| Many people consider a salad to be a healthy | | | | above lists corn syrup solids as its second |
| option, especially in difficult situations. When faced | | | | ingredient and soybean oil as the third. Other |
| with a fast food lunch or dinner at a restaurant, a | | | | questionable ingredients include corn starch, corn |
| well-chosen salad can save you from a myriad of | | | | vinegar, and unnamed animal and vegetable |
| unhealthy choices. However, there is one pitfall | | | | sourced "natural flavors". The creamy Caesar |
| that many salad lovers do not think about when | | | | dressing lists soybean oil second among the |
| they order a restaurant salad. The dressing. That's | | | | ingredients, fructose farther down the list, and |
| right, an unhealthy salad dressing can ruin even | | | | rounds out the ingredients with corn syrup and |
| the best salads turning them into a disaster of | | | | caramel color. Unfortunately, these ingredients are |
| hydrogenated fats and high calories. If you are | | | | typical for most commercially prepared salad |
| concerned about how salad dressings can ruin an | | | | dressings. |
| otherwise healthy food choice, then read on. | | | | So if you are a person who wants to be able to |
| First of all, most processed salad dressings are | | | | eat healthy salads at home or in restaurants, |
| extremely high in calories. For example, if you're | | | | what is there to do? First of all, start reading the |
| at McDonald's, the Southwest Salad with grilled | | | | ingredients on your bottles of salad dressing. Get |
| chicken may sound like a reasonably safe choice. | | | | rid of or do not purchase any that include corn |
| It contains 320 calories and 9 grams of fat, along | | | | starch, corn syrup, or soybean oil. Instead look |
| with 960 milligrams of sodium which is about 40% | | | | for dressings with olive oil and real spices. If you |
| of your recommended daily intake. However, if | | | | absolutely must purchase a dressing with these |
| you add just an ounce and a half the creamy | | | | ingredients try to use as little as possible on your |
| southwest dressing you will be adding on an extra | | | | salads. |
| 100 calories, 6 grams of fat, and 340 grams of | | | | For a healthy, easy, and much less expensive |
| sodium. Choosing to add creamy Caesar dressing | | | | alternative, learn to make your own salad |
| is even worse. 2 ounces of that will cost you 190 | | | | dressing. With a few basic ingredients this is simple |
| calories, 18 grams of fat (3.5 saturated), and 500 | | | | to do and a homemade salad dressing will keep |
| milligrams of sodium. This is typical of what you | | | | for several days in the refrigerator. A quick |
| find in most restaurants with most commercial | | | | search online will point the way towards a wide |
| salad dressings. | | | | variety of salad dressing recipes. If you choose to |
| In addition to packing a nutritional gut punch, most | | | | make your own dressings, you can easily bring a |
| commercial salad dressings contain things that are | | | | small container with you when you eat out and |
| not part of a whole foods diet. For example, the | | | | use that instead of the processed dressings that |
| creamy southwest dressing that was referenced | | | | would ruin your healthy choice. |