Healthy Restaurant Eating: Chain Menu Nutrition Tips

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.

Fried Plantain Nutrition

Published Jul,08 2011 | By Kara McEvoy

The plantain is a variety of banana popular in Latin American cuisine. Plantains are much larger than regular bananas and have firm, mild-flavored flesh. Plantains are often prepared like potatoes, however the most popular way to enjoy plantains is fried. A serving of fried plantains is 1 cup, which has 365 calories.