Snack Nutrition Facts: Calories in Candy, Chips & Cookies

What are the true nutrition facts behind your favorite snacks? From the calorie counts in oatmeal raisin cookies to the surprising health risks of pine nut oil, understanding sugar types and chip ingredients is vital for a balanced diet.

High angle view of oil in a jar

Dangers of Siberian Pine Nut Oil

Siberian pine nut oil supplements are sold as cholesterol-lowering agents, appetite suppressants, immune-boosters and for their possible benefits in lowering blood pressure.

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Unhealthy Chocolate Cookies with Cream Filling

Nutritional Information for Oreo Cookies Without the Cream

Some 490 billion Oreo cookies have been sold since Nabisco introduced the sandwich cookie to the world in 1912.(See Reference 4) That adds up to nearly 2 trillion sugar and fat-laden calories consumed by fans who love to dunk, twist or simply much the popular cream-filled cookies.

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Christmas fruit cake

How Many Calories Are in Fruitcake?

You either love or despise fruitcake, but it’s almost always unavoidable around the holiday season. While recipes may vary slightly, dried fruits, roasted nuts, juice, butter, sugar and flour are universal ingredients in most any fruitcake recipe.

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How Many Calories in Mentos Candy?

Mentos candy originated in 1932 in the Netherlands. Whether the chew or gum variety, it has a crunchy outer layer and a chewy center. While the chews are meant to be swallowed like candy, you can the chew the gum to your heart's content.

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Nutritional Information for Pringles Chips

Pringles chips, sold in stores since 1968, are essentially made from dried potato flakes then shaped, stacked and stored in an airtight canister, which keeps the chips or “crisps” fresh. It takes three to four processed potatoes to pack a Pringles can.

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Red candy

Red Hots Candy Nutrition

Red Hots are cinnamon-flavored hard candies produced by the Ferrara Pan Candy Company. Although many people enjoy eating the candies straight from the package, the candies are also often used to flavor teas and baked goods or to decorate other food items.

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Slice of new york style cheesecake

The Calories in Cheesecake Factory Low-Carb Cheesecake

It's hard to go to The Cheesecake Factory and not get cheesecake. So, if you're counting carbs, you'll be happy to know that this chain restaurant offers a low-carb cheesecake so dieters can still enjoy what is otherwise the most off-limits of all decadent desserts.

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Freshly baked oatmeal raisin cookie

Are Oatmeal Raisin Cookies Healthy?

Cookies aren’t exactly healthy snacks. Although they do provide quick energy and contain some beneficial nutrients, the amounts of saturated fat and processed sugar in most cookies are enough to outweigh their nutritious qualities.

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Peppermint candies

Calories in Hard Candies

Hard candies come in an assortment of flavors, ranging from types of mint to fruit varieties to root beer and butterscotch. Despite the wide array of hard candies, many have very similar amounts of calories.

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Sliced banana bread with walnuts

How Many Calories in a Piece of Banana Bread?

Mashing up perfectly browned and sweetened bananas to use in your favorite banana bread recipe may make you think you’re getting a healthy treat. But once those bananas are mixed up with all the other ingredients and baked to a decadently sweet perfection, you’ll be getting a high-calorie piece of bread.

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Friends Lifting their Glasses and Celebrating in a Restaurant

The Calories in Natural Ice

Natural Ice is a low-cost beer that is sometimes referred to as "Natty Ice." The product is made by Anheuser-Busch and can be located in most stores that sell alcoholic beverages. Like most beers, Natural Ice beer is high in calories.

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Peanut butter

Calories in Wheat Toast With Peanut Butter

Peanut butter on whole wheat toast is a quick and easy snack that gives you a healthy combination of carbohydrates, protein and fat. Try eating a slice for breakfast the next time you're on the run, or eat this nutty treat for a late-afternoon snack.

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Fortune cookie

How Many Calories in a Fortune Cookie?

A fortune cookie is a thin wafer cookie that's crispy and slightly sweet. They're typically complimentary when you eat a Chinese restaurant or order Chinese takeout.

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colored hard candies

How Many Calories Are in Lifesaver Candies?

Life Savers, manufactured by Wrigley Company, are a sweet treat that has been around since 1912. There are over 40 flavors of the traditional hard candy with the first flavor being Pep-O-Mint. The hole-in-the-center candies are available in low-calorie sugar-free, traditional, and higher calorie gummy varieties.

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The Nutritional Facts for Nestle Chocolate Chips

In 1930, inn-owner Ruth Wakefield cut a bar of Nestle Semi-Sweet Chocolate into tiny pieces and added them to her cookie dough and then shared these cookies with her customers. After noticing the popularity of these cookies, Nestle Toll House introduced its Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chip Morsels in 1939.

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Oatmeal Fruit cookies

How Many Calories are in Oatmeal Raisin Cookies?

Oats are full of fiber, vitamins and minerals. But when you stir them up with butter, sugar, flour and eggs, those nutrient-dense oats fill up with calories. Your flavorful oat-filled treat can add way more calories to your diet than you may realize.

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Truffles and Fudge

How Many Calories Are in a Toffee Candy?

Toffee is a combination of sugar and butter. The manufacturer melts the sugar and mixes in the butter before allowing the mixture to cool. The calories in toffee come primarily from sugar.

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Calories in Black Tapioca Pearls

Black tapioca pearls are commonly used in bubble tea, also known as boba milk tea. The calories in this gelatinous food may contribute to your daily energy needs as well as help you meet your nutrition goals.

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Snickerdoodle

How Many Calories Are in Snickerdoodle Cookies?

The 2001 edition of the “Betty Crocker Cookbook” notes that snickerdoodle cookies originated in the New England region of the United States in the 1800s. The name, snickerdoodle, traces its origin to a New England tradition for assigning whimsical names to cookies.

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