We photographed 150 calories of all our favorite snacks — and the results are depressing

Portion Sizes 3 OreosHollis Johnson

When’s the last time you ate just two Oreos?

Yeah, we can’t recall the last time we did either. Yet that is the standard FDA serving size listed on the back of the package.*

Read on to see what the standard serving size — or around 150 calories — of your other favorite snack foods looks like.

Bear Naked Go Bananas Granola: 1/4 cup

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Granola is commonly touted as a health food, but in reality it’s pretty high in sugar, carbs, and calories and not very high in protein. A quarter-cup serving has:

150 calories
7 grams of fat
18 grams of carbohydrates
3 grams of protein

Twizzlers: 4 twists

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This movie snack is fat-free but still pretty high in calories. Just four sticks have:

160 calories
0.5g fat
36g carbs
1g protein

Skippy Creamy Peanut Butter: 2 tbsp

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Despite being a classic sandwich ingredient and go-to snack, peanut butter is pretty high in calories and fat, with two tablespoons of the spread having:

190 calories
16g fat
7g carbs
7g protein


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