That's like eating a pound of baby back ribs topped with a scoop of Häagen-Dazs ice cream-except that the popcorn has an additional day’s worth of saturated fat. Its large popcorn has 1,030 calories and 57 grams of saturated fat. Asking for topping is like asking for oil on French fries or potato chips, according to CSPI.ĪMC, the second largest theater chain, also pops in coconut oil but has smaller serving sizes. And every tablespoon of "buttery" oil topping adds another 130 calories. Even shared with another person, that size provides nearly an entire day’s worth of the kind of fat that clogs arteries and promotes heart disease. That’s about as many calories as a Pizza Hut Personal Pan Pepperoni Pizza-except the popcorn has three times the saturated fat. (The large size looks bigger, thanks to its titanic tub, but it costs a dollar more and comes with a free refill.) A "small" at Regal has 670 calories and 34 grams of saturated fat. Regal’s medium and large sizes each had 1,200 calories and, thanks to being popped in coconut oil, 60 grams of saturated fat. But CSPI's lab tests found that those numbers were understated. I like to pour half of the butter, toss, and then pour the remaining half so that you get more even coverage.Regal says that its medium popcorn has 720 calories and that its large has 960.
Clarified butter gives you a clean, rich, buttery flavor. Regular butter contains water and milk solids, which lead to a soggy snack. What kind of butter is on popcorn?Ĭlarified butter is the best bet for coating your kernels. The lower water content in oil makes for less soggy popcorn, something we can all get behind. Most theaters don’t use real butter, but some form of buttery topping, which is basically just butter-flavored oil. The kernels are the same as the ones at the grocery store, but theaters elevate their game with butter–sort of. Why does movie theater popcorn taste better? The popcorn salt that we use to pop the corn with could contain dairy. The Canola Oil, which we pop our corn in, is gluten free, but some individuals with Celiac Disease experience a laxative effect.
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