Halloween is filled with sugar-laden festivities — but it is possible to keep Trick-or-Treaters happy without a sugar overload! In today’s Love it, Like it, Hate it, we’ve got the best & worst of Halloween Treats!
LOVE IT!
Popcorn Snack Packs like Angie’s BoomChickaPop Sweet & Salty Kettle Corn
- Per pack: 70 calories – 9 grams carb – 1 gram fiber – 4 grams sugar
- Ingredients: popcorn, sunflower oil, dried cane sugar, sea salt
Annie’s Halloween Bunny Grahams
- Per Pack: 50 calories – 8 grams carb – 1 gram fiber – 3 grams sugar
- Ingredients: Whole grain wheat flour, wheat (white) flour, organic cane sugar, sunflower oil…
- Per bar: 140 calories – 22 grams carb – 3 grams fiber – 8 grams sugar
- Ingredients include: Brown rice flour, cane syrup, barley malt extract, whey protein concentrate, rice flour, tapioca syrup… organic coating, rolled oats…, peanut butter, oat flour, oat fiber, whey protein, pea protein…
Toys like Halloween-themed tattoos, slap-wrist bracelets, bubbles, vampire teeth – check out our NEXT GET THE SKINNY SEGMENT for more ideas!
LIKE IT!
Pretzel packs
- Per Pack: 50 calories – 12 grams carb – 0 fiber – 0 sugar
- First few ingredients: enriched (white) flour, water, salt
Pepperidge Farm Goldfish
- Per pack: 50 cals – 7 grams carb – 0 fiber – 0 sugar
- Ingredients include: white flour, cheddar cheese, vegetable oils, salt, yeast, sugar…
Baked chips & Sun Chips
- Most are either whole grain & fried, or baked but just white flour
Snickers with Almonds
- Per bar: 90 calories – 12 grams carb – 10 grams sugar
- Ingredients include sugar, cocoa butter, chocolate, corn syrup, almonds, sugar, palm oil…
HATE IT!
Pure-sugar candies like Starbursts, Skittles, Candy Corn, Laffy Taffy
- Typical ingredients: Sugar, corn syrup, hydrogenated oil, up to nine different artificial food colorings
“All natural” fruity-sugary candies like Fruit Snacks + “Organic” Gummy Snacks
Organic Gummy Bears
- Per pouch: 69 calories – 18 grams carbs – 15 grams sugar
- Ingredients include brown rice syrup, cane sugar, gelatin, fruit juice…
Welch’s Fruit Snacks
- Per pouch: 45 calories – 11 grams carbs – 6 grams sugar
Ingredients include fruit juice concentrates, corn syrup, sugar, modified corn starch, fruit purees… red #40, yellow #5, blue #1