Cookies are

comprised

of basic

dough made

with butter,

sugar, eggs,

flour, salt

and

leavening.

To this

basic

dough, other elements can be added, raising the

nutrients as well as the calorie and fat content of

the cookies. These can be walnuts, almonds,

pecans, peanut butter, oats, raisins, dried berries

and other fruits, chocolate chips, caramel, sea salt,

flavoring (vanilla and rhum) and spices like

cinnamon and cloves.

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You’ll get the most from a cookie (and lessen your

consumption of the calories and fat) through

constituent control, choice of good cookies, or

making them yourself instead of buying them off

the shelf. Eat not more than two regular sized

cookies instead of half a dozen or jumbo cookies.

Let’s look at several types of store purchased

cookies and their nutritional information—soft

chocolate chip cookies, oatmeal cookies, chocolate

sandwich cookies with crème filling, brownies,

sugar cookie and shortbread. Of the half a dozen

cookies, the brownies had the highest overall total

fat (9.1 grams), calories (227 calories) and sugar

(20.5 grams).

Meanwhile, the shortbread

cookie shows to be the best

cookie amongst this

selection. One piece contains

only 40.2 calories, 1.2 grams

sugar, and 1.9 grams total

fat. It’s even better than one

unpeeled raw apple (at least

in terms of sugar and calorie

content), which has 77.5

calories, 15.5 grams sugar,

and 0.3 grams total.

The soft chocolate chip cookies seem to be in the

middle range, as it has 54.5 calories, 4.5 grams

sugar, and 2.5 grams total fat. The chocolate

sandwich cookies didn’t do so bad, with only 53.9

calories, 2.3 grams total fat and 4.7 grams sugar.

The sugar cookie is a few calories higher, at 71.7

grams, 3.2 grams total fat and 5.7 grams sugar.

You’ll be okay eating them at one apiece.

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