Which of these snacks is healthier?

[davidstone28]

Which of these snacks is healthier?

1. 100g Cadbury's Chocolate Bar or 100g of dried cranberries?
2. 100g of cashew nuts or 100g Cadbury's Chocolate Bar?

..and why?

[XA04]

My guess is the cranberries.. just a guess though. I guess fruit in general would be healthier than nuts..

[streetster]

depends if the chocolate bar has salmonella in it , but i reckon cashews are less healthy than chocolate in terms of fat and stuff like that, maybe cranberries are better still tho...

[Swafe]

cranberries > chocolate > cawshews

id guess

[Elmo]

depends on if the cashews are roasted and salted or not.

cranberries > cashews > chocolate if the cashews are raw as cranberries = fruit (fruit sugars are better for you than added sugars), nuts = nut oils (good for you apparently), chocolate = fatty, creamy and full of sugar.

[leeglf]

cranberries best then cashews lots of fat but its good fat then chocolate full of crap!

[MadduckUK]

im going to say chocolate is the best for you. because it would be a weird question ro ask if you didnt already know the answer

[shiato storm]

i say melt the chocolate in a bowl over a pan of boiling water, add the nuts (crushed) some flower, eggs, vanilla essence, baking powder, butter, chuck the cranberries in last then - depending on your mixing quanities you'll be getting chocolate- :
muffins,
brownines,
cake,
cookies,
with cranberries.

its not healthy but does taste good

[pr0p4g4nd4]

its not healthy but does taste good

Now that's a damn fine philosophy!

[Funkstar]

1. if you just look at the grams of sugar, probably chocolate
2. if you just look at the grams of fat, probably chocolate

but neither of those takes into account the type of sugar or fat, or any of the other nutrients or additives.

[Mike Fishcake]

im going to say chocolate is the best for you. because it would be a weird question ro ask if you didnt already know the answer

That was exactly my first thought as well

[shiato storm]

Now that's a damn fine philosophy!

I'm always right

[5lab]

what do you mean by 'healthy'. i personally don't have enough calories/fat in my diet, so the nuts would probably be best. healthy is all relevant to diet and person

[uk_sam]

Not directly answering the question but just want to mention that cashew nuts can be an excellent addition to anyone's diet. Obviously they are high in fat so you have to be sensible but the glycemic index is low so they keep you full for longer. When harvest cashew nuts are actually poisonous and need to be processed/cooked before they are edible. Don't worry the cashew nuts in supermarkers and health stores are normally ready to eat.

I must say that they are very addictive and I'm not such I would eat too many of them if I was on a diet. They are tasty

[davidstone28]

1. if you just look at the grams of sugar, probably chocolate
2. if you just look at the grams of fat, probably chocolate

but neither of those takes into account the type of sugar or fat, or any of the other nutrients or additives.

Give that man a prize!

Am amazed that in a 100g pack of dried cranberries, 80% of it is pure sugar which is a much higher % than chocolate.

50% of a cashew nut is fat which is higher thant the % fat you find in a (deep fried) packet of crisps.

Don't know if there's difference between 'good' fat/sugars and 'bad' fat/sugars though.

[Funkstar]

Don't know if there's difference between 'good' fat/sugars and 'bad' fat/sugars though.

of course there is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_fats
that's a good one for an example of the differences between different kinds of fat, and the damage processed fats can cause compared to natural fats (like you find in nuts).

The same is true for sugars, but i can't remember the names of the really bad ones there is a large section on this is Morgan Spurlocks Don't Eat This Book
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0...teway&v=glance

Might be a simplistic way to look at this, but the more processed the food, the worse it is, regardless of the listed fat/sugar contents.

Anyway, cadburys chocolate is rubbish (and can kill you ), give me a handful of cashews (or macadamias) and cranberries any day