Whether you love gummies, peanut butter cups, red vines, or candy bars, there's a lower-sugar, cleaner label option waiting for you to eat up on this list of 28 healthy candy options for Halloween ...

If you look at the nutritional facts, most energy bars seem healthy. But many don't deliver as well as you might expect.

In the current bar-wars environment, there are literally hundreds of these prewrapped and portable products competing for shelf space at gyms, health-food ... fat as a candy bar.

Scott Semler for The New York Times. Prop stylist: Maggie DiMarco. Protein bars are everywhere. They’re presented as healthy snacks for when you’re on the go or as part of a workout routine.

Inhalable, like a bag of chips. In short, these dried citrus seem to be that holy grail of snack foods: healthy candy. Here’s how to make them. Photography by Marie Viljoen Above: 10 lbs of ...

THEY’RE IN GROCERY STORES, GAS STATIONS AND GYM BAGS, ENERGY BARS PROMISE A QUICK BOOST WHEN YOU NEED IT. MANY AREN’T AS HEALTHY AS YOU MIGHT EXPECT, AND SOME HAVE AS MUCH SUGAR AS A CANDY BAR.

About 23% of food stamp dollars go to purchase items like soda, candy, desserts and salty snacks. That contributes to higher obesity rates.