
(Each gave us nutrition facts for its popcorn. Here's what we found when we sent samples of popcorn and toppings from the three largest theater chains to an independent lab for analysis. bag of potato chips, and that's assuming your theater pops in the best oil available and you get it without the "buttery" topping.


Eating a tub of movie theater popcorn is more like eating an 8 oz. Turns out the Popcorn Board is right…if you're talking low-fat popcorn or (fat-free) air-popped. It sounds like they're munching on a stalk of broccoli, for goodness sakes. Maybe that's one reason people fork over $4 to $8 for a bag or tub of popcorn when they enter a movie theater.

"It's a whole grainįood that's low in calories and fat and it's a complex carbohydrate." "Did you know that popcorn is among the healthiest-and tastiest-snacks around?" asks the Web site of the Popcorn Board, an industry group.
