Nutrition Nugget: Khloud Protein Popcorn

[00:00:26] That's cloud with A-K-H-L-O-U-D. So this is Klo Kardashian's popcorn brand. And I will admit, I do watch their show. I am very entertained by the family dynamics, all the things. And I also am normally not wowed or wooed by celebrity food brands or celebrity brands in general. So I didn't buy this. I knew about it, but like thought nothing of it.

[00:01:14] And I was like, seriously? Okay. So I tried it. It was really good. I enjoyed it. I did not ask the host for the bag to look at the label. I didn't wanna be that person at the party, right? Like everybody knows what I do for a living, but you know, so I figured we'll do that together. Looking at this label. And essentially, from what I knew of it before, it was, you know, it's popcorn that they sprinkled protein powder on.

[00:02:09] Right? I enjoyed it. You're allowed to enjoy something and onward, right? But of course we're gonna look at it together. So I gave you the rundown of what I knew of it. You know what? I had heard that it was like this popcorn with some protein powder on it. When I go to their website to get the info, they have a banner that says seven grams of protein per serving.

[00:02:59] [00:03:00] So we do have a nutrition nugget just on popcorn that you can go back to for more on like the corn that's used in popcorn and all of that stuff for today. I wanna pop over to their nutrition facts and look at what they actually have in here. So they have three flavors. There's olive oil and sea salt, sweet and salty, kettle corn and white ched.

[00:03:36] Kelly Carter: Typically popcorn's like three to five cups when you're looking at servings.

[00:03:41] Jenn Trepeck - Host: probably. I think it's like three cups popped versus like Yeah. Yeah. One cup, right? So just a note, you're probably not only eating one serving here. Okay, but here we go. Okay. One cup, 150 calories, nine grams of fat, of which there's four grams of saturated fat, [00:04:00] 12 grams of carbs with one gram of fiber, five grams of sugar, all of which are added sugar, and seven grams of protein.

[00:04:26] Right? Remember one ounce, so all in, if you had one cup of this. If you needed a as a snack and you are hungry, this one cup would maybe last like an hour, maybe an hour and a half, you know, tops, and then you'd be like looking for food again. I also think, as we said, like this is really easy to eat more than one cup, and.

[00:05:24] So where does this leave us? Okay. I like that we can pronounce all the things right. There is nothing in here that has sent us researching new ingredients, so I like that. If you have a challenge with whey, you'll probably, you know, or lactose, I should say, you'll probably be fine with this because it's protein isolate in their like about, or our story section of the website.

[00:06:15] You know, everybody gets to decide on all of that. But I will say the cane sugar thing made me especially curious if this is just because it's the kettle corn flavor, or if they have this sugar in all of the flavor. So I took a quick look. The olive oil and sea salt flavor. So the olive oil and sea salt flavor has a little bit less total fat, less saturated fat, because it doesn't have the coconut oil, it also doesn't have the sugar.

[00:07:05] So that one has nine grams of net carbs. So just making it into, you know, our typical guideline of single digit net carbs for a single packaged food. So I appreciate in general that the three flavors have different nutrition facts, because I think so often companies have these different flavors and.

[00:07:35] Kelly Carter: I would say too, however, I would actively measure what One Cup looks like, just yes.

[00:07:56] Jenn Trepeck - Host: So when I tried it, we were using like actual drinking cups and [00:08:00] like putting a little bit in like the cup and then kind of eating it outta the cup.

[00:08:28] Like it's fine, enjoy popcorn as popcorn, you know, but if this, you enjoy it and it gives you a different flavor of popcorn, you know, especially for the kettle corn compared to other kettle corns out there, like I would think I would choose this one. But again, it's sort of what role is it playing in the scheme of.

[00:08:49] Kelly Carter: I love that take because protein is having a moment because I feel like carbs. Yes. Having a moment of like, don't eat the naked carbs. So everyone's like, let's just add protein to [00:09:00] everything. Again, if you're thinking I'm gonna have popcorn for dinner. Yeah, that's, uh, let's not, yeah, let's not.

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