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Boom Chicka Pop also has about twice the salt of Skinny Pop.īelow, I’ll answer 9 more specific health questions about Boom Chicka Pop. The flavors with sugar, cheese, and chocolate are more calorically dense yet. Even the healthiest flavors, Sea Salt Popcorn and Avocado Oil Popcorn, get about half their calories from processed oil. After eating probably 25+ bags of this stuff myself, I finally decided to do a deep dive into the nutrition… The results? Not so pretty.īoom Chicka Pop is not very healthy. So when I find myself in airports or gas stations, I often buy ready-to-eat popcorn like Boom Chicka Pop. If you’re looking to snack at home, stock up on some of these healthy versions below, which feature simple ingredients and limited to no butter, flavorings, salt.Popcorn is literally my favorite food. Or better yet, pop your own at home and bring it along with you. Order the smallest size available and don’t add any extra salt or butter. That said, it doesn’t mean you have to forego your favorite cinema snack, Kasparek says. ![]() And the butter used on movie theater popcorn isn’t actually butter it’s a partially hydrogenated soybean oil (a trans fat), beta carotene for coloring, tertiary Butylhydroquinone (TBHQ) as a synthetic preservative, polydimethylsiloxane to prevent foaming, and butter flavoring. A large, without butter, clocks in at a whopping 1,030 calories and 41 grams of fat. ![]() “If it’s a sweet flavor, we’re adding added sugar, and that’s not necessarily where we want our sugar to come from,” she says.Īs for movie theater popcorn calories? The portion sizes (huge), “butter,” and heavy amounts of salt, make it highly caloric and can offset the fact that you’re eating a (healthy) whole grain.Īccording to MyFitnessPal, a small popcorn, without butter, has 225 calories with 11 grams of fat. And you may be adding 8 grams of added sugar to your snack. She points out that a serving of a sweet-flavored popcorn like kettle corn may have the same number of calories as the butter-and-salt variety, but the serving size goes from four cups to two. “The biggest mistake you can make is buying fun flavors,” Kasparek says. Once you start straying from the unprocessed whole grain, sprinkled with some salt, you start to miss out on many of the health perks. The Nutritional Breakdown of Other Types of Popcorn
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