Popcorn: The Best Snack?
Who among us don’t like popcorn? Young & old people enjoy watching movies with a bucket of popcorn plus fueled by some cans of soda…hmmm, yummy! Especially, if it’s cheese flavored popcorn! But do you know much about popcorn? Well, here are some things about your fave snack:
Popcorn is crunchy, tasty and has fewer kilojoules than other snacks (about 0.37 kilojoules for three cups). It has fibre and virtually no fat when you pop it in a hot-air popper. But movie popcorn is a different story! It may be popped in palm or coconut oil (both saturated fats), and the average small bag has 1.67 kilojoules, with 27 grams of fat. Added butter almost doubles the fat and adds another 1.04 kilojoules.
Microwave popcorn isn’t much better. Even those “lighter versions” may be heavy in fat, kilojoules and sodium. But the best choices are Healthy Choice, Newman’s Own Light Butter and Orville Redenbacher’s Natural Light. Each has three grams of fat or less for three cups of popped corn.
So, careful with the kind of POPCORN that you’re eating…we don’t wanna have a heart attack here, eh?
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