A Simple Irresistible Deep Fried Mars Bar Recipe (2024)

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How unhealthy is a deep fried Mars bar? ›

Nutritional therapist Heather Lickley explains: “A deep-fried Mars bar is mostly empty calories that fills you up and produces a massive blood sugar spike.

The dish originated at a chip shop in Scotland as a novelty item. Since various mass media began reporting on the practice in the mid-1990s – often as a critical commentary on how unhealthy the Scottish diet was – the popularity of the dish has spread.

Sugar, Glucose Syrup (Sources Include Wheat), Milk Solids, Vegetable Fat, Cocoa Butter, Cocoa Mass, Barley Malt Extract, Cocoa Powder, Emulsifier (Soy Lecithin), Salt, Egg White, Natural Flavours (Vanilla Extract).

Coat completely in batter. Carefully lower into hot oil and fry until golden brown. Serve, with ice cream or french fries, if you're so inclined.

Studies show a bar with 70 percent cacao offers optimal health benefits, and 85 percent dark chocolate has mood-boosting qualities, according to a 2022 study. Go for the highest percentage you'll actually enjoy, though — eating chocolate should be fun.

When you're trying to maintain a healthy diet, whether to lose weight or to keep your weight steady, it's important not to make candy bars part of your regular routine and instead use them as an occasional treat. Mars chocolate nutritional information tells us most of the candy bar is sugar and fat.

In most of the world, a Mars bar is a chocolate bar with nougat and caramel, coated with milk chocolate.

Imported from England, Mars Bar is made of nougat and caramel and is covered in creamy milk chocolate. The Mars bar was sold as the the Milky Way bar in North America.

MARS® Chocolate Bars are an irresistible blend of chocolate, caramel and nougat.

What did Mars bars used to be called? ›

While it bears the name of its creator, the first chocolate bar to come from Mars, Inc. was actually named the Mar-O-Bar by Frank Mars, and later renamed the Milky Way.

There are two varieties: the US Milky Way bar, which is sold as the Mars bar worldwide, including Canada; and the global Milky Way bar, which is sold as the 3 Musketeers in the US and Canada (neither bar is sold as Milky Way in Canada).

Public service announcement: it's good to eat Mars bars straight from the freezer, but don't try it with a Crunchie: freezing makes them totally brittle and they turn into dust.

It has long been touted that one of these beauties will come in at a scorching 1200 calories, but according to the Scotsman the calories in a battered mars bar actually tot up to somewhere between 600-900 calories, which if you think about it isn't too bad.

Calorie and Nutritional Information for a Standard Mars Bar

A standard size bar contains 11.5% of reference intake/daily value of an average adult (2000 calories).

Erdman attributes the drop in cholesterol numbers (total cholesterol by 2 percent and LDL or “bad” cholesterol by 5.3 percent) to the plant sterols that have been added to the bar and the drop in blood pressure to the flavanols found in dark chocolate.

Take your average 53 gram Mars Bar for example. It contains 244 calories, or 1,020 kilojoules. To burn that amount of energy walking with a friend, you'd have to do almost two hours of exercise to use up all of that yummy chocolate fuel.