Low calorie snacks: 30 ideas under 200 calories, with the numbers

What counts as a low calorie snack on this list?

On this list, a low calorie snack has 200 kcal or less in one serving, and the page checks every snack against that ceiling. The lists that rank for low calorie snacks draw the line at 100, 150 or 200 calories: WebMD's "25 Super Snacks" stay at 100 or less, EatingWell's snack recipes and BBC Good Food's ideas at 200 or less, by their titles on the results page (checked October 31, 2026). This page takes the highest of the three and groups the snacks under the other two, so you can stop at the ceiling you use.

The ceiling sorts snacks; it is not an amount you need. A snack of 40 kcal is not better than one of 180: it is smaller, and the right size depends on your day, your hunger and what you eat around it.

Each snack is for one serving: the ingredients in grams, then one or two steps under its name below each table. Calories, protein, carbohydrate, fat and fiber are added up from those grams with the values per 100 g of USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy, for the generic food, not a brand. Oil is counted where a snack uses it; salt, herbs and spices are not. Cherry tomatoes are counted with USDA's values for red ripe tomatoes, and popcorn is weighed popped. The weight column is the food you eat, without rind, pits or shells.

The IZeat healthy check, the definition the Recipes section uses for meals, asks for at least 20 g of protein and 80 g of vegetables, fruit or legumes in one serving. 1 of the 30 snacks passes it: raspberry protein shake. A snack of 200 kcal or less rarely holds 20 g of protein, so this is expected and says nothing against the snacks. Sodium, saturated fat and added sugar are not computed.

IZeat wrote these snacks and computed their figures from USDA values; creators' tested versions will replace them as they are published.

Which snacks have 100 calories or less?

These 15 snacks have 100 kcal or less per serving. Most are fruit or vegetables, alone or with a spoon of hummus, yogurt, cheese, an egg or tuna; the protein comes from the second food.

Cucumber slices with lemon and salt

1. Slice the cucumber, squeeze the lemon juice over and add a pinch of salt.

Celery sticks with hummus

1. Cut the celery into sticks and dip them in the hummus.

Jicama sticks with lime and chili

1. Peel the jicama and cut it into sticks.
2. Squeeze the lime juice over and sprinkle with chili powder.

Tuna on cucumber rounds

1. Slice the cucumber into rounds.
2. Top each round with a little drained tuna, pepper and lemon.

Raspberries

1. Rinse the raspberries just before eating them.

Cherry tomatoes with mozzarella

1. Halve the cherry tomatoes and toss them with the diced mozzarella, salt and basil.

Strawberries with a Greek yogurt dip

1. Stir a little vanilla or cinnamon into the Greek yogurt.
2. Dip the strawberries in it.

Frozen grapes

1. Wash and dry the grapes, then freeze them on a tray until firm; keep them in a bag in the freezer.

Watermelon wedges

1. Cut the watermelon into wedges or cubes, rind removed before weighing.

Edamame with sea salt

1. Cook the shelled edamame from frozen and sprinkle with sea salt.

Sugar snap peas with hummus

1. Rinse the snap peas and dip them in the hummus.

Hard-boiled egg with cherry tomatoes

1. Boil the egg until the yolk is set, cool and peel it; keep it in the fridge.
2. Eat it with the cherry tomatoes and a pinch of salt.

Air-popped popcorn

1. Pop the kernels in an air popper, or in a covered bowl in the microwave with no oil, and season with salt or spices.

Chocolate Greek yogurt

1. Stir the cocoa powder into the Greek yogurt until smooth, with a little cinnamon if you like.

Cottage cheese with cantaloupe

1. Cube the cantaloupe and spoon it over the cottage cheese.

Which snacks have 101 to 150 calories?

These 8 snacks have 101 to 150 kcal per serving: nuts, roasted chickpeas, fruit with peanut butter or cottage cheese, Greek yogurt, chia pudding and a square of dark chocolate. Nuts carry their calories in little weight, 25 g of pistachios for 140 kcal, so they are weighed here.

Almonds

1. Weigh out the almonds, about 17 of them, and eat them as they are.

Dark chocolate with strawberries

1. Eat the square of dark chocolate with the strawberries, or melt it and drizzle it over them.

Apple slices with peanut butter

1. Slice the apple and spread the peanut butter thinly over the slices.

Greek yogurt with blueberries and honey

1. Top the Greek yogurt with the blueberries and drizzle the honey over.

Chia pudding with strawberries

1. Stir the chia seeds into the milk, cover and leave in the fridge overnight.
2. Top with the sliced strawberries.

Pistachios

1. Weigh out the shelled pistachios and eat them as they are.

Roasted chickpeas

1. Pat the cooked chickpeas dry and toss them with the oil and spices.
2. Roast them in the oven or an air fryer, shaking once or twice, until crisp; they soften after a day.

