Popcorn is a really cheap and easy snack to prepare for all the family. Popcorn is fun to make and
really great to share. The best way to cook (pop your popcorn) is air popped. You do not use any butter, salt, oil or sugar. 

Popcorn contains 8.3mg of zinc per 100g. This is a great mineral as it is responsible for over 200 functions within your body. There are only 30 calories in a cup of plain popcorn.

Try and cook some popcorn in this fantastic popcorn maker and let us know what you think.

Go on give it a go.

We would love to know what you add to your popcorn to make it as healthy as possible.

We have just bought a great little Popcorn Maker from Amazon. There is no oil needed so it produces a delicious low-calorie snack. It cost £19.95 with free delivery. Take a look here.

New research from University of Scranton (Pa) ran a lab analysis on the content in several types of brands of popcorn and found that the crunch hull is rich in polyphenols - antioxidants that
prevent damage to cells.

More reseach has to be done as it may turn out that the polyphenols may not be in the body long enough to have an effect. If the polyphenols reside largely in the hull, which
is principally insolouble fiber and not digested, they are not sitting in our digestive system for an extended period of time, and we may not absorb all the antioxidants.