Smart Snacks

Snacks are an important part of eating. They provide nutrients and food energy to go, grow, and learn. Following these suggestions will help you make smart snack and drink choices. Read Nutrition Facts and use the % Daily Values on product labels to guide your snack selections. Remember, the amount counts!

Our definition of a smart snack is one that contains at least 6% Daily Value of one or more vitamins, minerals, or dietary fiber, less than 10% Daily Value of Total Fat and Total Carbohydrate, and no more than 360 milligrams (mg) sodium. The following snack foods and drinks meet our Smart Snack guidelines.

How do your snack choices stack up?

Important!

Fresh Fruits	Dry Fruits	Fresh Vegetables
1 piece or ½ cup Apples Bananas Grapes Oranges Grapes Peaches Pears Pineapple slices/chunks Plums Strawberries	¼ cup Apples Apricots Bananas Cherries Plums Raisins (about 2 tablespoons)	Broccoli florets Baby carrots Celery sticks Cherry tomatoes Grape tomatoes Corn on the cob Cucumber chips Sweet potato wedges Zucchini sticks

Fruit Containers

Del Monte Lite Pack—diced peaches and mixed fruit

Dole Fruit Gel Bowls

Dole Fruit Bowls

Mott's Applesauce

Bread and crackers made of whole wheat, rolled oats, or other whole grains are smartest. Check first ingredient on the label.

Bread

Sandwich bread (1 slice)

Pita bread (1.2)

Flour tortillas (1)

Bagels (l.2)

Crackers

Great Value Cheese and Bacon Baked Crisp Snacks (18 crackers)

Great Value Cheese Baked Crisp Snacks (18 crackers)

Great Value Double Cross Baked Crisp Snacks (7 crackers)

Great Value Reduced Fat Wheat Baked Crisp Snacks (16 crackers)

Great Value Vegetable Baked Crisp Snacks (18 crackers)

Great Value White Cheddar Baked Crisp Snacks (18 crackers)

Nabisco Reduced Fat Cheese Nips (31 pieces)

Nabisco Reduced Fat Triscuits (7 crackers)

Nabisco Reduced Fat Wheat Thins (l6 crackers)

Southern Home Snack Crackers (5 crackers)

Cookies

Great Value (12 pieces), Kellogg’s, and Nabisco Animal Crackers (24 pieces)

Nabisco Fig Newtons, reduced fat and regular (2 bars)

Great Value, Kellogg's, Nabisco, and Southern Homes Graham Crackers, regular and low fat (2 cracker sheets)

Murray Ginger Snaps (15 cookies)

Great Value Oatmeal cookies (2 cookies)

Kellogg’s Rice Krispies Treats Original (1 square)

Nabisco Teddy Grahams (24 pieces)

Bud’s Best Reduced Fat Vanilla Wafers (11 wafers)

Great Value Vanilla Wafers (7 wafers)

Running late? On the go? Keep individual snack packages on hand. Look for ones that contain protein and are fortified with nutrients.

Breakfast Bars and Cereal Mix

General Mills Chex Morning Mix
General Mills Milk 'n Cereal Bars—Cheerios, Cocoa Puffs
Kellogg's Special K Bar
Kellogg's Nutri Grain Cereal Bars—all varieties
Kellogg's Nutri Grain Twists—Apple Cobbler, Cappuccino & Cream
Quaker Oats Fruit and Oatmeal Bars—all varieties
General Mills Nature Valley Chewy Trail Mix Bars—Fruit and Nut Apple Cinnamon
General Mills Nature Valley Crunchy Granola Bars—all varieties
Keebler Journey Bars151;Apple Cinnamon, Peanut Butter Fudge
Quaker Oats Chewy Granola Bars—all varieties

Chips, Pretzels, and Rice Cakes

Frito Lay—Baked Potato, Baked BBQ, and Baked Sour Cream & Onion Potato Crisps
Frito Lay—Baked Cooler Ranch and Baked Nacho Cheesier Doritos
Ruffles Baked Potato and Baked Cheddar and Sour Cream Potato Crisps
Southern Home Mini Twist Pretzels, Fat Free (IS)
Snyder's Pretzels and Sour Dough Pretzels
Quaker Oats Rice Snacks, mini (7 cakes)

Drinks

Water

Water—tap

Dasani water

Aquafina water

Fruit₂0

Fruit₂0 Plus

Milk (8 ounces)

1% or skim milk, white

1% or skim milk, flavored

Soy milk

Fruit and Vegetable Juices (6 to 12 ounces)

Dole Juice Boxes—Orange, Strawberry Banana, Pine-orange Banana

Minute Maid Juices to Go—Orange, Orange Blend, Apple, White Grapefruit

Minute Made Juice Boxes—all varieties

Mott’s Juice—Orange, Apple

Treetop Juice—Apple, Grape

Dole Juice—Pineapple

Juicy Juice—All varieties

Tropicana Juice—Orange, Apple, Grape, Grapefruit

Welch’s Juice—Grape

Very Fine 100% Juices—Apple, Orange, Grape, Grapefruit, Tomato Juice

V8 Juice

Sports Drinks (12 ounces or less)

Gatorade

PowerAde

Propel

Nuts and Seeds

Cracker Jacks Nothing But Nuts—Original and Toffee Peanuts >Frito Lay Honey Roasted, Hot Roasted, Salted Roasted Peanuts

Frito Lay Regular and BBQ Sunflower Seeds, Sunflower Seed Kernels

Frito Lay Smoke Flavored Almonds

Lance Cashews

Lance Honey Toasted and Salted Peanuts

Lance Pistachios

Lance Sunflower Seeds

Low-Fat Dairy Foods

Cheese

(1 slice/1 serving)

Reduced fat varieties: American, Cheddar, Monterey Jack, mozzarella, string, Swiss

Pudding

Hershey (1 tube) Portable Pudding, all flavors

Kozy Shack (4-ounce cup) No sugar added

Winky Pudding Pals (4-ounce cup) all flavors

Yogurt

Yogurt can be high in sugar. Check the Nutrition Facts on the label.

Breyers (8-ounce cup) Light Fat Free, all flavors

Breyers (4-ounce cup) Smooth and Creamy, all flavors

Colombo (8-ounce cup) Light, all flavors

Dannon (4-ounce cup) Fruit Blend and Light N Fit, all flavors

Dannon (6-ounce cup) Light Fit, all flavors

Dannon (7-ounces) Light and Fit Smoothie

Great Value (6-ounce cup) Light low fat, all flavors

Penn Maid (8-ounce cup) Light, all flavors

Winn Dixie (8-ounce cup) Fat Free, all flavors

Yoplait (6-ounce cup) Light, all flavors

Yoplait (4-ounce cup) Custard Style; Yumsters, all flavors; original, all flavors; Trix, all flavors

Frozen Yogurt (½ cup)