“Definitely butter-flavored - it’s too bad butter-flavored can’t taste like the real thing.” - Madilyn Hutchison Foco Great taste for number of calories.” - Christie Coleman Nutrition: 90 calories (22 percent fat calories) 280 milligrams sodium in 2 tablespoons unpopped popcorn (makes 5 cups popped).Ĭomments: “Mmmmm! Buttery, salty, makes you thirsty. Orville Redenbacher’s Smart Pop! Low Fat Popping Corn “Good flavor, perfect saltiness, didn’t taste low-fat.” - Karen Buck I like a tad more butter, though.” - Jan Robison It’s OK if you’re in the mood for the healthy stuff. Nutrition: 120 calories (14 percent fat calories) 380 milligrams sodium in 3 tablespoons unpopped popcorn (makes 6 cups popped).Ĭomments: “Crispy and dry, must be low-cal. Pass the pepperoni, please.īetty Crocker Pop Secret 94 Percent Fat Free Premium Microwave Popcorn Unable to find the third cheese bread we thought was on the market, we instead substituted the thin, plain pizza crusts from Mama Mary’s, which more than one panelist compared to crackers (not to mention cardboard). (By the way, whichever crust you choose, you’re better off topping it with Safeway’s fresh-tasting, fat-free Verdi Diced Plum Tomato & Italian Herb Sauce rather than Boboli’s heavy-on-the-tomato-paste pizza sauce.) The biggest difference was in price, with the Safeway brand costing a full dollar more, despite a display sign that read, “Compare to national brand and save.” The pizza crust competition produced a clearer winner, with well-known national brand Boboli besting a similar, but less flavorful, product in the usually reliable Safeway Select line (both were topped with the same jarred sauce and a little cheese). If you have a choice, it seems, just say “no.” Meanwhile, the Healthy Choice offering extended the label’s recent string of sad scores in panel tastings. In hopes of helping to cultivate a healthier couch potato, we fed The Spokesman-Review’s reader food panel samples of some slimmer munchies: reduced-fat microwave popcorns, and prepared pizza crusts, the kind you could use to make more nutritious pies with less cheese and meat and more veggies (“could,” of course, is the operative word).Īmong the popcorns, the plainer Pop Secret was a slight taste favorite over the artificially butter-flavored Orville Redenbacher’s Smart Pop, although Orville’s slightly lower price gave it the nod for value. The gray days of February are a perfect time to plop in front of the tube with some snacks popcorn or pizza, perhaps.īut in a time when you may not be getting a lot of exercise either, such treats can take their toll on your tummy (and surrounding regions).
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