Now that it’s us Thanksgiving weekend, it’s the best time to start worrying about what we eat on a daily basis. Don’t get me wrong, we don’t judge what you eat in any way. It’s true, but we know that we can’t be the only ones who get carried away by all the gourmet meals and snacks that, in one way or another, taste even better at this time of year than any other. It’s not our fault, it’s biological (maybe). It’s a winter thing, you can’t help but eat one piece of cake after another.
Do not blame yourself. Blame nature!
Either way, our point is that the holiday season rarely ends and we’re not going to let this time of year go by without enjoying ham, tamales, and any other food that makes us feel smart and comfortable in those colder months. So, it’s probably a smart idea to cut calories as much as possible, and if you rely on fast food for most of your meals, it doesn’t seem easy.
Fortunately, there are some healthy dishes in the world of fast food that taste delicious and today we are listing 10 of the most popular and tastiest healthy foods in fast food. A quick note: Keep in mind that when we say “healthy,” we’re talking about fast food, so the sodium content of this food is probably too high to be considered “healthy. ” Think of this list as “healthy…for fast food. ”
We’ll be sure to list the calorie, fat, sodium, protein, and carbohydrate content of the food. Okay, enough talking, let’s get to it!
Calories: 290
Fat: grams
Sodium: 840 mg
Carbohydrates: 34 g
Protein: 19g
Look, every rating has to have a substance and I feel sorry for Starbucks enthusiasts, but this time it’s you. The spinach, feta, and egg white wrap isn’t very good.
What you get here are egg whites combined with spinach, feta, and cream cheese with sun-dried tomatoes in a total wheat wrapper. The main flavor note of spinach is earth, and that of the egg and feta cheese is too salty. These make up the two main notes of the tasting: earth and salt.
However, I will say this: this cream cheese with sun-dried tomatoes saves the whole dish. It’s stinky and shiny, and brings a hint of umami to this smooth wrap.
The:
As a mid-afternoon pick-me-up, this dish works. But if you need to enjoy your meal instead of just dining for fuel, look elsewhere.
Find your nearest Starbucks here.
Calories: 520
Fat: 18g
Sodium: 1,100 mg
Carbohydrates: g
Protein: 12g
What would a fast food list be without Taco Bell?It may not seem like it at first glance, but Taco Bell offers dishes that, while high in sodium and carbs, are healthy, such as the Black Bean Crunchwrap Supreme.
Eating this Crunchwrap is like eating dinner: the stats are so bad, but it still feels like you’re eating junk food, which, let’s face it, is a great feeling.
Instead of meat, here’s a combination of black beans, salty nacho cheese sauce, tomatoes, sour cream, and lettuce on toast wrapped in a giant flour tortilla. The black beans have great textural detail and an earthy flavor that, honestly, is better than most Taco Bell beef options, while the cheese sauce provides that indulgent salty quality that is Taco Bell’s trademark.
The Bottom Line:
The sodium and carb content is high, but it’s just as satisfying as a greasy burger or poultry sandwich with less than a portion of calories.
Find your nearest Taco Bell here.
Calories: 450 (dressing)
Fat: 25g 3g (Vinaigrette)
Sodium: 1230 mg (Fried Chicken) mg (Vaigreta)
Carbohydrates: 28 g
Protein: 32g
Wendy’s makes a very clever salad. This salad features a combination of sweet and tangy red apples (I’m guessing it’s Fuji) and tart green apples, walnuts, cranberries, crumbled blue cheese, and any Wendy’s poultry fillet of your selection. Add a highly spiced, homemade, grilled variety. bed of greens combined. We’ve indexed the calorie data for the highly spiced option because that’s all Wendy’s will tell us on their site, but it’s evident that we should probably opt for the grilled bird to cut calories, carbs, and sodium.
The grilled poultry is pretty good, it’s a little dry, but Wendy’s offers you a pomegranate French dressing to pour over your salad that fixes dryness and adds sweet and spicy notes to the dish, rounding out the combination of fruity, nutty, and savory notes. .
As is the case with fast-food salads, the weak link here is lettuce. It’s a fundamental blend of vegetables and romaine lettuce that only serves as texture. Unfortunately, there are no tasty arugula leaves or spinach.
