<div class="block">With Halloween being the year&#39;s biggest candy consumption holiday, we still want our viewers to be healthy. Fitness instructor Cory Rodgriguez joined &#39;beWell&#39; to share a few healthy candy options.</div>

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Be Well: Healthy Candy Options

So obviously this bag here in the front is like the don't right. It's not even though they're all I wanna do, it's the standard bag. You know, candy is not going to be the greatest choice by any means when you're buying this type of candy, if you wanted the lower calorie option, not the healthiest. Then regular candy, as opposed to chocolate will have less calories because it has no fat and protein. And is it good to get like these super small sizes? And then just say like, ok, yes, you can indulge but just do it like this. Yeah, there's a big difference between having a bite size and having an entire bar. So of course you want to try to find some moderation in there. Ok. So then I'll eat this now and that way I'll do the right thing later. But am I lying to myself? Like this one has peanut butter? So like is that kind of a protein? Right? There's a little bit of protein but the amount is quite small but it is some. Ok. Now what about these candy corns? These are popular around this time of year? What can you say about those, those are pretty much the highest sugar content candy that I have found in any bag and they have a ton of dyes in them. So it's probably one of the not so great options and they get caught in your teeth too. That's one of the things we really have to be careful about this time of the year is all the dyes and artificial flavors they put in these candies as well, right? In large amounts. Hey, protein. OK. OK. Now why do you have these here? Because I'm definitely not giving these to trick or treater if, if you wanted some choices for your uh for your home that have some uh that are made of better ingredient if they slow calories and sugar, but they are made from organic ingredients and they have some more real food ingredients. Then these two brands are good choices which is yum earth and unreal. So they have, they have less sugar. Yeah, a little bit less sugar and better overall ingredients. Not as many dyes and kind of like real food ingredients, right? Because on this bag, it says colors from nature. So that way you don't have all of those artificial things. Exactly. And so we look for some of these facts on the back like it says it's gluten free, it's vegan, no GM things like that when trying to pick a healthier option if you have a certain specificity in your diet that you wanna try to go to these options, give you a little bit more of that than your standard choice and then I feel like buy these at the same time. So you don't open this bag and if you need to, if you have that craving, then you have that something that's like a little bit better. Exactly. Ok. So what do we have here with the chocolate? So chocolate, it's good to know that if you want the healthiest option, dark chocolate is going to have the antioxidants that are so beneficial. The flavonoids milk chocolate is going to have much less of that and more sugar. So you're not going to have as good of an option with the milk chocolate that tastes so much better. Ok. That's why white chocolate fans like myself. It's not actually chocolate. There's no cocoa in it. So it's mainly sugar, milk cream. It might taste good, but there's really no hard benefits in there like you'd have in the dark chocolate. Even the milk chocolate will have more than the white, white chocolate is not chocolate. I thought I was doing better. Why are you making news right here? I know that I was eight years old when I found that out. All right now my kids love these fish and worm type of chewy things. What do you say about those? So, like I said in the beginning, there's no fat, there's no protein, but there's a lot of sugar. So if you wanted a lower sugar option, these smart sweets are a newer company. They use fiber instead of sugar and it does still taste fairly sweet. So they are a way better option when you're looking at that fiber, sugar, yeah, they actually remove the fiber and they're able to use it in place of sugar. Don't think fiber like oatmeal. But when you take out some of like the fibers and you put them in a gelatin like this, they actually can be quite sweet. But how do they taste? They're actually pretty good. They're pretty good. They might not taste exactly the same, but they are, they are pretty sweet as well, you know. Right. That's it. I haven't tried this, this type yet. It is not as chewy when you like. It's a little different. Yeah, they have like peach rings. I've tried those. I haven't tried the, uh Swedish fish like comparison. This isn't healthy though. Um, I mean, it's not gonna be like having a whole food that's nutrient dense. It's not something you wanna go crazy on. But if you want a sweet option, it definitely would be a better option. Ok. That's what we want. Just a little bit better and a little bit healthier. Coy Rodriguez. Thank you so much for keeping us healthy though at this time of the year.