high in sugar. Many are high in fat. But Butterfinger has magical ability to be high in both. Adding even one “fun size” Butterfinger to your food intake every day is enough to add more than 10 pounds to your body in the next year. There’s nothing fun about that.

Eat This Instead: 3 Musketeers

63 calories, 2 g fat, 1.5 g saturated fat, 10 g sugar

WORST CLASSIC FRUIT CANDY: Brach’s Airheads (3)

140 calories, 1.5 g fat, 1 g saturated fat, 19 g sugar

Here’s the basic formula for an Airhead: Sugar and filler carbohydrates, artificial colors and flavors, and partially hydrogenated oils—the source of trans fat. Dum Dums might not be nutritional paragons, but they do have two noteworthy advantages over Airheads:  1. No heart-wrecking oils, and 2. They’re made from hard candy. That means they dissolve slowly on your tongue, letting you enjoy the sweetness over time and preventing you from feverishly tearing through Airheads. Cool Dum Dum Halloween trick: Wrap each in a white tissue, secure with a small rubber band, and have the kids draw faces on these “ghosts” to hand out to the neighborhood trick or treaters.

Eat This Instead: Spangler Dum Dum Pops (3)
60 calories, 0 g fat, 11 g sugar

WORST MINIATURE CANDY BARS: Twix Miniatures (3)

150 calories, 7 g fat, 4 g saturated, 15 g sugar

Twix has the worst saturated fat profile of any candy in your kid’s trick-or-treat bag. Think about it like this: Each serving of these bite-sized candies carries 20 percent of the saturated fat you should consume in an entire day. Switch to Tootsie Rolls and you’ll cut your calories by more than half and trim your total fat intake by a whopping 79 percent. (Better yet, treat yourself to some quality dark chocolate. It’s one of 8 Fatty Foods That Actually Make You Skinny and the intense flavor will give you your chocolate fix in fewer calories.)

Eat This Instead: Tootsie Rolls (3)
70 calories, 1.5 g fat, 0.5 g saturated fat, 9.5 g sugar

WORST SEASONALLY THEMED CANDY: Reese’s Pumpkin

170 calories, 10 g fat, 3 g saturated fat, 16 g sugar

This one should send your gimmick radar into the red zone. If it were flavored with pumpkin puree that would be one thing, but it’s not. It’s an oversized peanut butter cup shaped in a pumpkin-like mold. And what price do you pay for such fanciful novelty? Nearly two-thirds more calories than a regular Reese’s peanut butter cup. If you want to create a festive atmosphere, stick with Candy Corn and you’ll save yourself the calorie hangover.

Eat This Instead: Brach’s Candy Corn (11)
81 calories, 0 g fat, 16 g sugar

These are just a few that are on the list, the complete list can be found here https://www.yahoo.com/health/the-best-and-worst-halloween-candy-100859905028.html and now that I have ruined our halloween (You noticed reeses are on the list TWICE, right?) Hope you all have a good night.