{"id":17894,"date":"2014-10-30T23:22:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T06:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=17894"},"modified":"2014-10-30T23:22:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T06:22:26","slug":"trick-or-treat-food-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/trick-or-treat-food-dilemma\/","title":{"rendered":"Trick or Treat Food Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/trickcan.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>There&#8217;s a dilemma when trying to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/visit\/halloween-candy-effects-of-sugar.html\">avoid giving sugar<\/a> to trick or treaters <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>5,000 calories in the average trick or treat goody bag<\/li>\n<li>4 cups of sugar in a single kid&#8217;s Halloween candy &#8212; that&#8217;s a 2-pound bag of granulated sugar<\/li>\n<li>One-third of\u00a0children in California are obese<\/li>\n<li>Non-GMO cane sugar treats may be better (in that Dow Roundup chemicals are avoided) but there&#8217;s still the problem of sugar\u00a0content<\/li>\n<li>The majority of sugar-free candies and gums contain saccharin\u00a0or Aspartame, which can be more harmful than sugar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Other options\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pre-packaged nuts or trail mix<\/li>\n<li>Trinkets and toys<\/li>\n<li>Coins<\/li>\n<li>Gift certificates for food such as McDonald&#8217;s Halloween Treat Pack good for apple slices, juice or milk and hamburger or Go Gurt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Halloween trick or treats<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Age 60+ most likely to hand out candy (84%)<\/li>\n<li>Midwest hands out most candy (79% answer door)<\/li>\n<li>California low in candy-giving this year due to Halloween falling on Friday (estimated 70% or less will answer door)<\/li>\n<li>Trending &#8212; parents\u00a0seek\u00a0malls, downtown\u00a0districts, parks &amp; recreation events\u00a0and\u00a0trunk or treat events<\/li>\n<li>M&amp;Ms and Reese&#8217;s Peanut Butter Cups are most popular candies in America<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a dilemma when trying to\u00a0avoid giving sugar to trick or treaters 5,000 calories in the average trick or treat goody bag 4 cups of sugar in a single kid&#8217;s Halloween candy &#8212; that&#8217;s a 2-pound bag of granulated sugar One-third of\u00a0children in California are obese Non-GMO cane sugar treats may be better (in that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17894"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}