Did you know that those big chocolate Easter bunnies contain as much as 1,000 calories each? Or that one type of Cadbury Egg has almost twice as much fat as the original? Read on for more of HG's Easter shockers, plus surprising guilt-free food finds!
Shocking Easter Stats!
On average, more than 60 million chocolate bunnies are produced each Easter season. You don't even want to know how many calories those buns add up to!
One original Cadbury Creme Egg has 150 calories and 5 fat grams -- that's a lot for a small chocolate sphere! But watch out, because a Cadbury Caramel Egg has almost twice as much fat (9g!) and packs in 170 calories. Eeeks!
Beware of the Chocolate Bunny!
A large chocolate bunny can have as much as 1,000 calories and 50 grams of fat -- and those things are often hollow, people! Even if you just bite off the head, you're still swallowing hundreds of calories and several dozen fat grams. Here's what you'd have to do to burn off the calories in the whole thing*:
Rake your lawn for over three and half hours straight
OR
Wheel a cart around the grocery store nonstop for close to six hours
OR
Actively participate in an Easter egg hunt for more than five and half consecutive hours!
*Estimates based on a 155-lb. adult.
Guilt-Free Easter Indulgences!
Marshmallow Peeps Milk chocolate bunnies and creme-filled chocolate eggs may be diet-busters, but Marshmallow Peeps shaped like bunnies and chicks are an awesome way to celebrate without wasting tons of fat and calories. In fact, all Peeps are fat-free! Five Chicks have a total of 140 calories, four Bunnies have 110 calories, and four Cocoa Bunnies have 120 calories! Plus, the Chicks come in a sugar-free version, only 20 calories each.
Jelly Belly Jelly Beans Jelly Belly beans have just around 4 calories each, so feel free to get festive with some pastel-colored ones this Easter. Some of our fave for Easter are Tutti-Fruitti, Berry Blue, Tangerine, Cotton Candy, and Buttered Popcorn. They even make a Spring Mix, perfect for guilt-free Easter chewin'! Pssst... Jelly Belly makes sugar-free jelly beans than have only around 2 calories each (but quite a bit of sugar alcohols, so consider yourself warned).
Easter is actually the second highest holiday for candy sales (only Halloween is more candy-centric). Americans spend close to 2 billion dollars on candy each Easter. So watch your candy consumption this season, cause summertime is just around the corner!
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