4 Healthy Candy Alternatives to Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth
We’ve just passed one of the biggest “candy” days of the year in the United States – Halloween. But even if you managed to dodge that dietwrecking bullet, get ready for more coming your way. The winter holiday season is upon us … complete with peppermint bark, chocolates, and candy canes (1.8 billion candy canes are made each season). Once the season’s sweets are behind us, up comes Valentine’s Day … Easter (Easter candy sales make up 28 percent of total U.S. candy sales each year) … and the list goes on and on. Not to imply that holidays are the only days Americans eat candy … 50 percent of Americans surveyed (and 55 percent of those with kids in the house) said they eat 10 or more servings of candy each month. You’re probably aware that candy isn’t healthy … but if you’ve got a sweet tooth you give in to more than you’d like to admit, you should know that some candy might be worse than others. The sweets that follow are among the worst, unhealthiest candies on the market.