Protein & Nutrition Blog – Marmels
Protein & Nutrition Blog – Marmels
Healthy Vending Machine Snacks: What to Grab and Skip
by Mo Mandegar, PhD
on Sep 06 2026
A four-week audit of campus vending machines found the average snackcarried 227 calories, listed sugar in its first five ingredients about 60percent of the time, and that not a single snack in the machinesqualified as a good source of fiber. The decision in front of that litpanel takes ten seconds and almost never involves a label. Here is atwo-number rule that fits in ten seconds, what to grab, and what the"lighter" options are not fixing.
