Healthy Vending Machine Snacks: This Week on AOL Health

Posted on Feb 23rd 2010 11:00AM by Ashley Neglia

Filed Under: Diet & Weight Loss, Nutrition & Supplements

When your mid-afternoon snack attack hits, you may not always have something healthy on hand. Enter the infamous vending machine.

Here at AOL Health and That's Fit, we're forced to pass our vending machines every time we get up to grab a cup of water, which means one of us can often be found digging around in our pockets and scrounging around our desk looking for loose change.

We know that the vending machine is inherently full of sweet-and-salty temptations that sing out to us from behind the glass, but that doesn't mean we have to fall prey to their song.

AOL Health's writer and nutritionist, Victoria Stein, admits that vending machines can be a "diet minefield," but sandwiched between the candy bars and giant bottles of soda are some healthy alternatives, like trail mix, granola and cereal bars. For a complete list of which vending machine foods won't ruin your diet, check out AOL Health.

Need some snack inspiration? Check out 10 snacks under 175 calories.

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empowermephotoguy 2-23-2010 @ 11:38AM

To avoid the "minefield" of vending machine snacks, you need to plan ahead and bring your own snacks. If you eat throughout the day (every 2-3 hours) you won't hungry and you can avoid that devilish vending maching temptation!

Mike 9-30-2010 @ 3:59PM

I know that there are a few healthy food vending machine companies that focus on providing natural and organic alternatives to traditional vending snacks. One is fresh healthy vending, another is vend naturals and another is human healthy vending. We looked several options for our office. As anything, before buying I recommend doing some research by searching fresh health vending reviews, vend naturals reviews and human healthy vending reviews.

Fresh vending locations 11-15-2010 @ 12:54AM

Fresh healthy vending locations finding places to install your machines is made easily accomplished via our heavily national database of schools, shopping malls, health clubs, hospitals and office buildings where new Fresh Vending machines can be successfully operated.

Fresh healthy vending machines 1-03-2011 @ 12:15AM

Fresh School Healthy Vending Program has been introduced to ensure students of all ages have the opportunity to purchase Natural and Organic Healthy products through convenient and state of the art vending systems.

recipfresh 4-13-2011 @ 4:00AM

Fresh Healthy Vending is the only vending franchise company that offers locations 100% juices, fresh vegetables and fruits, smoothies, and yogurts in every one of its healthy vending machines. potato chips and low fat popcorn like Pirate's Booty.
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schoolfresh2 4-25-2011 @ 11:01PM

Fruit juices are mostly packed with sugar, making the fresh fruit the better bet for the health conscious. Fresh healthy vending using vegetable juices are often tart to the taste and put a lot of people off drinking them. Combine the two, however, and you have a naturally sweetened drink that fills people up and contains a pound of fruit. The ingredients in fresh vending of Naked Green Machine, for instance, are listed as spirulina, chlorella, broccoli, green tea extract, spinach etc.