Five Healthier Halloween Candy Choices for Trick-or-Treat

To say candy in any form is healthy would be a lie. But, some candy is healthier than others. Serving -- or limiting your kids to eating -- these five candy choices will give you some consolation that it could be worse.

Loyola Medicine says the average child will bring home a bag of candy that contains as much as 4,800 calories, three cups of sugar and about a pound and a half of fat.

Shape Magazine compared per serving calories in the most popular candy and found these five to be the lowest.

• Dum-Dum Pops
• Hershey's Kisses
• Butterscotch Candy
• Double Bubble Gum
• Starburst

Loyola's Gary Sigman, MD also suggests snack sized bags of popcorn, low fat granola bars or 100 calorie bags of cookies or snacks as a substitutes for candy.

Shape Magazine says the candy with the highest number of calories include:

• Kit Kat, snack size (210 calories)
• Candy Corn, one ounce (150 calories)
• Twix, fun size (125 calories)
• Junior Mints (120 calories)
• Nerds, one ounce (113 calories)

Other candy high in calories, even in snack size, include Snickers, M&Ms, Reece's, Butterfinger and Nestle Crunch.