10 Healthy (and 10 Terrible!) Vending Machine Snacks

It's crunch time, and the snack machine is whispering your name. Pushing the wrong buttons could be a diet disaster -- so check out our top 10 nutritional nightmares, and the 10 smartest snacks.

Guilty Pleasures

These 10 snacks top our "just-don't-do-it" list. Most are packed with sugar, fat, and calories. Check out what you should avoid -- and then choose from our smart snack options instead.

The Worst Pick

1. Drake's Apple Fruit Pie
440 calories, 27g fat, 7g sat fat, 8g trans fat
The Bottom Line: Nutritional nightmare

Second Worst

2. Austin Cheese Crackers with Cheddar Cheese
210 calories, 10g fat, 2g sat fat, 4g trans fat
The Bottom Line: A trans fat fest

Other Guilty Pleasures

3. Pop-Tarts Frosted Strawberry
420 calories, 10g fat, 2.5g sat fat, 40g sugar
The Bottom Line: For sharing only

4. Doritos
250 calories, 13g fat, 2.5g sat fat, 2g fiber
The Bottom Line: "Nacho" best option

5. Skittles
250 calories, 2.5g fat, 2.5g sat fat
The Bottom Line: More calories and fat than Twizzlers

6. Cheez-It Baked Snack Crackers (27)
160 calories, 8g fat, 2g sat fat
The Bottom Line: No fiber, no protein

7. Ruffles Original
160 calories, 10g fat, 3g sat fat
The Bottom Line: Nothing but empty calories

8. Cheetos Crunchy
160 calories, 10g fat, 1.5g sat fat
The Bottom Line: Not great, but could be worse

9. Twix
280 calories, 14g fat, 11g sat fat
The Bottom Line: More "bad" fat than a Snickers

10. 3 Musketeers
260 calories, 8g fat, 5g sat fat, 40g sugar
The Bottom Line: Lower fat, but still candy

Nutritional information is for contents of entire package, unless otherwise noted.

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Comments ( 3 )
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tsammons2 wrote:

I see you have yet to experience Big Texas ("Tex"). Nothing says colonic cleanse like "Tex" surging through your duodenum like a Jamaican bobsled team...

1/28/2010 03:08:23 AM Report Abuse
huntingmom44 wrote:

Well, how about listing the 10 best vending machine picks? My hunting club offers sun chips,assorted nuts/seeds,health bars, and jerky. How about doing a listing on these choices? Thanks.

12/26/2009 07:11:31 PM Report Abuse
sandabaskin wrote:

I am sorry, but you missed the truly best vending machine snack of all time: Fiber Gourmet Lite Cheese snacks- a FULL bag of cheese snacks, notlike those tiny air-filled 100-calorie packs, and it has 11g of fiber, and only 50 CALORIES!!If they don't have it in vending machines near you, look it up on fibergourmet.com

12/21/2009 09:46:31 AM Report Abuse

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