Which Girl Scout Cookies Are The Healthiest For You?
Ranking what really matters in a fun diet from healthiest to least healthy...Well as 'healthy' as Girl Scout Cookies can be that is.
- TreFoils: These shortbread-style cookies weigh in at about 120 calories and 4 grams of sugar per serving size of four cookies. The cookies are also free of artificial colors, hydrogenated oils, and high fructose corn syrup.
- Peanut Butter Sandwich: These cookies use whole grain oats and peanut butter. Otherwise, the cookies pack 4 grams of protein and 6 grams of sugar into 170 calories of 3 cookies. The cookies are free of artificial colors and high fructose corn syrup.
- Trios: Although trios pack 11 grams of sugar into 170 calories per 3 cookies, they also contain whole grains and peanut butter. The cookies are also free of artificial flavors, palm or hydrogenated oils, high fructose corn syrup and are made of certified gluten free oats.
- Peanut Butter Patties: These cookies may have peanut butter, but that's about the only thing keeping these cookies in our number four spot. The cookies only have a serving size of 2 cookies and are filled with two grams of sugar and two grams of protein for a whopping total of 130 calories. The cookies are made of 100% pure peanut butter and contain no artificial flavors, however.
- Lemonades: These cookies have a serving size of only 2 cookies and contain 9 grams of sugar and only one gram of protein. However, they are nut free, milk free, high fructose corn syrup free and contain no artificial coloring.
- Thin Mints: These cookies are among the Girl Scout's best selling cookies. The only thing keeping the cookie in front of the next cookie on our list is the double serving size sitting in at 4 cookies per serving. Otherwise, the cookie has 12 grams of sugar per serving per 2 grams of protein. They are also milk and nut free with no artificial coloring.
- Thanks-A-Lot: You won't be thanking yourself if you eat a whole box of these cookies in one sitting. The cookies have a serving size of two cookies and contain 10 grams of sugar for every 1 gram of protein. On the bright side, the cookies are nut and milk free with no artificial coloring.
- Caramel Delights: This cookie only has a 2 cookie serving size and has 12 grams of sugar and 1 gram of protein. The cookie does have 100% real cocoa, milk and no artificial coloring.
- Girl Scout Smores: This cookie is your ultimate desert cookie weighing in at 16 grams of sugar per 2 cookie serving size with only 1 gram of protein. the cookie does, however, have no preservatives or artificial coloring and bouts a profile of real cocoa.
Sources: https://www.abcsmartcookies.com/girl-scout-smores
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