How many calories are in PopCorners?
A 1 oz bag of PopCorners, about 21 crisps, carries 123 calories, and the crisps run 438 calories per 100 g. That is the USDA figure for plain popped corn chips. The Sea Salt bag itself is printed as 120 and White Cheddar as 140, a 20-calorie spread across the same 28 g.
You'd need to walk about 25 minutes to burn the 123 calories in a 1 oz bag (28 g).
How long does it take to burn off PopCorners?
A 1 oz bag (28 g) is 123 kcal. Enter your weight and the amount you ate to see how long it takes you to burn that off:
lb
| Activity | Time to burn 123 kcal |
|---|---|
| Walking, brisk | 25 min |
| Cycling, moderate | 15 min |
| Swimming, moderate | 18 min |
| Jogging | 14 min |
| Weight training, moderate | 27 min |
Times are for a 155 lb adult at a steady pace; change the weight to see yours. The amount is set to the portion in the text (28 g); change it to what you actually ate. BodyPal works this out from your steps automatically.
On this page
- PopCorners quick facts
- US servings from a mini bag to two ounces
- PopCorners flavors compared
- Sodium is the row to watch
- How do PopCorners compare
- Most popular popcorners brands
- FAQ
PopCorners quick facts
The headline figure comes from the USDA survey record FNDDS 2708242, "Popcorn chips, plain". That code covers popped corn crisps of the PopCorners type, and it is the only USDA entry for them with a complete panel: fiber, saturated fat and sugars all filled in. The brand's own Sea Salt label sits at 429 per 100 g and 120 per bag, which is label rounding on the same food, not a different source. Both numbers appear below so you can log whichever one is in front of you.
| Nutrient | Per 100 g | Per 1 oz bag (28 g) | % Daily Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calories | 438 | 123 | — |
| Total fat | 11.19 g | 3.1 g | 4% |
| Saturated fat | 1.58 g | 0.4 g | 2% |
| Carbohydrate | 74.18 g | 20.8 g | 8% |
| Dietary fiber | 4.9 g | 1.4 g | 5% |
| Total sugars | 0.79 g | 0.2 g | — |
| Protein | 10.19 g | 2.9 g | 6% |
| Sodium | 586 mg | 164 mg | 7% |
% Daily Value is based on a 2,000-calorie diet.
Verified nutrition data
Numbers on this page come from USDA FoodData Central, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s food composition database, and from manufacturer labels where a branded product is named. Last verified September 2026. How we verify our data →
Two rows you would expect on a Nutrition Facts panel are missing here: added sugars and trans fat. USDA does not publish either value for its survey codes, so they are left out rather than guessed. Cholesterol is zero, as it is in any corn-and-oil snack, and a 1 oz bag brings 71 mg of potassium, about 2% of the Daily Value, from 252 mg per 100 g.
US servings from a mini bag to two ounces
| Serving | Weight | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| 1 mini bag, 0.5 oz | 14 g | 61 kcal |
| 1 snack pack, 0.625 oz | 17.7 g | 78 kcal |
| 1 oz bag, about 21 crisps | 28 g | 123 kcal |
| 2 oz, about 42 crisps | 57 g | 250 kcal |
| Per 100 g | 100 g | 438 kcal |
There is a wrinkle worth knowing. The FNDDS record for popcorn chips carries no household portion row of its own, so every gram weight above comes from the PopCorners bags themselves and from multiples of them: this is our own arithmetic on the USDA 100 g figure, not a USDA serving. The 1 oz bag and the 0.625 oz snack pack are printed sizes you can buy; the 2 oz line is there because a big single-serve bag is what most people actually finish in front of a screen.
The gap between the smallest and largest of those is the whole story of this snack. A mini bag at 61 calories is a rounding error in a day. Two ounces is 250, an eighth of a 2,000-calorie day, and it takes about the same three minutes to eat.
PopCorners flavors compared
| Version | Per 100 g | Typical serving | Calories |
|---|---|---|---|
| PopCorners Sea Salt | 429 | 1 oz, 21 crisps (28 g) | 120 kcal |
| PopCorners White Cheddar | 500 | 1 oz, 16 chips (28 g) | 140 kcal |
| PopCorners Sweet & Salty Kettle Corn | 464 | 1 oz, 18 crisps (28 g) | 130 kcal |
| PopCorners Sweet Chili | 464 | 1 oz, 18 crisps (28 g) | 130 kcal |
| Popcorn chips, sweet flavors, USDA generic | 455 | 1 oz (28 g) | 127 kcal |
| Air-popped popcorn, no butter | 385 | 1 oz (28 g) | 108 kcal |
Sea Salt is the floor of the range and White Cheddar the ceiling, and the distance between them is 71 calories per 100 g, or 20 per bag. Spicy Queso lands with the other seasoned flavors at 464 per 100 g and 130 per 1 oz bag, counted out as 17 crisps. The seasoning also changes how many crisps you get: 21 for Sea Salt, 18 for the kettle corn and sweet chili bags, 16 for White Cheddar. Same ounce, fewer pieces, more calories per piece.
USDA's generic sweet-flavored popcorn chip code sits at 455 per 100 g, between the two brand extremes, and it is the row that shows where the extra energy comes from. Sugar goes from 0.79 g per 100 g in plain to 11.59 g in the sweet-flavored version, and fat from 11.19 g to 13.51 g. Sodium moves the other way, 586 mg down to 243 mg, because sweet coatings displace salt.
Air-popped popcorn is in the table as a reference point, not a flavor. At 385 calories per 100 g it is the lightest corn snack in this whole comparison, and an ounce of it is 108 calories, our scaling of the USDA 100 g figure.
