Remember when we used to think trail mix was a health food?
This highly caloric snack is supposed to be consumed while hiking.
If you’re still uniformly counting every trail mix as healthy, you’ve been duped!
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Trail mix is a snack with vastly different blends of ingredients.
Is trail mix healthy?
It can be, and it can also be pretty unhealthy, too.
Dried fruit is a great source of fiber as well as vitamins and minerals.
But if the only fruit involved is a raisin rolled in a sweetened yogurt coating, guess again.
Perhaps the biggest problem with trail mix is the serving size.
And if you aren’t really hiking, well .
let’s just say it’s as bad as snacking on other unhealthy snacks with a bad reputation.
Back To Nature Harvest Blend
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Planters Nut-rition Omega-3 Mix
If you’re all about heart health, this one’s for you.
Planters Omega-3 Mix contains cashews and walnuts, and is an excellent source of ALA omega-3s.
You won’t find any junk food mix-ins herejust sweet cinnamon apples and raisins.
365 Everyday Value Cape Cod Trail Mix
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This Whole Foods brand mix is super simple.
There is a bit of added sugar here, but it caps off at 2 grams per serving.
Available at Whole Foods Market.
This mix has sunflower and pumpkin seeds along with raisins, cranberries, dried apples, and chocolate chips.
Buy it in a single-serving pouch if it’s too tempting to get a whole bag.
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The worst trail mixes you’re able to buy
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Still, this isn’t a trail mix to gorge on.
But the truth is that a serving size of trail mi should really be less than that.
But look closely at the components: seasoned almonds and peanuts, corn nuggets, and honey-roasted sesame sticks.
The corn nuggets and honey sesame sticks are not a nutritionally valuable addition like, say, dried fruits.
With 240 milligrams of sodium, this savory trail mix is the most sodium-heavy of the bunch.
But it all comes under the guise of a healthy snack.
So don’t go picking out the M&Ms and leaving the nuts and raisins behind.
