Reese's Snack Size Peanut Butter Eggs Nutritional Value

Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs, like their Peanut Butter Cups, are perennial favorites among chocolate and peanut-butter lovers. Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs become available around Easter, and they come in several sizes, including an individually-wrapped snack size. The serving size for this candy is one egg.

Calories

One Reese's Peanut Butter Egg has 90 calories, or around 4 percent of your recommended daily calorie intake, based on a 2,000-calorie-a-day diet. 45 of these calories come from fat.

Carbohydrates

One snack-size egg contains 9 grams of carbohydrates, and eight of these grams come from simple sugars. This equals 3 percent of your recommended daily carbohydrate intake. Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs include sugar and dextrose. The non-fat milk in the product also contains carbohydrates.

Protein

One egg contains only 2 grams of protein, so don't count on Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs to satisfy a high-protein diet. This protein mostly comes from peanuts. Your protein intake should add up to around 60 grams per day, according to the Merck Manuals Online Medical Library. One egg has 4 percent of your recommended daily protein intake.

Fat

One serving of these peanut butter eggs contains 5 grams of fat, including 2 grams of saturated fat, the type most likely to contribute to heart disease and atherosclerosis. One egg supplies 10 percent of your daily allowance of saturated fats. Cocoa butter and a blend of vegetable oils (including partially hydrogenated palm kernel and soybean oils) make up the fats in this product. Partially hydrogenated fats are trans fats, the worst type of fats for your heart. The nutritional label says that this product has zero grams of trans fats. However, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration does not require nutritional labels to count trans fats if the total percentage in the product equals less than 0.5 percent, so one egg may contain a small amount of trans fats.

Sodium

One snack-size peanut butter egg contains 65 mg of sodium, or 3 percent of your daily recommended sodium intake. The average American consumes 3,436 mg of sodium daily, but the American Heart Association recommends lowering your sodium intake to 1,500 mg or less to alleviate blood-pressure concerns.