Monday, February 8, 2010

What is 10 Calories?

The Candy Bowl...It's super easy to grab "just one piece." But what is that "one piece" (That might turn into 3 or 4...or 10)really worth in calories?
I found this list on Self.com that puts those "bites" into perspective. Some of them just might make you rethink dipping your hand into the candy bowl at all.


These are all worth 10 calories:
1 navel orange segment
1 Whopper
2 large strawberries
4 1/2 mini-marshmallows
1 Wheatables cracker
12 1/2 blueberries
1 1/2 almonds
2 1/2 Jelly Belly jelly beans
1 French onion SunChip
3 watermelon balls
3 Altoids mints
1 Austin Zoo animal cracker
9 Brach's Cinnamon Imperial Hearts
11 pieces shelled edamame (soybeans)
1 cashew half
1 dried pineapple piece
1 pecan half
1 Big Cheez-It Cracker
1 Tostitos Scoops! chip
1 gummi bear
1 large celery stick
1 Snyder's of Hanover honey mustard and onion pretzel nibbler
1/3 cup air-popped popcorn
1 Keebler mini vanilla wafer
4 Cheddar Goldfish crackers
2 Skittles
1 apple slice
2 1/2 pistachios
1 reduced-fat Pringle
4 Nestlé Toll House semisweet chocolate chips
20 roasted and salted soy nuts
10 Wheat Chex
2 1/2 baked Cheetos
42 Cheerios
3 cherry tomatoes
2 Fritos
1 shoestring french fry
1 peanut M&M
3 green or red grapes
1 1/2 Twizzlers black licorice bites
2 1/2 baby carrots
2 Teddy Grahams
3 plain M&M's
18 roasted and salted sunflower seeds
7 pieces Pirate's Booty
1 container tropical berry or strawberry-kiwi Jell-O sugar-free gelatin snack

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