What makes a healthy snack? Choose fruits, veggies, whole grains, and protein foods to get the most out of your snacks. Eating a healthy snack can help you to stay focused, give you energy, and keep hunger in check. Although snacks can be a regular and important part of a healthy diet, they can also lead to health problems. What differentiates the two scenarios is one’s snacking behavior: what you snack on, why you snack, frequency of snacking, and how snacks fit into your overall eating plan.

Choosing snacks that are lower in sodium can help you stay healthy. Fruits, vegetables, unsalted seeds, and nuts make great lower-sodium snacks. your best choices for healthy snacks include low-fat dairy, low-fat protein and complex carbohydrates (carbohydrates with more nutrients, or healthy stuff) While junk food are not advisable for consumption, there are beneficial ones. They include dark chocolate, ice cream, popcorn, potato chips, and Oatmeal cookies. If you are a fitness enthusiast fond of jumping rope, these junk foods will not affect your performance.

Healthy snacks can be

• Nuts: Like Peanuts, Almonds, Hazelnuts, Cashews, Walnuts, Macadamias, Brazil nuts, Pistachios
• Whole fruits and vegetables: Berries, Apples, Banana’s, Cucumber, Bell peppers, Homemade Kale chips, with olive oil, sea salt and nutritional yeast, Celery sticks with nut butter, guacamole, or hummus, Soybeans or Edamame, Sliced avocado or homemade guacamole with cilantro, tomato, onion and squeeze of lime
• Popcorn
• Yogurt
• DIY “Energy Bites”
• Cottage Cheese
• Peanut butter and Fruit
• Pita and hummus
• Hard-boiled eggs
• Cheese
• Chia pudding
• DIY trail mix
• Turkey or ham pinwheels
• Smoothie
• Oatmeal
• Spring rolls
• Canned fish with crackers