Fast Food - Shocking Facts About Eating Out
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Fast Food - Shocking Facts
With our busy lives, we all love the convenience of fast food or our chain restaurants. However, it might shock you to realize the calories, fats and sodium in some of our favorite choices. American people are being duped. We need to become more aware of what we are putting into our mouths.
I found a great site that is nonprofit that will help many of us to learn how to eat in a more healthy manner:
I have no affiliation with this site in any manner. The chart below is only a small sampling of some of the foods that we tend to select and only meant to open our eyes. Happy eating!
(I put this in a nice table; however, hubpages did not convert as a table - anyone have any suggestions on how to do this???)
Calories g fat
g fat
Burger King
Whopper Jr. (without mayo)
370 calories
25 g fat (9 g saturated)
570 mg sodium
Chili's
Smokehouse Bacon Triple Cheese Big Mouth Burger with Jalapeno Ranch Dressing
1,870 calories
137 g fat (47 g saturated)
Guiltless Black Bean Burger
609 calories
11 g fat (1.5 g saturated)
1,791 mg sodium
Southern Smokehouse Bacon Big Mouth Burger
1,610 calories
107 g fat (36 g saturated)
4,150 mg sodium
Oldtimer
780 calories
42 g fat (12 g saturated)
1,260 mg sodium
Dairy Queen
1/2 lb. FlameThrower GrillBurger
1,140 calories
82 g fat (27 g saturated, 1.5 g trans)
1,940 mg sodium
400 calories
18 g fat (9 g saturated, 0.5 g trans)
920 mg sodium
Denny's
Double Cheeseburger
1,540 calories
116 g fat (52 g saturated, 7 g trans)
3,880 mg sodium
Meat Lovers Scramble
1,130 calories
66 g fat (29 g saturated, 0.5 g trans)
3,180 mg sodium
Veggie Cheese Omelette
500 calories
37 g fat (12 g saturated)
940 mg sodium
DQ
Original Burger
350 calories
14 g fat (7 g saturated)
680 mg sodium
Hardee's
Two-Third Pound Monster Thickburger
1,420 calories
108 g fat (43 g saturated)
2,770 mg sodium
Boca Burger
500 calories
15 g fat (4 g saturated)
1,320 mg sodium
McDonald's
Quarter Pounder
410 calories
19 g fat (7 g saturated)
730 mg sodium
In-N-Out Protein-Style Cheeseburger
330 calories
25 g fat (9 g saturated)
730 mg sodium
Red Robin
A.1. Peppercorn Burger
1,440 calories
97 g fat
5,784 mg sodium
Garden Burger
517 calories
18 g fat
1,748 mg sodium
1/3-lb Low-Carb Thickburger
420 calories
32 g fat (12 g saturated)
1,010 mg sodium
Romano’s Macaroni
Grill Spaghetti and Meatballs with Meat Sauce Dinner
1,810 calories
118 g fat (54 g saturated)
4,900 mg sodium
Tomato Basil Soup with Cheese Tortellini
260 calories
5 g fat (1.5 g saturated)
1,040 mg sodium
Ruby Tuesday
Colossal Burger
2,014 calories
141 g fat
Top Sirloin Steak
336 calories
16 g fat
T.G.I. Friday's
Cheesy Bacon Cheeseburger
1,590 calories
Ahi Tuna Ciabatta Burger
800 calories
Wendy's
Quarter-Pound Single
430 calories
20 g fat (7 g saturated)
870 mg sodium
All
Chips and salsa
500 calories
25 g fat (4 g saturated)
230 mg sodium
Now for the good news
Starbucks
Skim Latte (Grande)
130 calories
19 grams carbohydrates
13 grams of protein
Dunkin' Donuts
Egg White and Cheese Wake-Up Wrap
150 calories
13 grams carbohydrates
8 grams protein
Taco Bell
Fresco Crunchy Taco
150 calories
13 carbohydrates
7 grams of protein
Burger King
1% Chocolate Low-Fat Milk
190 calories
31 grams carbohydrates
9 grams protein
Wendy's
Small Chili
220 calories
22 grams carbohydrates
18 grams of protein
Subway
Black Forest Ham, Egg and Cheese English Muffin
180 calories
18 grams of carbohydrates
15 grams of protein
KFC
Red Beans With Sausage and Rice
160 calories
26 grams of carbohydrates
24 grams of protein
Macaroni and cheese
180 Calories
20 grams carbohydrates
6 grams protein
2 grilled chicken drumsticks
160 calories
0 carbohydrates
20 grams of protein
McDonald's
4 piece Chicken McNuggets
190 calories
11 grams carbohydrates
10 grams protein
Carvel
Low-Fat Vanilla Flying Saucer
190 calories
35 grams of carbohydrates
4 grams of protein
To learn more about eating healthy when you are out and about, you may want to read the following hub articles:
Nutrition in convenience stores – for when you want healthy, low calorie fast food on the go
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Thank you for taking the time to post an answer. I posted your comment as someone else may be having the same problem and will be able to also utilize your advice. I will give this a try. Much appreciative of your time!
Still no luck. Any ideas???
I tried but it doesn't work in this comment box. I put an example of what I mean here:
http://hubpages.com/hub/Seven-Biggest-Scientific-T
It's an unpublished hub.
How do I gain access to the information. I clicked on the link and it's a dead end. I copied and pasted and the same. Thank you again for your time.
That's weird, it works for me. I put it in a gif and inserted it at the bottom of a published hub. It's below the comments box.
If I have to eat out I try and stick to the value menu. The items there are usually much smalle in proportion than everything else. By eating only one or two of these items I do not feel stuffed like I would have if I had ate a whole value meal.
Holy crap, if I ate one burger that most of my calorie intake for the day!
Thanks for the eye opener.
wandererh Level 2 Commenter 3 years ago
You can do a screen capture of the table/s from your computer and paste it here as a graphic, but that's not good for SEO. What you can try is shift-enter, it gives you a little more option in your formatting. :)