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FITNESS 2012 Healthy Food Awards: The Best Snacks

Healthy chips
Claire Benoist
 
The next time you crave something salty, veto the vending machine and reach for one of these "they taste too good to be good for you" snacks instead.

Best of the Crunch

Every once in a while (or every afternoon, if you're like some of us!) you just have to have a treat that's crunchy and salty but not greasy. To help you get your fix, we worked with our team of nutritionists to choose eight snacks -- after taste-testing dozens -- that are totally satisfying yet contain no more than 150 calories and eight grams of fat per serving. Gratification without the guilt? Consider it in the bag.

What Makes a Winner

Companies submitted more than 120 new salty snacks to FITNESS. Our experts -- Anar Allidina, RD, a dietitian in private practice in Toronto; Keri Gans, RD, the author of The Small Change Diet; and Marissa Lippert, RD, the author of The Cheater's Diet -- analyzed the ingredients and nutrition facts to help us determine which ones deserved to move to the next round of judging. Those finalists were sampled in blind taste tests and voted on by dozens of staffers throughout our company.

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kathleen_868849 wrote:

I like this article! Two things to make it better: an actual list we could print to take to the grocery and information about the sodium in each of these snacks.

4/28/2013 10:08:49 AM Report Abuse
allanceella wrote:

The snake is a kind of leisure food and there are many kinds. But i think making them by ourselves is better. Allance food machine supply practical and high-quality snake making machine.

3/6/2013 03:40:58 AM Report Abuse
1drema101 wrote:

It not fat..its carbs and effect on insulin and converted sugar from the process stripped down foods..these so call healthy snacks are not healthy..healthy foods include natural stuff.. whole foods..etc..not false claims..geeze no wonder we struggle with limited choices out there..

1/24/2013 01:13:36 AM Report Abuse
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