Re: what's the healthiest candy you can usually find in your typical supermarket aisle?
The darkest chocolate you can stomach.
As for traditional candy; pretzel m&m's probably have the fewest calories (150?) per bag, but peanut m&m's have at least some value without a crazy amount of calories.
Re: what's the healthiest candy you can usually find in your typical supermarket aisle?
dark chocolate still has a huge amount of saturated fat due to the cocoa butter content.
in the end that may or may not turn out to be alright, so for now i've totally cut out dark chocolate and just go with cocoa powder in drinks. you can replace the yumminess of the missing fat content with skim milk, soy milk, etc.
dark chocolate-covered almonds are just about the healthiest candy i can think of offhand, but a little hard to find.
Re: what's the healthiest candy you can usually find in your typical supermarket aisle?
If you are going to bother to eat candy you shouldn't really be worrying about health. Frankly I've never cared much for candy, chocolate especially, though I do like chocolate covered peanuts and pretzels because the of salty and sweet goes well.
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Originally Posted by gigantes
dark chocolate still has a huge amount of saturated fat due to the cocoa butter content.
in the end that may or may not turn out to be alright, so for now i've totally cut out dark chocolate and just go with cocoa powder in drinks. you can replace the yumminess of the missing fat content with skim milk, soy milk, etc.
dark chocolate-covered almonds are just about the healthiest candy i can think of offhand, but a little hard to find.
I contest that the sugar is the issue, not the cocoa butter. The darker the chocolate, the less sugar usually.
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I contest that the sugar is the issue, not the cocoa butter. The darker the chocolate, the less sugar usually.
AFAIK the cocoa butter content stays in the same area no matter how the sugar / cocoa solids change. if you compare a sugary milk chocolate bar with a 70%+ dark chocolate bar, the sat fat content is sky high in both.
that said, i definitely agree that keeping the darkness up and the sugar down is the way to go.
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Originally Posted by Smoke117
If you are going to bother to eat candy you shouldn't really be worrying about health. Frankly I've never cared much for candy, chocolate especially, though I do like chocolate covered peanuts and pretzels because the of salty and sweet goes well.
combining salty and sweet is the best thing ever - especially using chocolate for the sweet.
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Originally Posted by gigantes
AFAIK the cocoa butter content stays in the same area no matter how the sugar / cocoa solids change. if you compare a sugary milk chocolate bar with a 70%+ dark chocolate bar, the sat fat content is sky high in both.
that said, i definitely agree that keeping the darkness up and the sugar down is the way to go.
I definitely think it's the sugar. Saturated fats, when coming from healthy, non-crap sources, are incredibly important for promoting healthy hormone production and, as counterintuitive as media and medical companies have made it out to be, heart health.
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I definitely think it's the sugar. Saturated fats, when coming from healthy, non-crap sources, are incredibly important for promoting healthy hormone production and, as counterintuitive as media and medical companies have made it out to be, heart health.
not disputing. i would just eat those healthy sat fats in moderation.
sugar- definitely. i've cut out all refined sugar from my diet and i do feel better.
what's the healthiest candy you can usually find in your typical supermarket aisle?
