Healthy Vending Machine Foods?

I was reading the December issue of Fitness and their review of the 10 healthiest and 10 terrible vending machine snacks caught my eye. I started wondering what aside from nuts could actually be deemed healthy in a vending machine?

On their top ten list, they have sunflower kernels listed as #1 - ok fine, makes sense. But they have Baked! Lays listed as #2 which is 7 places ahead of peanuts. I’m pretty sure that Baked! Lays don’t really contain any real food products; at least peanuts are a real food. Their reasoning behind it, is of course fat content, calories and the fact that they are injected with fiber. But, is that really healthy? When the food industry produces foods that are low fat, enriched with fiber, or low calorie, its probably a signal that whatever you’re eating has been overly processed and is really bad for you. I think you’re much better off eating a bag of peanuts even if they have a higher fat content - they’re also loaded with protein and will probably make you full faster so you won’t eat the whole bag.

I wouldn’t recommend eating almost anything off their top ten list, but if you have to, I’d say ditch the Baked! Lays and Sun Chips and go for sunflower kernels or peanuts.

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