Making healthy Halloween candy choices can be a scary proposition. After all, the miniature-sized, chocolate-covered bites can’t be all bad, can they? The answer depends on how many bite-sized morsels you eat and the surprising number of calories and fat jammed into those little pieces. We are not trying to suck the fun out of Halloween but we thought you might want to compare some tricky treats! We looked at calories and fat for our comparisons.
Good choice
Dum-Dum Pop: 25 calories, 0 grams fat
Peeps Ghost: 28 calories, 0 grams fat
Smarties candy roll: 25 calories, 0 grams fat
Tootsie Roll Midgee: 23 calories, .5 grams fat
Laffy Taffy miniature: 30 calories: .4 grams fat
Twizzler Strawberry Twist (individually wrapped): 40-47 calories, .4 grams fat
Bad choice
Butterfinger Pumpkin: 160 calories, 8 grams fat
Candy Corn (about 22 pieces) 140 calories, 0 grams fat
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup: 88 calories, 5 grams fat
Skittles (fun pack): 60 calories, .6 grams fat
Reese’s Nutrageous (fun size): 95 calories, 5.5 grams fat
Almond Joy (fun size) 91 calories, 5.5 grams fat
Snickers (fun size) 72 calories, 3.7 grams fat
