KRON 4 | How to Healthify Your Halloween

Halloween parties, potlucks, and trick-or-treating can break even the most disciplined health enthusiasts, but here are my favorite tips to survive this annual sugar fest.

Sugar Content in Candy from Scariest to Less Scary

Refined sugars are the #1 aging food. Your own blasts of circulation blood sugar are one of the key suspects of cell deterioration (aging). These glucose molecules cling to proteins like collagen, resulting in a stiff, aging, less functional body.

Brace yourself when you see how much sugar is in your favorite Halloween candy. It’s enough to age your skin, muscles (including your heart muscle), blood vessels, tendons, and joints. If you want do de-age your face, brain, and body, ditch the candy. Here are the scary facts…

Rank	Product Name	Sugar Content per 100 Grams (3.5 oz)	Teaspoons of Sugar
1	Nerds Candy	93	23.25
2	Sour Patch Kids	80	20.00
3	Swedish Fish	77	19.25
4	Candy Corn	74	18.5
5	Skittles (Original)	73	18.25
6	Sugar Babies	73	18.25
7	Sweet Tarts	73	18.25
8	Charms Blow Pops	72	18
9	Werther’s Candies	69	17.25
10	Dum Dum Pop	69	17.25
11	Air Head	69	17.25
12	3 Musketeers	67	16.75
13	York Peppermint Pattie	67	16.75
14	Tootsie Roll Pop	65	16.25
15	M&Ms (Original)	63	15.75
16	Rolo Candy	63	15.75
17	Heath Bar	61	15.25
18	Mars Bar	61	15.25
19	Jolly Ranchers	61	15.25
20	Toblerone Bar	61	15.25
21	Mike and Ike	60	15
22	Milky Way Bar	59	14.75
23	Laffy Taffy	59	14.75
24	Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Bar	58	14.5
25	Nestle Crunch Bar	58	14.5
26	Whoppers	57	14.25
27	Hershey’s Kisses	56	14
28	Dove Milk Chocolate Bar	56	14
29	Starbursts	55	13.75
30	Kit Kat	54	13.5
31	Baby Ruth Bar	54	13.5
32	Hershey’s Dark Chocolate Bar	54	13.5
33	Reese’s Pieces	53	13.25
34	Salt Water Taffy	53	13.25
35	Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup	52	13
36	Peanut M&M’s	52	13
37	Snickers Bar	52	13
38	100 Grand Bar	52	13
39	Tootsie Roll	52	13
40	Hershey’s Krackel Bar	51	12.75
41	Twix Bar	50	12.5
42	Andres Chocolate Mints	50	12.5
43	Mr. Goodbar	50	12.5
44	Funables Fruit Snacks	50	12.5
45	Ring Pop	50	12.5
46	Dove Dark Chocolate Bar	47	11.75
47	Almond Joy	47	11.75
48	Haribo Goldbears	47	11.75
49	Sour Punch Twists	47	11.75
50	Mounds Bar	44	11
51	Whatchamacallit Bar	44	11
52	Twinkie	42	10.5
53	Butterfinger	41	10.25
54	Red Vines	40	10
55	Twizzlers	38	9.5