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Most cookies are loaded with sugar and white carbs, and can be a dieter’s worst nightmare. And while nearly all cookies fall into the “hate it” category (nutritionally speaking, of course) there are a few better-for-you brands. Careful, though, some of these “healthier” cookies really aren’t any better than the real deal! Today we’re Getting the Skinny with Molly on the best and worst of the seemingly-healthy cookies on shelves.
LOVE IT!
- Whole wheat flour, palm oil, sugar, salt
- Per 2 pieces: 80 calories – 12 grams carbs – 1 gram fiber – 3 grams sugar
Kashi Oatmeal Dark Chocolate Cookie
- Whole grain blend (oats, hard red wheat, rye, triticale, barley), followed by dark chocolate chips, canola oil, Kashi Seven whole grain flour blend….
- Per cookie: 130 calories – 20 grams carbs – 4 grams fiber – 8 grams sugar
LIKE IT!
Back to Nature’s Vanilla Wafers & Ginger Snaps
- Made with whole grains oats and whole wheat flour, no white, refined flours
- Per 5 wafers: 150 calories – 21 grams carbs – 2 grams fiber – 9 grams sugar
HATE IT!
Grandma’s Old-Fashioned Chocolate Chip Cookies
- White flour, chocolate chips, shortening, sugar, high fructose corn syrup, molasses
- Per snack pack: 340 calories – 44 grams carbs – <2 grams fiber – 22 grams sugar
Murray’s Sugar Free Cookies
- White flour, oil, sugar-free chocolate chips, sugar alcohols maltitol & sorbitol, acesulfame potassium, sucralose…
- Per 3 cookies: 150 calories – 20 grams carbs – 2 grams fiber – 0 sugar
Fig Newtons
- Figs, high fructose corn syrup, whole grain wheat flour, white flour, corn syrup, sugar, oil…
- Per 2 cookies: 110 calories – 22 grams carbs – 2 grams fiber – 12 grams sugar
Snackwell’s
- Sugar, white flour, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, cocoa…
- Per cookie: 50 calories – 12 grams carbs – 0 fiber – 7 grams sugar