How Unhealthy Is Easter Candy?
Easter candy isn't healthy for you. Also, the sun is hot.
You know Easter candy (or any candy for that matter) isn't good for you, but how unhealthy is it? Newsweek gives an overview of the nutritional information of eight popular Easter candies. For instance, eat four Peeps and you've got 32 grams of sugar in your belly. Eat a Reese's Peanut Butter Egg and you'll add 10 grams of fat to your system. Eat any candy and you'll probably eat more sugar and/or fat than you're supposed to. Will any of these nutrition facts cause you to eat less Easter candy? I know I'll still mindlessly dip into the bag of jelly beans on my desk.
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14 Comments:
Wait. WHAT are the flavors of those Jelly Bellys in the pictures above? Baby Wipes? Toothpaste...did I miss something?
inothernews at 10:24AM on 04/08/09
@inothernews: Haha, yes those were some...uh...gross flavors they were marketing at a candy event I went to. I'm not sure if I tried any of them.
roboppy at 10:27AM on 04/08/09
@inothernews: the Harry Potter Jelly Belly flavors were:
EARWAX, BACON, DIRT, SPINACH, GRASS, BOOGER, SARDINE, BLACK PEPPER, ROTTEN EGG, EARTHWORM, SOAP, and SPAGHETTI. And, everyone's favorite VOMIT!
ps I'm not yelling its just a lazy cut and paste.
bobbob at 10:34AM on 04/08/09
Don't really care. Hey Dove!!! Where are those truffle eggs you used to make a few years ago?? Bring 'em back!
lambowner at 10:40AM on 04/08/09
I love Cadbury Creme Eggs but I have now met *two* people who have found a worm in them...
emilydev at 10:42AM on 04/08/09
@emilydev - no! Please tell me thats not true. I'll never be able to bite into one again!
Baking and Mistaking
cool2bars at 11:00AM on 04/08/09
a worm? gross. altho, i find those things pretty gross anyway, all on their own.
newsweek were probably proponents of cookie monster saying cookies are a sometimes food too...of course candy's unhealthy for you. it's what makes it so tasty. indulging once a year...or at least until halloween is a-ok by me.
gastronomeg at 11:05AM on 04/08/09
Shocking that candy is bad for you! My very favorite candies are Cadbury Mini Eggs and Creme Eggs and I eat them pretty constantly from February to April. But I had to take a break recently because I noticed my habit was affecting my weight! Still, I'll go back soon enough. I loves me my Easter candy, regardless of nutritional value.
emgroff at 11:37AM on 04/08/09
The next thing they will say is that caffeine is bad for you, or bacon is bad for you. Wait, they already do say that. If I'm going to die, I want to enjoy the foods I love. Calories and fat be damned!
fatitalianbroad at 11:55AM on 04/08/09
What! candy has fat and sugar in them!!! I was always of the assumption candy was a healthy part of my diet :-P (no wonder i used to weigh 210 pounds)
Edwardkimuk at 1:10PM on 04/08/09
When I saw this, I thought: " That is so information I don't need to know". But of course I checked the article out anyway and I was actually surprised to find out it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. Sure a Cadbury Creme egg is good for 150 calories, but they are so sweet that one goes a looooonnnnnng way! (And I love every messy minute of it!)
smallblondemom at 1:27PM on 04/08/09
It's pretty discouraging to see that a serving of some chocolates has 30 or even 40% of your daily saturated fat needs. I know my tendency to eat a lot, so I tend to avoid the candies that have nutrition facts that make me cringe the most.
runnereater at 1:34PM on 04/08/09
I'm sorry but no one can eat four peeps in a row without going in to a sugar induced coma. No worries there!
GretchinF at 3:55PM on 04/08/09
Actually, I don't give a flying Cadbury Egg about fat content, or sugar content, given that 150 calories is a pretty reasonable amount for a treat--provided you don't eat only Easter candy, for the next 40 days. Heck, even one day of all Easter candy once a year isn't that bad.
A girl I knew in college was Peeps obsessed and used to pretty much survive finaly on Peeps, coffee, and Snapple. She was thin, but I hate Peeps and just thinking of eating only that sugary, non-protein based stuff makes me head-achy.
HeartofGlass at 5:53AM on 04/09/09