Every Halloween I put out a quiz or information regarding all the calories and sugar found in our favourite candy. This year is no different! Take the quiz and see how much you know about the Halloween candy you are tempted by. Answers are posted at the end of the quiz.
1. Which one has fewer calories:
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
Reese's Peanut Butter Pumpkins
2. Which one has fewer calories:
Skittles Mini-Pack Skittles
Riddles Mini-Pack
3. Which one has fewer calories:
Hershey's Miniature
Krackel bar
Hershey's Miniature
Mr. Goodbar
4. Which one has fewer calories:
Fun-size Mounds bar
Fun-size Almond Joy
5. Which one has the fewest calories:
A roll of Pez
Smarties
SweetTarts
6. Which one has fewer calories:
Brach's Candy Corn
Brach's Mellowcreme Pumpkins
7. Which one has fewer calories:
Fun-size Butterfinger
Fun-size Butterfinger Pumpkins
8. Which one has fewer calories:
Snickers Miniatures
Tootsie Roll Midgees
9. Which one has fewer calories:
Fun-size Nestlé Crunch
Fun-size Nestlé Crunch Pumpkin
10. Which one has fewer calories:
Fun-size Baby Ruth bar
Snack-size PayDay bar
11. Which one has the fewest calories:
Fun-size Twix Caramel Cookie Bar
Fun-size Snickers bar Snack-size
Kit Kat bar
12. Which one has less sugar:
Mini Laffy Taffy
Pixy Stix
13. Which one has fewer calories:
Starburst Fruit Chews
Starburst GummiBursts
14. Which one has fewer calories:
One box of Milk Duds Candy
One box of Junior Mints
15. Which one has fewer calories:
Hershey's Pumpkin Spice Kisses
Hershey's Milk Chocolates Kisses
16. Which one has fewer calories:
Milky Way Midnight Minis
Milky Way Minis
17. Which of these is most harmful to your teeth:
Whoppers Milk Chocolate Malted Milk Balls
Dots
Twizzlers
Sour Patch Kids
18. Which hard candy has fewer calories:
Werther's Original Creamy Caramel Filled
Apple Caramel Filled
19. Which of these has fewer calories:
Reese's Pieces snack-size candy
Fun-size Peanut Butter M&M's
20. True or false:
It's better to break off pieces from a regular-size candy bar than buy the fun-size version.
ANSWERS:
1. Reese's Peanut Butter Pumpkins
Stick with the Halloween version. The pumpkin cup has 90 calories each. A regular Reese's Peanut Butter Cup has 105 calories.
2. Skittles Mini-Pack
Three mini-packs of regular Skittles have 180 calories. Compare that to three mini-packs of Skittles Riddles, which have 190 calories.
3. They have the same amount of calories.
According to Hershey's, both the miniature Krackel and Mr. Goodbar have 42 calories each.
4. They have the same amount of calories.
Even though you might think that Almond Joy is higher in calories because it has almonds, they both have 80 calories per fun-size bar.
5. Smarties
If you want a healthier Halloween treat, stick with Smarties. One roll has just 25 calories. Pez comes in as a close second at 35 calories. One serving of SweetTarts has 50 calories.
6. Candy Corn
Regular candy corn is actually healthier. One piece of triangle-shaped candy corn has about 11 calories, while the pumpkin-shaped candy corn has 28 calories each.
7. Butterfinger Pumpkins
In this case, stick with the Halloween variety. One fun-size Butterfinger Pumpkin has 80 calories, while the fun-size Butterfinger bar has 100 calories.
8. Tootsie Roll Midgees
One Snickers Miniatures has about 42 calories. One Tootsie Roll Midgee is only 23 calories. But Tootsie Rolls are high in sugar; just one Midgee has about 3 grams.
9. Nestlé Crunch
At 1.2 ounces, the fun-size Nestlé Crunch "Pumpkin Singles" have 170 calories each, compared to the .45-ounce fun-size Nestlé Crunch at 60 calories each.
10. Baby Ruth
This one is really close! The fun-size Baby Ruth bar has 85 calories, and the snack-size PayDay bar has 90.
11. Kit Kat
Go with the Kit Kat bar. The snack size has 70 calories. A fun-size Snickers has 80 calories and the Twix has 125 calories.
12. Pixy Stix
Pixy Stix only have 2 grams of sugar per straw. Mini Laffy Taffy, however, has 4.2 grams of sugar.
13. Starburst GummiBursts
GummiBursts have only 14 calories per piece. Fruit Chews have 20 calories a piece.
14. Junior Mints
If you want to reach for a chewy chocolate snack, you're better off grabbing a handful of Junior Mints. One box has 170 calories. Milk Duds have 230 calories per box.
15. Milk Chocolate
This one was a really close call, but the milk chocolate variety wins the prize. A single Hershey's Kiss has about 22 calories, and the pumpkin version has 23 calories.
16. Milky Way Midnight Minis
Dark chocolate wins this competition. The Midnight Minis have 36 calories a piece while the original ones have 38 calories.
17. Sour Patch Kids
Sour Patch Kids are probably the most harmful of the above. Candy manufacturers add more acids--or different kinds of acid--to sour candy varieties to give them that pucker factor. And it's those "tangy" acids that can create deep craters in your tooth enamel.
18. Caramel Apple Filled
Stick with the fall variety. The candies filled with caramel apple have 25 calories each, while the candies filled with just caramel have 30 calories a piece.
19. Reese's Pieces
While these tasty Halloween treats are similar, Reese's Pieces snack-size candy is the winner with 70 calories per pack. Peanut Butter M&Ms have 95 calories per fun-size pack.
20. TRUE
This is true. Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics researchers found that when people were offered 20 halves of candy pieces vs. 20 full pieces, the half-pieces satisfied them with only half the calories. The lesson? Nibbling a few bites from a regular-sized bar may save you more calories than eating a whole, smaller bar--and still leave your sweet-tooth satisfied. *Quiz courtesy https://www.sharecare.com/health/holiday-health/quizzes/halloween-candy