American Heart Association


Healthy Snack Substitutions
How low can you go? Reading the food label and comparing the amounts of fat in these different snack products will give you the know-how - and the motivation - you need to make healthy snacking choices.

Instead of

Enjoy

Fried tortilla chips

Baked tortilla chips (reduced sodium)

Regular potato or corn chips

Pretzels or low-fat potato chips (reduced sodium)

High-fat cookies and crackers

Fat-free cookies, crackers or rice cakes

Devil's food cake

Angel food cake

Ice cream bars

Frozen fruit bars

Pudding made with whole milk

Pudding made from fat-free milk

Ice cream

Sherbet, ice milk or low-fat frozen yogurt

Doughnut

Bagel