Sodium is the row to watch
Calories are not where a bag of PopCorners surprises anyone. Sodium is. A 1 oz bag delivers 164 mg, 7% of the FDA Daily Value of 2,300 mg, and that is the plain version. The 586 mg in 100 g is about a quarter teaspoon of table salt. The Sweet Chili label works out to 714 mg per 100 g, which puts a 1 oz bag near 200 mg, close to a tenth of the day's limit for a snack you finish standing up.
Fiber is the mirror image. Corn is a whole grain, and MyPlate counts popcorn among them, but popping and pressing the kernels into crisps cuts what survives. Plain popcorn chips carry 4.9 g of fiber per 100 g against 14.4 g in air-popped popcorn from the same grain. Per bag that is 1.4 g, 5% of the 28 g Daily Value, while the sodium has already spent 7%. If you are picking a snack for fiber, the bowl of air-popped kernels wins and it is not close.
Protein is the pleasant part: 10.19 g per 100 g, 2.9 g in a bag, 6% of the Daily Value. That is high for a corn snack. Plain corn chips manage 6.12 g per 100 g, so popped crisps deliver about two thirds more protein per gram than the fried kind.
How do PopCorners compare
| Snack | Per 100 g | US serving | Calories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Popcorn chips, plain | 438 kcal | 1 oz bag, 28 g | 123 kcal |
| Popcorn chips, sweet flavors | 455 kcal | 1 oz, 28 g | 127 kcal |
| Popcorn, ready-to-eat, plain | 482 kcal | 1 small bag, 28 g | 135 kcal |
| Corn chips, plain | 535 kcal | 1 oz, 28 g | 150 kcal |
Our take: popped beats fried, and the margin is fat, not calories. An ounce of popcorn chips is 123 calories with 3.1 g of fat; an ounce of plain corn chips is 150 with 9.3 g, exactly three times as much. Bagged ready-to-eat popcorn lands in between at 135 an ounce because the oil goes on after popping. So if you are choosing at the register and watching calories, the popped crisp is the lightest of these four per ounce and per 100 g. If you are choosing for fullness, none of them is the answer, because all four give you between 1.1 g and 3.2 g of fiber an ounce and a bag disappears fast.
Most popular popcorners brands in the United States
Ranked by how widely each product appears among foods sold in the United States, from the BodyPal food database of over 3.3 million products. Calories are the figures printed on each Nutrition Facts label, checked against USDA FoodData Central.
| Product | Calories (per 100 g) |
|---|---|
| PopCorners Sea Salt | 429 cal |
| PopCorners White Cheddar | 500 cal |
| PopCorners Sweet & Salty Kettle Corn | 464 cal |
| PopCorners Sweet Chili | 464 cal |
| PopCorners Spicy Queso | 464 cal |
| PopCorners Popped-Corn Snack 6-count | 429 cal |
Brand popularity: BodyPal food database. Nutrition: manufacturer labels / USDA FoodData Central.
PopCorners FAQs
How many calories are in PopCorners?
123 calories for a 1 oz bag, about 21 crisps, using the USDA record for plain popcorn chips at 438 calories per 100 g. The Sea Salt label rounds that to 120 for the same 28 g. Flavored bags run higher, from 130 for Kettle Corn to 140 for White Cheddar.
How many calories in a bag of PopCorners?
A 1 oz bag is 123 calories, the 0.625 oz snack pack in variety boxes is 78, and the 0.5 oz mini bag is 61. A 2 oz bag works out to 250 calories, which is our own arithmetic from the USDA 100 g figure rather than a USDA serving.
How many PopCorners are in one serving?
About 21 crisps make the 1 oz (28 g) serving of Sea Salt, at 123 calories by USDA and 120 on the label. The count varies by flavor: White Cheddar lists 16 chips per ounce, Kettle Corn and Sweet Chili 18, Spicy Queso 17.
How many calories in PopCorners White Cheddar?
140 calories per 1 oz bag, or 500 per 100 g, which makes it the highest of the flavors in USDA's branded database. That is 20 more than Sea Salt at 120 for the same 28 g, and 10 more than Kettle Corn, Sweet Chili and Spicy Queso at 130.
How many calories in PopCorners Kettle Corn?
130 calories in a 1 oz bag of Sweet and Salty Kettle Corn, about 18 crisps, or 464 per 100 g. USDA's generic row for sweet-flavored popcorn chips is close at 455 per 100 g and 127 per ounce, with 11.59 g of sugar per 100 g against 0.79 g in plain.
How much protein is in PopCorners?
2.9 g per 1 oz bag, which is 6% of the Daily Value, from 10.19 g per 100 g. That is high for a corn snack, since plain corn chips carry 6.12 g per 100 g, but a bag is still mostly carbohydrate, at 20.8 g against 2.9 g of protein.
How much sodium is in PopCorners?
164 mg in a 1 oz bag, 7% of the 2,300 mg Daily Value, from 586 mg per 100 g. Flavored bags go higher: the Sweet Chili label works out to 714 mg per 100 g, so a 1 oz bag lands near 200 mg, close to a tenth of the day's limit.
Are PopCorners good for weight loss?
A 1 oz bag at 123 calories is easy to fit into a day, and its 3.1 g of fat is a third of the 9.3 g in the same ounce of fried corn chips. The catch is fiber: 1.4 g per bag, 5% of the Daily Value, against 4.0 g in an ounce of air-popped popcorn.
Similar foods
- Churro — 189 cal each
- Fudge — 70 cal per piece
- Popcorn — 73 cal per cup popped
- Funnel cake — 318 cal per cake, 6-inch
- Onion Rings — 282 cal for 8 rings
- Kettle corn — 74 cal per cup
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