If you eat one Peeps chick from your Easter basket, you consume about 28 calories.
That small number reflects the candy’s simple construction: a Peeps chick is mostly sugar, corn syrup, gelatin, and air whipped into a soft marshmallow. A typical serving lists roughly 110 calories for four chicks, which works out to about 27.5 calories each and rounds to 28.
Peeps began as marshmallow chicks made by the R. E. Rodda Candy Company in Pennsylvania. Just Born acquired Rodda in 1953, and Bob Born introduced a faster method of mass-producing the chicks in 1954. The original yellow chick remains the brand’s signature shape, although the line now includes bunnies, seasonal shapes, colors, and flavors.
The exact figure can vary slightly with package size, flavor, or rounding on the nutrition label. For the classic chick used in this trivia question, however, 28 calories is the standard answer.