Tonight, millions of kids will be sorting through their booty from gallivanting about on Allhallows Eve.

There’ll be fun-size Snickers, Milky Ways and 3 Musketeers. There’ll be Smarties, Junior Mints, Dots and dozens more brands of candy. There might even be a toothbrush from the neighborhood dentist.

Which candies are higher in calories than the others? It’s not like there’s any truly healthy candy, but having gone through more than 100 varieties of candy, inspecting their size and calories, we’ve broken down each brand and sorted them by their potency.

Aside from Tic Tacs, which claim to have 2 calories for each single-gram pellet, all of the brands fall in a range of 3 to 5.5 calories per gram.

So if you’re lucky enough to get a full-size Nestle Crunch bar, which is 38 grams and has 190 calories, that makes 5 calories for each gram.

There are a lot of 5-calorie-to-gram-ratio candy choices, including:

• Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup

• Kit Kat

• Take 5

• Reese’s Pieces

• Nestle Milk Chocolate

Another popular ratio is 4 calories per gram, including:

• Gobstoppers

• Red Hots

• Runts

• Tootsie Fruit Rolls

• Bottle Caps

• Sweethearts

• Squirrel Nut Zippers

• Mary Jane

• Canada Mints

• Atomic Fireballs

Where’s the chocolate?

See what happened there? Dropping from 5 calories to 4 calories per gram, you lose something. That something is chocolate.

That’s because chocolate brings the calories. These brands are all more than 5 calories:

• Dove milk chocolate

• M&Ms

• Heath

• Mr. Goodbar

• Hershey’s Milk Chocolate With Almonds

• Whatchamacallit

Many more chocolate favorites are 4.5 to 5 calories, including:

• Twix

• Krackel

• Hershey’s Kiss

• Snickers

• Almond Joy or Mounds

• Butterfinger

• Milky Way

• Baby Ruth

3 Musketeers is the chocolate bar with the least calories-to-gram ratio, at 4.26 calories, although other candies that feature chocolate covering — such as York Peppermint Patties or Milk Duds — come in lower.

Tootsie Roll, which is sort of chocolaty, is lower still, coming in at 3.5 calories per gram.

Stay fruity

The least caloric options coming home with your children probably will be fruity in nature. With 3 calories per gram:

• Jujufruits

• Jujubes

• Life Savers

• Dots (at 3.25 calories per gram)

We thought maybe there were some candy options that would top the chocolate options. Things such as Fun Dip and Pixy Sticks, for instance — both of which are pretty much straight-up sugar. Nope. Fun Dip comes in at 3.57 and Pixy Sticks at 3.75.

How about Sugar Daddy? That has to be the topper. Nope. Only 4.25.

So although everything you and your kids might consume tonight deserves a good brushing, it’s the chocolate that delivers the biggest punch, to the gut.

— Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel