Here Are The 9 Most Surprising Reasons To Not Eat Salads At Restaurants

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True, leafy greens and other vegetables contain lower amounts of calories. However, your simple healthy salads can be stuffed with all types of ingredients making them full of calories, sugar as well as saturated fat. Restaurants usually rely on oil for dressing their salads; you can also find the following items:

• Ranch: 2 tablespoons of ranch can contain around 15 grams of fat as well as 150 calories.

• Bleu cheese: it has nearly the same amount of calories as ranch but contains more quantity of fat, making it a very dangerous ingredient.

• Thousand islands: (2tablesspoons) this one actually contains less than the previous 2 with 118 calories and 11 grams of fat.

• Caesar: Caesar dressing may be the worst offender of all. The classic Caesar salad topper could contain more than 150 calories and 17 grams of fat in two tablespoons.

• Caesar: Caesar is the most dangerous topping with 150 calories and 17 gram of fat.

• Fat-free salad dressing: they may seem like healthy ingredients, however, they are full of sugar, additives, and preservatives.

Your body actually requires healthy fats in order to benefit from the nutrients in your healthy meal. However, restaurants don’t care enough to control the portion of ingredients added to your salad.

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Restaurants tend to add unhealthy toppers to their salads making them useless for people who opt for the soup and salad menu as healthy foods. Let’s have a look at some of the things that ruin your healthy meal:

• Crispy stuff: when you are at a place that mentions the word crispy, immediately translate it in your mind as battered and fried. So if you had the option for crispy toppings such as shrimp, onions, or chicken, please just say no.

• Cheese: restaurants love cheese very much that they make it rain over heir salads. Cheese is yummy, we know, but you need to know that you will be adding a pile of calories and saturated fat to your meal.

• Bacon: the WHO has been always stressing on the danger that processed meats like bacon bits may cause to your body; especially cancer threat. Even if it’s fake bacon, they are made from God knows what!! So be careful.

• Starchy vegetables: vegetables like corn and peas may make your salad worse. This is how it goes: while these veggies are harmless in low quantities, large quantities will increase the carbs count and make you have a bigger glycemic reaction to your salad. This may cause future blood sugar swings and cravings.