Eating healthy at Chinese or Mexican restaurants requires understanding nutritional values and sodium content. Compare the best and worst chain restaurant meals to find vegetarian options or low-calorie swaps that fit your diet.
Panera Bread offers a full menu of bakery and café items, including sandwiches, salads, soups, bagels, pastries and breads. Panera also provides a wide variety of drinks and beverages, with one popular choice being the Low Fat Strawberry Smoothie with Ginseng.
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Taco Bell sells three varieties of beef chalupas, each with different ingredients and different nutritional content. When you're browsing the chalupa offerings, you can make healthier choices when armed with calorie data.
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Broccoli cheddar is one of the standard rotation of soups served at Panera Bread. Compared with Panera's low-fat options, broccoli cheddar soup contains more calories.
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The McVeggie Sandwich has been added to the menu at limited national and international branches of McDonalds restaurants. Where available, the sandwich contains a soy-based veggie patty, a whole-wheat bun, barbecue sauce, lettuce and tomato. The McVeggie sandwich is also cholesterol free.
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Founded in 1964, Tim Hortons has become a Canadian institution, serving coffee and donuts at over 3000 locations across North America. The Tim Hortons Double Double, a coffee served with two creams and two sugars, has become one of the chain’s trademarks.
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The first Bonefish Restaurant opened in January 2000 in St. Petersburg, Florida. The goal was to offer a dining experience that takes the mystery and uncertainty out of eating fish.
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Salads are not always the healthiest option on a menu and the fiesta salad at Taco Bell is no exception. Knowing the nutritional information at Taco Bell will allow you to make an informed and healthy decision when you order food.
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Lipton Noodle Soup is a dehydrated, chicken-flavored soup mix. You add hot water to the mix to rehydrate the noodles and create a broth. Lipton Noodle Soup is convenient, but consider its nutritional information before making it a regular part of your diet.
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Dunkin Donuts is known for their donuts and coffee-based beverages. While they are not necessarily the healthiest restaurant around, some items on their menu are more diet-friendly than others. Surprisingly, the Vanilla Chai has more calories than a glazed donut.
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McDonald’s is an internationally known fast food restaurant, famous for its burgers, french fries and iconic Golden Arches. Starting out as one location in San Bernardino, Calif., in 1955, McDonald’s has grown into a global food empire with more than 31,000 locations worldwide.
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The Subway Meatball Marinara Sub is a customer favorite, especially because it is one of the few hot subs on the $5 Footlong menu. The main components are the Italian-style meatballs that simmer in a marinara sauce. This article focuses on the 6-inch version of the sandwich.
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Many people looking to go low-carb may be looking towards Subway’s line of wrap sandwiches rather than the traditional bread option. Subway wraps contain the traditional sandwich ingredients, wrapped inside a tortilla.
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Fast food costs relatively little and tastes good, but the negative effects on physical health last much longer than these immediate concerns. With the high-calorie meals come more fat, cholesterol, salt and sugar -- and therefore fewer vitamins, minerals and other nutrients -- than in healthier foods.
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The Vanilla Bean Creme Frappuccino is different from most Starbucks' beverages in that it doesn't contain coffee. The Starbucks' Frappuccino beverage category is generally described as an iced coffee drink. But the vanilla bean blend contains only milk, vanilla bean and ice.
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If people could eat just one donut, perhaps they wouldn’t be the symbol of caloric overindulgence that they are today. However, that can be hard to do, and donuts are ubiquitous at meetings, socials and other gatherings.
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Applebee’s is a large restaurant franchise with locations in the U.S. and around the world. They offer casual American dining for lunch and dinner. Their extensive menu includes appetizers, salads, steaks, chicken, seafood, burgers, pasta, sandwiches and desserts.
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As people spend more time working and less time cooking, fast food has become an increasingly frequent option. Many people eat all three meals away from home every day, often at fast-food establishments.
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Eating soup before a meal may reduce the number of calories you consume at that meal by up to 20 percent, according to study results published in a 2007 issue of “Appetite.
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A McDonald’s Sausage McMuffin with Egg breakfast sandwich is relatively high in calories. The sandwich consists of a sausage patty, fried egg and American cheese served on an English muffin. The egg is prepared with liquid margarine. A Sausage McMuffin with Egg is relatively high in fat, sodium and cholesterol.
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If you enjoy the flavors of the sea but aren't fond of cooking your own lobsters, you might decide to treat your family to Red Lobster. Since the chain's first location opened in 1968, Red Lobster has been known for not only its lobsters, but also its crab, shrimp and other forms of seafood.
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