What’s REALLY in Your Movie Theater Popcorn?

I offered my thoughts  on movie theater popcorn in this piece for LiveStrong:

Flavacol adds 190 milligrams of sodium to Cinemark’s junior bag of popcorn — fairly reasonable if you can stick to this smallest of servings. As Maya Feller, RD, of Maya Feller Nutrition, points out, “Foods with 140 milligrams or less are considered low in sodium.” But go up to a true “small” bag from Cinemark and you get 450 milligrams, or 20 percent of the recommended daily value, says Feller, noting that it’s “definitely not low in sodium.”

“Sitting in a movie theater and eating is an act of mindless eating,” cautions Feller. “You’re actually there to watch a movie. Eating becomes passive. It’s really hard to say I’m going to eat half the bag and stick to it.”