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 snack carried 227 calories, listed sugar in its first five ingredients about 60 percent of the time, and that not a single snack in the machines qualified as a good source of fiber. The decision in front of that lit panel takes ten seconds and almost never involves a label. Here is a two-number rule that fits in ten seconds, what to grab, and what the "lighter" options are not fixing.
