I recently read this article in Shape Magazine on the worst snacks for your body. I was actually surprised by a couple of the snacks...2 of the 10 were actually "fruit". I'll recap for you, but I highly recommend reading the article for yourself.
1. Canned Fruit: Loaded with excess sugar and has a much lower nutrient content than frozen fruit and veggies. Also, the chemical used to preserve the canned good is actually toxic :/
2.Potato Chips: Well, yeah. I'm not even going to elaborate on this one.
3. Rice Cakes: Low on calories and nutrients. Made from processed white rice, which is a high blood pressure spiking carb.
4. Blueberry Muffins: Don't let the fruit fool you, a muffin is basically a cupcake without the frosting. Make muffins a treat not an everyday snack.
5. Granola Bars: Usually filled with processed carbs and dried fruit (yup, even thats bad) and held together with some type of sugar (i.e. honey or agave). High in calories and low in filling fiber :(
6. Honey Roasted/Salted Nuts: Sugar, fat, salt and easy to overeat.
7. Yogurt w/ fruit on the bottom: High sugar fruit mixture...defeates the purpose of being good and eating yogurt. Try greek yogurt instead :)
8. Microwave Popcorn: Processed carbs, salt, trans fat, and chemicals coating the inside of the bag.
9. Dried Fruit: Dried fruit is just regular fruit that has the moisture taken from it and shrunken down. So eating 7 dried apricots is like eating all the sugar in 7 regular apricots. I can't believe I never thought of this before.
10. Diet Soda: Finally one that is obvious again. Diet soda can deplete calcium from your bones and is full of artificial sweetener. Steer clear of all soda.
Just to keep this from being too depressing for all the dried fruit popcorn lovers like myself, HERE are 10 summer snack under 200 calories :)
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