How many calories in trail mix
A handful of trail mix has about 190 kcal, from the nuts and the dried fruit.
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To burn it off
Trail mix is nuts plus dried fruit, sometimes with chocolate or seeds. A handful has 12 g of fat, 18 g of carbs and 5 g of protein.
It was made for long walks, where packing lots of energy into a small bag is the whole point. On the sofa, that same point works against you.
Mixes with chocolate or yoghurt coated bits come in a little higher. The plain nut and raisin ones sit around this number.
Tips
- 1Make your own with more nuts and fewer sweets.
- 2Split a big bag into small pots on Sunday for the week.
- 3Save it for the hike or the long cycle where it actually helps.
Where it comes from
Nuts and raisins as a hiking snack go back at least to the 1910s, when American outdoorsman Horace Kephart wrote in his camping guide that a handful each of shelled nuts and raisins, with a cake of sweet chocolate, will carry a man far on the trail. The nickname gorp is often said to stand for good old raisins and peanuts, but that explanation may have been made up later.
Where does our food come from? · Source: Wikipedia, Trail mix (quoting Horace Kephart, Camping and Woodcraft)
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Questions
Is trail mix high in calories?
Yes, for its size. A handful is about 190 kcal.
How many calories in two handfuls?
About 380 kcal.
Is trail mix the same as student mix?
Very similar. Nuts and raisins either way, so count it about the same.
Does trail mix go off?
Yes, eventually. The nuts slowly turn rancid, so keep it sealed somewhere cool and dark, and bin it if it smells bitter or like old paint.
Which has more calories in trail mix, the nuts or the raisins?
The nuts. Gram for gram they have about twice the calories of raisins, so a mix heavy on nuts lands a bit higher.
