1. Cadbury Crème Eggs Love ’em or hate ’em, don’t be shocked that an egg with a hazard-orange-colored candy yolk tops the list of Easter offenders. So what’s really in that yolk? Lots of yummy yellow #6 and high-fructose corn syrup, for starters. Other questionable ingredients include the ever-mysterious, never-good-for-you “artificial flavor,” calcium chloride (a preservative that, while natural, is still a chemical), and dried egg whites, which we’re guessing don’t come from cage-free chickens. Yet never fear: The chocolate shell of this 150-calorie sugar bomb is still 100% dairy milk if you buy it in the US. Get your eggs in Great Britain where Cadbury started, and you’ll ingest a shell made from a cocoa mixture, thanks to a change implemented after Kraft bought the chocolatier in 2010.Clean Pick: Alter Eco Salted Caramel Truffles
  2. Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs We would never want to speak ill of the ambrosial combination of chocolate and peanut butter unless we thought we’d be doing a public service—but the only thing truly peanutty about these eggs is the word “peanuts” in the ingredients list. Otherwise, these eggs are nearly all sugar—there are 16 grams of the sweet stuff in one 170-calorie egg—along with soy lecithin and something called PGPR, or polyglycerol polyricinoleate, both of which are chemical emulsifiers that may make you fat(if eating a bag of Reese’s eggs didn’t already).Clean Pick: Unreal Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups MORE: 5 Ways To Strip Sugar From Dessert
  3. Peeps Like climate change or immigration reform, Peeps are one of the most polarizing topics of our time: You either enjoy stuffing your mouth with tasteless sugar or you don’t. But seriously, people, the top three ingredients in these are sugar, corn syrup, and gelatin (and if you’re vegetarian or vegan, that last one should alarm you). You’ll also be getting a daily dose of chemical colors—yellow #5 if you opt for the traditional canary-colored peeps—and carnauba wax, which is the main ingredient in car wax. Just five chicks will set you back 140 calories and 34 grams of sugar, but celiac peep-lovers, rejoice: Peeps are totally gluten-free.Clean Pick: If you really can’t live without neon candy shaped in the form of baby birds, make your own. It’s not that hard.
  4. Jelly Belly Jelly Beans Any candy that has more than 50 flavors like “Dr. Pepper” and Harry Potter’s “Booger” is probably harboring some extra scary additives: We found acidity regulators, glazing agents, and sodium diacetate in these beans, all of which are ingredients you don’t want to be ingesting on a regular basis. No matter the flavor, all Jelly Belly beans start with the same three ingredients: sugar, glucose syrup, and chemically-altered cornstarch. In addition, watch out for artificial colors galore—how else did you think they get that deep Willy Wonka blueberry or the odd-looking (and –tasting) buttered popcorn?Clean Pick: Surf Sweets Organic Jelly Beans
  5. Lindt Milk Chocolate Gold Bunny If we’re being honest, the ingredients in the Lindt solid chocolate bunny aren’t terrible, per se—the first three ingredients are sugar, cocoa butter, and milk. And for 220 calories (and 22 grams of sugar) per serving, this slightly more upscale chocolate bar probably won’t kill you right away. But take a look at the number of servings in a single bunny: Five. Yep, there are FIVE servings in a 7-ounce chocolate bunny. So actually, eating an entire bunny will wallop you with 1,100 calories and 110 grams of sugar—and that might kill you.Clean Pick: Theo Pure 85% Dark Chocolate bar MORE: Are Nestlé’s New Artificial-Free Candy Bars Actually Healthy Now?
  6. Peeps Easter Egg Nog Stop the presses: You can now drink Peeps-flavored eggnog at Easter. The chickadee –candy company has teamed up with dairy manufacturer Prairie Farms to start selling Peeps Marshmallow Milk, Peeps Chocolate Marshmallow Milk, and the aforementioned Easter Egg Nog, which boasts a whopping 380 calories and 40 grams of sugar in one cup. One cup! The first three ingredients are milk, cream, and sugar, but then things get weird, with additives like gelatin, various stabilizers like cellulose gum, guar gum, and carrageenan, as well as artificial flavors and colors.Clean Pick: A glass of grass-fed, organic milk. You don’t need to drink eggnog on Easter, folks.