Melt away health.They're not chocolate. They're not cream-filled. They're not huge. So you wouldn't expect Hickory Farms' Melt Away Mints to be worse than any other sugary, artificially colored and flavored candy. Ditto for the similar bulk-bin mints that seem to materialize in the supermarket every holiday season. You'd be wrong. Each serving (just seven mints) has 210 calories and 11 grams of saturated fat--more than half a day's worth. That's worse than a standard Baby Ruth, Butterfinger, Heath, Hershey Bar Noun 1. Hershey bar - a bar of milk chocolate made by the Hershey company chocolate bar - a bar of chocolate candy , Milky Way Milky Way, the galaxy of which the sun and solar system are a part, seen as a broad band of light arching across the night sky from horizon to horizon; if not blocked by the horizon, it would be seen as a circle around the entire sky. , Nestle Crunch, Snickers
Snickers is a sweet bar made by Mars, Incorporated. , 3 Musketeers, of nearly any other candy bar. The problem isn't chocolate. It's worse. After sugar, the second ingredient in the mints is partially hydrogenated palm kernel oil. Even non-hydrogenated palm kernel oil is 80 percent saturated. Hydrogenation hydrogenation (hīdrôj`ənā'shən, hī'drəjənā`shən), chemical reaction of a substance with molecular hydrogen, usually in the presence of a catalyst. adds both saturated and (if there's any room left) maybe some trans fat trans fat n. 1. A trans fatty acid. 2. Trans fatty acids considered as a group. trans fat A fat containing trans fatty acids. . Fats don't get much worse than palm kernel. If you like mints, try a bag of York Peppermint Patties. Three patties weigh about 1 1/2 ounces--just like the seven Melt Away Mints. But the patties have only 160 calories and two grams of sat fat. At least the York mints won't cost you a mint in health insurance. Hickory Farms: (800) 222-4438. |
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