Pear with cottage cheese

1. Slice the pear and eat it with the cottage cheese, with cinnamon over the top.

Which snacks have 151 to 200 calories?

These 7 snacks have 151 to 200 kcal per serving: bigger plates such as hummus with three vegetables, two eggs, a protein shake, or toast and a rice cake with a topping.

Two hard-boiled eggs

1. Boil the eggs until the yolks are set, cool and peel them; keep them in the fridge.
2. Eat them with salt and pepper.

Apple with string cheese

1. Eat one stick of part-skim mozzarella string cheese with the apple, whole or sliced.

Raspberry protein shake

1. Blend the protein powder, raspberries and milk with a few ice cubes until smooth.

Ricotta toast with strawberries

1. Toast the bread and spread the ricotta over it.
2. Top with the sliced strawberries.

Rice cake with peanut butter and banana

1. Spread the peanut butter on the rice cake.
2. Top with the sliced banana.

Hummus and vegetable plate

1. Cut the carrot, pepper and cucumber into sticks.
2. Serve them with the hummus.

Popcorn with parmesan

1. Air-pop the kernels.
2. Toss the popcorn with the oil, then with the finely grated parmesan.

Which low calorie snacks give the most food for their calories?

The snacks with the most grams per 100 kcal are fruit and vegetables, which are mostly water: cucumber slices with lemon and salt (657 g), watermelon wedges (333 g) and jicama sticks with lime and chili (266 g). Nuts, cheese and dark chocolate are the opposite: a small weight carries the calories. People looking for "high volume" snacks compare this figure; the table ranks the snacks of this page by it. The foods themselves, compared per 100 g, will have their own page, high volume low calorie foods.

Weight is one thing you can compare, beside protein and fiber, which the group tables give. How full a snack leaves you varies from person to person and from day to day, and this page makes no promise about it.

What does "low calorie" mean on a packaged snack?

On a US package, "low calorie" is a claim with a legal definition: 40 calories or less per reference amount customarily consumed, and, for foods whose reference amount is 30 g or 2 tablespoons or less, also per 50 g (21 CFR 101.60, checked October 31, 2026). That is much lower than the 100 to 200 kcal the snack lists use, so most snacks on this page could not carry the claim; plain celery could, and the regulation gives "celery, a low calorie food" as its example.

• Read the calories per serving and the serving size on the Nutrition Facts panel, then the servings per container: a bag can hold several servings.
• Check the protein and the fiber, which the panel lists per serving, if they matter to you.
• Check the added sugar, which the panel lists separately from the total sugar.
• A 100-calorie pack fixes the portion; it says nothing about what the snack is made of.

This page names no brand: a packaged product's own label is the only figure for that product.

Which low calorie snacks have the most protein?

6 of the 30 snacks reach 10 g of protein: raspberry protein shake (23.9 g, 164 kcal), Greek yogurt with blueberries and honey (15.7 g, 132 kcal), chocolate Greek yogurt (15.2 g, 94 kcal), two hard-boiled eggs (12.6 g, 155 kcal), cottage cheese with cantaloupe (11 g, 99 kcal) and tuna on cucumber rounds (10.9 g, 61 kcal). Greek yogurt, cottage cheese, tuna, eggs and whey carry it. The high protein snacks list gathers snacks of 10 g of protein or more whatever their calories; snacks that keep the protein high and the calories low will have their own page, high protein low calorie snacks.

How do you count a snack in your day?

A snack counts like any meal: its calories and protein add to the day's total, from a list like this one or from the label. A snack of 200 kcal or less is one part of a day, not a target for it, and a day of very little food is not what this page suggests. How many calories you need is personal: the calorie calculator gives a reference from your age, size and activity. Meals of 500 kcal or less are on the low calorie meals list. This page sets no target.

IZeat is the five-star chef calorie tracker that suggests satisfying, great-tasting meals, so you enjoy every calorie you have left. It works inside ChatGPT, Claude or any other assistant: IZeat knows your numbers for the day, which foods fill you up and what you like.

After you connect your assistant, say the snack in one sentence. IZeat logs it and returns calories, protein, carbohydrate and fat for the day, with the source of each figure; with a target you chose, it shows what remains, without judging a high or a low day.