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    Low calorie hard candy?

    Posts: 103 Member
    edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
    Is there any yummy low calorie hard candy?

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    • Posts: 126 Member
      All kinds. Most (non-diet) hard candies are 10-20 calories apiece, at least the ones I see. I guess it's just down to how many you want to eat.
    • Posts: 23 Member
      They aren't high calories just a lot of sugar.. insulin spike so beware
    • Posts: 103 Member
      The low calorie candy is a lot of sugar? How does that work?
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    • Posts: 747 Member
      I like Ice Breakers Sours. They are sugar free and only 2 calories per candy. They scratch my "sweet" itch, so to speak.
    • Posts: 14,517 Member
      I like Nips Caramels. They are 30 calories a piece, but they are so hard you have to suck on them. You can't absentmindedly chew them like Werthers.
    • Posts: 7,800 Member
      Werthers has a hard candy only for about 25 calories and it takes about 10 minutes to finish. I also like the mini tootsie pops at 20 calories each.
    • Posts: 2,383 Member
      Werthers, Gobstoppers, Warheads (if you enjoy torturing yourself)... there are lots of options at the dollar store. I like to have a couple candies in the afternoon to kill my sweet tooth craving.
    • Posts: 1,362 Member
      Another vote for Werthers hard candy. I love the coffee caramels.
    • Posts: 4,647 Member
      TeaBea wrote: »
      I like Nips Caramels. They are 30 calories a piece, but they are so hard you have to suck on them. You can't absentmindedly chew them like Werthers.

      You can, if you don't mind pulling your fillings out. :trollface:
    • Posts: 4,647 Member
      edited September 2017
      shimmer_glo wrote: »
      The low calorie candy is a lot of sugar? How does that work?

      Sugar is only something like 15 cal/tsp (don't know the grams). Sugar doesn't necessarily mean high-cal. It's associated with high-cal foods because they can contain a lot of added sugar, and sometimes a lot of fat, plus flour in baked goods which can make those particular foods high-cal. Hard candies are mostly small amounts of almost all sugar, so easy to work into a calorie-restricted diet.
    • Posts: 2,847 Member
      Tootsie Pops, baby. 60 long lasting calories of sweet deliciousness.
    • Posts: 3,788 Member
      I like jolly ranchers. I limit how many I keep in my purse, but I enjoy them when I need a sweet fix.
    • Posts: 2,928 Member
      life savers, only 15 calories a piece
    • Posts: 7,800 Member
      angmarie28 wrote: »
      life savers, only 15 calories a piece

      Oh man, I used to love lifesavers but then I bought some for work and....the red tastes like cough syrup, the green is watermelon and not lime, the yellow is pineapple (the only one I truly liked), the purple was raspberry and not grape(??????), and orange was orange. :)

      I tried to buy the butter rum next because I remember liking those but office depot didn't have it anymore.
    • Posts: 14 Member
      Big fan of campinos
    • Posts: 26,368 Member
      Werthers!
    • Posts: 41,865 Member
      Jolly Rancher...23 calories each

      I'd say most hard candy is low calorie...just depends on how many you eat.
    • Posts: 41,865 Member
      aligazali3497 wrote: »
      They aren't high calories just a lot of sugar.. insulin spike so beware

      Oh noes...your body doing what it's supposed to do...how scary...
    • Posts: 2,928 Member
      glassyo wrote: »
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      Oh man, I used to love lifesavers but then I bought some for work and....the red tastes like cough syrup, the green is watermelon and not lime, the yellow is pineapple (the only one I truly liked), the purple was raspberry and not grape(??????), and orange was orange. :)

      I tried to buy the butter rum next because I remember liking those but office depot didn't have it anymore.

      :D:D:D my coworker said the same thing when she bought a big bag of them, bahaha, I still like them though
    • Posts: 1,073 Member
      I eat tic tacs, menthos. I just pop a few in my mouth throughout the day. I probably eat about 50-60 calories in little candies a day though. I also chew gum if I feel I want to eat but not necessarily hungry.
    • Posts: 105 Member
      Willy Wonka chewy spree and sweetarts are my go to for candy cravings. You can have like 8 pieces for only 50 calories, or the whole roll for 150.
    • Posts: 14,464 Member
      Look for hard candies sweetened with sorbitol.
    • Posts: 88 Member
      I had a butterscotch hard candy today and was pleasantly surprised to discover it was only 20 calories.
    • Posts: 11,463 Member
      There is sugar free hard candy.
    • Posts: 4,647 Member
      lorrpb wrote: »
      There is sugar free hard candy.

      I knew a lady who decided to try sugar free starlight mints. She worked as a medical assistant. She had to keep bailing to use the toilet.
    • Posts: 393 Member
      Oh gosh I work at the hospital and sugar free jolly ranchers really cleans out the pipes!
    • Posts: 393 Member
      Not sure if they are low cal but I loveeeeeeee cinnamon gummy bears!
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