Can I Eat Low Sodium Halloween Candy

There is no escape! This time of year the stores have pallets and aisles of sweets and treats, just to entice us. It is the time for stocking up on Halloween Candy. These can’t be bad for us right? I mean they are all called “Fun Size”! There can’t be salt in them, or is there? Once again, I am making the ultimate sacrifice for the low sodium community to find out the answer to the question: “Can I eat low sodium Halloween Candy?”

On a typical week Americans spend $300 million on candy, but experts say U.S. candy sales should hit $2.5 billion for Halloween 2016. The website Influenster conducted a poll to find out what the favorite Halloween candy is for each state (did they get your state right? Let me know in the comments).

That’s a ton of sugar! But what about the salt? I took the top 25 selling Halloween Candies and have the information for their sodium nutritional information listed, along with the serving size. Most of these will indeed be within our daily sodium limits, unless you plan on eating a full bag of the Regular Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups in one sitting. So let’s find out if there is low sodium Halloween Candy:

Can I Eat Low Sodium Halloween Candy:

Top Selling Halloween Candy in Fun-Size/Snack Size Package (In no particular order):

1. Almond Joy – 20 mg/1 bar
2. Mounds – 20 mg/1 bar
3. Nerds – 0 mg/1 tbsp
4. Kit Kat – 30 mg/5 pieces
5. Skittles – 2 mg/1 pkg
6. Twizzlers – 85 mg/3 pieces
7. Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups – 65 mg/1 reg cup, or 100 mg/11 pieces (minis)
8. Milky Way – 28mg/1 bar
9. Snickers – 43 mg/1 bar
10. 100 Grand – 45 mg/1 bar
11. Candy corn – 17 mg/19 pieces
12. Butterfingers – 43 mg/1 bar
13. Reeses Pieces – 17 mg/1 package
14. M&M’s – 25 mg/1 package (plain), or 10 mg/1 package (peanut)
15. 3 Musketeers – 28 mg/1 bar
16. Crunch – 18 mg/1 bar
17. Hersheys Fun Size – 12 mg/1 bar (all varieties)
18. Sour Patch – 5 mg/1 snack size package
19. Sweet Tarts – 0 mg/1 package
20. Whoppers – 16 mg/1 package
21. Milk Duds – 26 mg/ 1 package
22. Mike & Ikes – 15 mg/1 package
23. Junior Mints – 13 mg/1 package
24. Starburst – 0 mg/1 package
25. Laffy taffy – 1 mg/1 piece

I’m kind of sad that my favorite, Twizzlers is the highest! How did yours turn out? Let me know in the comments below!