Do you really understand the calories in Snickers bars that you often eat?

Snickers can indeed eliminate hunger as its advertisements say, and that is why it is so popular among people. However, many people think that the calories in Snickers are not high. In fact, this is not the case. Snickers contains a lot of fat and energy, and its calories are very high among similar foods. Therefore, people who want to lose weight should eat less of this type of food.

1. Snickers calories

The calories of Snickers (based on 100 grams of edible part) are 489 kcal (2045 kilojoules), which is higher in terms of unit calories among similar foods. The calories in every 100 grams of Snickers account for about 21% of the total daily calorie intake recommended by the Chinese Nutrition Society for an average adult to stay healthy.

2. Snickers is not lower in calories than many snacks

In fact, Snickers has the characteristics of "high fat and high energy".

Ingredients of Snickers: milk chocolate (white sugar, cocoa mass, cocoa butter, skim milk powder, lactose, milk fat, refined edible vegetable oil, emulsifier (soy lecithin), edible flavoring), peanut kernels, glucose syrup, white sugar, skim milk powder, milk fat, refined edible vegetable oil, edible salt, egg protein powder, edible flavoring.

According to Snickers official data, among these nutrients, fat accounts for 40%, energy accounts for 24%, protein accounts for 14%, and carbohydrates account for only 19%.

The sugar content is very low in the overall nutritional composition of Snickers, which makes people feel "not hungry". The pharmacological effect of the small amount of theobromine contained in "cocoa liquor and cocoa butter" is that theobromine has a mild stimulating and excitatory effect on the human body, which can temporarily keep people away from hunger. Maybe this makes you think that Snickers has fewer calories than many snacks.