Is Skinny Popcorn Healthy?

Back to the label: SkinnyPop Popcorn also contains a healthy amount of fiber—more than 12 percent of your daily recommended intake. Fiber helps you feel fuller longer, which is an important part of weight management. It also helps regulate your digestive system and prevent constipation.

Skinny Pop is a healthy popcorn that helps to make snacking guilt free. It contains only 39 calories per cup which is quite low. It is also very tasty. My family and I opened a bag and really liked it. It is slightly salty, slightly buttery and filling. I like to eat it plain and also created a simple, tasty recipe which I will share below.

Skinny Pop, the most popular brand of microwave popcorn, is also one of the healthiest. Each bag of Simply Pop popcorn contains 100 calories (418 kJ). Skinny Pop has no GMOs and zero trans fat. The label doesn’t trick consumers into thinking it’s something it’s not.

Yes, Skinny pop popcorns are air-popped. Using the air popping technique makes skinny popcorn much healthier than any regular popcorn available on supermarket shelves. It also increases the taste and keeps the carbs and calories in place so that you enjoy a guilt-free munching experience.

Popcorn Nutrition

• Carbs. Is popcorn a carb? Yes, carbs make a major part of the nutritional value of popcorn.
• Fiber. The amount of fiber in popcorn is pretty high, making them an excellent source for the vital nutrient.
• Other Nutrients. Besides the four main nutrients, popcorn is also rich in minerals and vitamins.

Any person trying to lose weight will eat this right up. They want you to feel like you are making a great choice by choosing their brand. Unfortunately, Skinny Pop is one of the popcorn brands that you should avoid. Simple, right? Only 3 ingredients. That part is definitely good. However, sunflower oil is the oil used in the snack.

The fat in Skinny Pop Popcorn comes from sunflower oil. Most of the fat in Sunflower Oil is unsaturated. Sunflower oil is a healthy fat that contains more Vitamin E than peanuts, olive, soybean, and corn oil. It’s been stated that Vitamin E may strengthen your immune system and lower your risk for heart disease.

Skinny Pop is healthier than most brands of microwave popcorn due to the type of oil used. Skinny Pop contains sunflower oil, while most microwave popcorn has palm oil. Palm oil is high in saturated fat, which may raise LDL cholesterol and heart disease risk. Skinny Pop is also healthier than microwave popcorn in a couple of other ways.

1. Is Skinny Pop a Processed Food?

Skinny Pop is considered a processed food, as it contains sunflower oil. In fact, more than half of the calories in Skinny Pop come from the processed oil. However, Skinny Pop also contains whole grain, and it’s sugar-free—so it is healthier than many processed foods.

Skinny Pop can be part of a healthy weight-loss diet, as it is relatively low in calories. However, air-popped popcorn without oil would be even better for weight-loss. Without added oil, air-popped popcorn is the lowest-calorie form of popcorn by far.

With 3 grams of fiber per serving, Skinny Pop is a pretty good source of fiber. That said, it’s not quite as fiber-rich as beans, with around 7 grams of fiber per serving, or Fiber One cereal with 14 grams of fiber per serving. So I would consider Skinny Pop a moderate source of fiber.

The original flavor of Skinny Pop is sugar free. Many other flavors of Skinny Pop contain a small amount of sugar, however. The kettle corn flavors of Skinny Pop have the most sugar, with 7g or 8g per serving.

Skinny Pop is not low fat. The original flavor has 10 grams of fat in each serving. This means about 60% of the calories are from fat. Almost all of the fat is from sunflower oil, so it is mostly polyunsaturated fat.

Popcorn is a whole grain, so Skinny Pop does contain whole grain. However, Skinny Pop also contains sunflower oil, which is a processed ingredient. Therefore, Skinny Pop does not count as a “whole food” overall.

Skinny Pop contains 0mg of dietary cholesterol—so it is definitely low in cholesterol. In addition, Skinny Pop is also low in saturated fat (1 gram per serving), which is a type of fat that raises LDL cholesterol levels.