Follow our advice on the “healthiest” Halloween candy (if you can even call it that), to add to the nutritional content of your Halloween festivities! Veuer’s Chloe Hurst has the story!
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00:00It's candy time for trick-or-treaters, which means you should probably invest
00:04in a very good toothbrush and walk as far as you can to people's front doors for exercise.
00:10Or you could follow our advice on the healthiest Halloween candy,
00:14if you can even call it that, to add to the nutritional content of your Halloween festivities.
00:19According to USA Today, Peanut M&M's take the cake as the healthiest Halloween candy.
00:25You're getting at least a little more substance than just corn syrup.
00:28Peanut M&M's contain a little less than one gram of fiber,
00:32two grams of protein, and nine grams of sugar.
00:35And they are also made of mostly milk chocolate.
00:38Rose Britt, a registered dietitian with Top Nutrition Coaching says,
00:42It's not a whole balance, but it will give us a little more sense of fullness
00:46compared to our traditional straight sugar-type candies.
00:50Basically, candy with nuts is your healthiest option.
00:53They might make you a little nuts, but certainly less nuts than the sugary sweets.
00:58You're getting at least a little more sense of fullness compared to our traditional straight sugar-type candies.