By Valerie Tort

Watching movies in your favorite theatres is considered more enjoyable than viewing a pile of the latest DVD series of your much-awaited shows and anthologies in your pad.

Alas! It is movie theatre popcorn—the missing ingredient for the ultimate satisfaction of movie viewing at home. You miss the crunch and the buttery taste it fills your mouth in every crunch. Due to the large market for fast, convenient, and instant meals and snacks, anyone can enjoy movie theatre popcorn in minutes.

Microwavable popcorn is the mess-free and fastest way to cook your popcorn and savor the taste you have been longing for while watching the television at home.

Tsibog.com raided the supermarkets and grabbed several bags of microwave popcorn to taste and distinguish their differences.

Jolly Time 94% Fat-Free Microwave Popcorn tops our list in terms of the healthy snack alternatives available in the market. Jolly Time 94% Fat-Free Microwave Popcorn brings out the salty and buttery taste sans the high levels of trans fat and saturated fat per serving.

It contains nil trans fat per serving so people of any ages can munch this crunchy snack guilt-free. Even health-conscious individuals can enjoy this treat since it contains more than five grams of fiber in every bag. Jolly Time 94% Fat-Free Microwave Popcorn is a diet-friendly alternative for fat laden and super salty snacks.

Servings are also packed individually to control your servings. A bag fills up to eight cups of cooked popcorn—enough for you to share with your buddies over a bottle of diet soda. The cooking time for Jolly Time 94% Fat-Free Microwave Popcorn is approximately three minutes, depending on the wattage of your microwave.

If you are searching for a movie theatre popcorn to satisfy your cravings that is healthy and without sacrificing the taste, go and grab Jolly Time 94% Fat-Free Microwave Popcorn.

Jolly Time also offers different varieties for microwave popcorn. If you prefer sweet popcorn with a twist, why not try Jolly Time Healthy Pop Caramel Apple Popcorn. It is also 94% fat-free. It has a light caramel taste sweetened with artificial sweeteners to reduce the calorie count and sugar intake per serving.

Another alternative for those who have sweet tooth is the Mallow Magic Microwave Popcorn. For people who crave for the mix of melting butter and cheese in a bag of popcorn, try Jolly Time Big Cheeze Ultimate Cheddar Cheese Popcorn to suit your appetite. If you long for the real butter, then Jolly Time has their variety for you: Blast-O-Butter Popcorn.

Act II Microwave Popcorn is another brand of microwave popcorn in the market. It offers the convenience in its individually wrapped bags just like Jolly Time 94% Fat-Free Microwave Popcorn but much faster to cook. It takes only two to two and a half minutes for the kernels to complete its popping with the microwave temperature set in the highest level.

Compared to Jolly Time 94% Fat-Free Microwave Popcorn, it has fewer unpopped kernels; therefore you enjoy more bites of popcorn.

Act II Microwave Popcorn comes in varieties to feed your discriminating taste: Act II Butter Lover, Act II Light Butter, and Act II Xtreme Butter Popcorn. Act II also caters for special dietary needs of the consumer, so they have the variety with less sodium, less fat, and less sugar.

Still aching for more popcorn choices? Orville Redenbacher’s will give you an alternative to the two leading microwave popcorn brands. Orville Redenbacher’s Natural Light gives out the same flavor of the full fat version of the popcorn with half the amount of fat in every serving. Orville Redenbacher’s Natural Light has a hint of salt, making it friendly for low-sodium dieters.

Orville Redenbacher’s buttery variants such as the Movie Theatre Butter and the Ultimate Butter will surely tickle your taste buds with its combination of salty and loads of butter flavor and real butter coating every popped kernel.

This craze will continue to attract buyers and bring in more varieties to their products as it brings out the real movie theatre popcorn at our own convenience we’ve always longed for. No wonder if the microwavable popcorn will become the phenomenal staple food in mom’s kitchen.

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