How to have a Trans-Fat-Free Halloween! & Why Halloween is Corny

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If you're looking to avoid trans fats, avoid the following candies, but feel free to partake in the second list.

Typical Halloween candies which contain trans fats (partially or fully hydrogenated oil):

• Air Heads
• Almond Joy
• Baby Ruth
• Butterfinger
• Charleston Chew
• Kit Kat
• Milky Way
• PayDay
• Reese's / Reese's Pieces
• Skittles
• Snickers
• Starbursts
• Twix
• Three Musketeers
• Tootsie Rolls

Out of the above, Tootsie Rolls, Starbursts, and Skittles are probably the worst. Their main ingredients are sugar, corn syrup, and a trans fat -- partially hydrogenated soybean oil in Tootsies and hydrogenated palm kernel oil in Starbursts and Skittles. At least the others have cocoa as part of a main ingredient, and often, nuts, which are moderately healthy. (Moderately, because they're still swimmin' in sugar.:)

Out of the above, judging by ingredients listings, Almond Joy probably has the least trans fat per serving. Hooray?

The following are trans-fat-free, but palm oil and high fructose corn syrup are still possibilities. However, most of these don't contain HFCS, a pleasant surprise.

Typical Halloween candies that DON'T contain trans fats:

• 100 Grand (does contain HFCS)
• Blow Pops
• Candy corn
• Crunch
• Dots
• Hershey (plain)
• Jolly Rancher
• Jujyfruits
• Junior Mints
• Life Savers
• M&M's
• Pop Rocks
• Peanut M&M's ("allergen warning: may contain peanuts" lol)
• Sour Patch Kids
• SweeTarts
• Toblerone
• Warheads

However, Crunch bars contain POLYGLYCEROL POLYRICINOLEATE, which is not really something you want either. (Google it.) That's ok, since I personally think Crunch bars taste like something Cap'n Crunch pooped.
As for gummis (gummi bears, gummi worms, gummi HAMBURGERS?! etc), there are so many different brands and they all have slightly different ingredients, so you're on your own there. ;)

Also, keep in mind that ALL of these candies are made from corn.Okay, that's not the way to say it -- they all contain ingredients which are DERIVED from corn. If you find that kind of thing interesting (I do).
But basically, corn, you guys. So much corn.

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