Eating a Little Debbie Peanut Butter Crunch Bar will add little to your daily nutrition. Choosing a snack like this bar is a discretionary choice based on taste, not an attempt to reach dietary goals. You should know how many calories the bar contains to know what trade-offs are appropriate for the basic food groups of carbs, fat and protein.
Discretionary Calories
The 280 calories in a Little Debbie Peanut Butter Crunch Bar can be subtracted from a total daily calorie intake from other areas of fat and carbs without severely altering your diet. MyPyramid.gov states you can exchange discretionary calories to keep your diet on track. Simply take the total of a possible 2,000-calorie daily diet and decrease 14 percent of the total calories from another area.
Fat, Carbs and Protein
The values for fat, protein and carbs in a healthy diet equal a ratio of about 1:1:2 in percentage of total daily calories. The values of a Little Debbie Peanut Butter Crunch Bar are 15g of fat, 32g of carbs and 5g of protein. This equals about a quarter of the daily intake of fat in a healthy diet and one-tenth of the carbs and protein needed. Cut fat in other areas of the diet while adding protein and carbs to help balance the total.
Minerals, Sodium, Sugar and Fiber
Little Debbie Peanut Butter Crunch Bars contain 6 percent of the daily need for iron and 19g of processed sugar. The bar only includes 1g, or 4 percent of needed dietary fiber. The 190g of sodium is about 8 percent of the FDA recommended daily intake. The bar contributes no vitamin A, C or calcium to your daily intake.
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