Microwave Popcorn

If you enjoy it, it fits into your daily cals and macros, and if you're not consuming ridiculous amounts of it as to push other nutrient rich carbs out of your diet, then it's fine.

It's not exactly a nutrient rich choice mind you, but that shouldn't stop you from enjoying it as long as you're getting your nutrients elsewhere.

What sidesteel said.
But I'll add. I used to be a microwave popcorn junky too. I like my air popped popcorn much better!

I've been using my air popper a lot lately too. Love it.

Popcorn is a healthy snack and because high in fiber keeps you satisfied too.

I love microwave popcorn. An easy, relatively low calorie snack. If you're worried about the abundance of chemicals (if those don't kill ya, something else will, is my philosophy), you can try this:

http://www.squawkfox.com/2010/07/27/popcorn-recipe-gourmet-popcorn/

It's directions for making microwave popcorn in a brown paperback with popping corn and a little oil and has ideas for flavorings. I have yet to actually try it myself, so buyer beware. If you do try it, drop me a line, let me know how it works out.

I try not to eat preservatives and chemicals and microwave popcorn has all of that. Especially the one I like to get, which is the Oville Redenbacher's 100 calories bags 94% fat free butter popcorn. I even bought an air popper to go the all natural route and it just doesn't taste as good and isn't as convient. I usually eat this popcorn as a treat and not every day. I'm pretty sure the calories are correct. I wouldn't say it is bad, but not good either. There are better snacks out there and there are worse. Everything in moderation, right?

YES! I love popcorn, i mean try and switch up your diet so you don't plateau as much but yes, popcorn si a great snack food!

wonder where the people who say the microwave popcorn will cause cancer are. Remember when that was on the news..something about when the bag heats up and puts that toxin in your air. Well regardless I have a 100 calorie bag EVERY night. I love it!

My husband and I were talking about this the other day. I think this guy just won millions of dollars from some microwave popcorn company because he had lung damage from inhaling bags of microwave popcorn a day. He ate a sick amount and would inhale the steam when he opened the bag. Weirdo. . Anyway, he found out the cause of his illness when he heard about workers in the plants coming down with "popcorn lung". Also, the ingredient/chemical that caused this was not listed on the ingredients. I don't think it caused cancer, but did give people "popcorn lung".

Actually, it’s not popcorn, per se, that people should be worried about. It’s the microwave bag in which it cooks that many experts say is the problem.

Popcorn itself is healthy. It’s a whole-grain food, high in fiber and antioxidants and, if not doused in fat, a pretty low-cal snack.

The problem is the chemicals used in the lining of the bag, including perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA).

PFOA is also used to make Teflon and other stain- and stick-resistant materials, including pizza boxes. It’s part of a number of compounds that have caused liver, testicular and pancreatic cancer in animals. The chemicals may also be linked to infertility in women, according to a recent study at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Earlier this year, a study found that these chemicals may prevent childhood vaccinations from working properly. Children who had higher concentrations of the chemicals in their blood had a lower level of protection against some childhood diseases for which they had been vaccinated.

Popcorn with artificial flavoring is also a concern. A few years ago, microwave popcorn was slammed for the use of diacetyl in its artificial butter flavor, which caused a rare type of lung disease among workers who inhaled it at microwave popcorn factories.

Most manufacturers have removed diaceytl from their products, but it’s been replaced with other kinds of butter flavoring that some government scientists say are just as bad as the original stuff.

Make your own microwave popcorn. Use a brown paper lunch bag, combine 1⁄4 cup popping corn with 1⁄4 teaspoon salt and fold the top of the bag over a couple of times (some people tape it shut). Microwave on high for 2 to 3 minutes, until there are 4 or 5 seconds between pops. Open the bag or container carefully, because steam will have built up. Toss with your seasonings and a drizzle of butter or olive oil or serve as is.

You can add oil to the bag at the beginning if you like, but this will yield a slightly greasy bag (so — you use a bowl). And of course you can top the finished product with melted butter or any spice you want. This enables you to have microwaved popcorn but with your choice of popcorn and oil, and, if you were to make popcorn daily, to save hundreds of dollars a year. At every supermarket in the country, microwave popcorn sells for at least $4 a pound and usually closer to $6. Ordinary popcorn is about $1 a pound, or less; good organic popcorn is about $2 a pound.

a bag of Microwave popcorn here is about the same as eating a 100g chocolate bar what brand has such low calories ?

I use the paper bag method and use only a drop of oil, hardly 1/8 teaspoon. I stir the oil and kernels in a measuring cup before putting them into the bag (I use a toothpick), so they're all lightly coated. Yes, it makes for an oily bag - which means the bag is soaking up the oil, which a bowl wouldn't do. In my microwave, it only takes 1 1/2 minutes, but probably because of the oil.

I eat a bag just about every day too and it seems to fit in nicely overall...