
Just because a snack has 100 calories or less doesn’t mean that it is good for you or will leave you feeling full and satisfied. It’s also not a guarantee that it is going to taste good, even if it does have a well-known brand name. Check out these 5 worst picks based on nutrition, fill factor and taste.
1. Entenmanns Brownie Bites
Not only do you only get 4 or 5 miniscule little “brownies,” but they taste nothing like brownies and leave you hanging with a chocolate craving. With a whopping 8g of sugar for these tasteless pieces of chocolate, this snack really isn’t worth trying.
2. 100-Calorie Pack Planters Peanut Butter Cookies
High in sodium – and with a similarity to cardboard – these peanut butter cookies just don’t cut it when you are looking for a satisfying peanut butter taste. Instead of forcing down a bag of these, you’d be better off spreading a little protein-rich peanut butter on an apple or some toast.
3. Quaker Cheddar Rice Cakes
If you’ve ever been on a serious diet, you’ve probably eaten plenty of low-calorie, bland-tasting rice cakes. Quaker tries to spice up the taste with different flavorings. It’s a valiant effort that most of the time falls flat. The true blandness really shows through on the Cheddar flavor. And the nutrition is virtually non-existent with nothing but 7.9g of carbs and 1 measly gram of protein in a single Styrofoam-textured cake.
4. Special K Strawberry Snack Bites
These have only 90 calories, but with 135mg of sodium and 7g of sugar their nutrition score is average at best. Don’t expect to feel full and satisfied after snacking on one of these mini-packets. They might satisfy a craving for sweets, but don’t count on them for much more than that.
5. 100-Calorie Pack Chips Ahoy Cookies
They were not nearly as yummy-looking as the real thing. After a bag, you will surely look for something else to satisfy your chocolate chip cookie craving. Then, you will end up having a real cookie for “dessert.”