The Bottom Line:
A delicious salad that, even with fried poultry, is still healthy compared to something like a cheeseburger or poultry sandwich.
Find your nearest Wendy’s here.
Calories: 490
Fat: 14g
Sodium: 900 mg
Carbohydrates: 14 g
Protein: 48g
The wonderful thing about El Pollo Loco is that the chain offers grilled poultry, so even a two-piece meal with the right sides is a healthy option. But instead of recommending bone-in poultry with corn and broccoli on the side, which sounds incredibly boring, we’re just going to recommend anything that’s healthy and delicious, the double ground chicken salad.
What you get here is a double dose of grilled white-meat poultry, tossed with buttery avocado slices, pumpkin seeds, creamy queso fresco, veggies, pico de gallo, and creamy cilantro dressing. The bird is delicious with a mix of charred flavors with some citrus. zest, while the pico de Gallo adds a whole new feel that pairs well with the tangy dressing.
If you want to take it to the next level, drizzle some avocado salsa all over the salad for a more intense heat.
The bottom line:
A delicious, meaty and flavorful salad. How many salads can you call “meaty”?
Find your nearest El Pollo locomotive here.
Calories: 190,380 (white rice)
Fat: 8g
Sodium: 840 mg
Carbohydrates: 34 g 87 g (white rice)
Protein: 19g 7g (White Rice)
Yes, it’s simple to enjoy dishes like orange chicken, crispy chili shrimp, and honey sesame chicken breast, but String Beach chicken provides less than a fraction of the calories of those sweet-breaded dishes and tastes just as good.
The bird is tender, juicy, and perfectly cooked and is tossed with a smooth ginger-soy sauce that is subtly sweet and floral. The mixture of green beans and onions provides a wonderful crunch with some sweet vegetal notes. This is a wonderful dish even without rice, but we’ll assume you need rice, so we recommend the white.
It’s not the healthiest option (super veggies are), but it’s particularly low in sodium than chow mein and fried rice.
The bottom line:
Panda Express’ healthiest dish doesn’t sacrifice big flavors for low calories. It’s a wonderful dish.
Find your nearest Panda Express here.
Calories: 680
Fat: 49g
Sodium: 1,220 mg
Carbohydrates: 27g
Protein: 33g
As much as I love Wendy’s Apple Pecan Salad, Chick-fil-A’s Spicy Southwest puts it to shame. This salad includes your choice of poultry on a bed of mixed vegetables with grape tomatoes, Monterey Jack and cheddar cheese, roasted corn, black beans, poblano chiles and red bell peppers.
At Chick-fil-A, you can get this sandwich with highly seasoned grilled tenderloin, grilled tenderloin, nuggets, poultry strips, or fried tenderloin (highly seasoned or regular), which is wonderful for customization, but honestly, I think which is a simple grilled tenderloin. It works with the rest of the construction.
Every bite here is a combination of fresh, sweet and spicy flavors with a slight spiciness in the background that slowly develops in the mouth. The poblano peppers are the apparent star of the show here, but so is the combination of black beans, tortilla, and corn that gives great texture to the salad.
The Bottom Line:
Probably the salad of every fast food.
Find your nearest Chick-fil-A here.
Calories: 390
Fat: 12g
Sodium: 770 mg
Carbohydrates: 44g
Protein: 28g
Most people I know who are die-hard Chick-fil-A enthusiasts don’t even know this sandwich exists, which is a shame because it’s so much better than you’d expect. It’s no secret that Chick-fil-A knows how to make chicken, and that skill extends to the chain’s roast bird.
The breast fillet is well marinated, juicy and tender, flavored with lemon and black pepper with a hint of toasted notes. The sandwich is based on green lettuce, juicy tomatoes that bring great umami character to the dish, and a toasted multigrain. A bun that brings a sophisticated sweetness to every bite. Overall, it’s a well-thought-out and crafted sandwich, and the bird is juicy enough that you don’t want sauce.
What chain of birds can claim the same?
The Bottom Line:
Some days, calorie relief be damned, the Chick-fil-A grilled sandwich is more effective than its fried counterpart.
Find your nearest Chick-fil-A here.
Calories: 640
Fat: 25g
Sodium: 970 mg
Carbohydrates: g
Protein: 27g
It’s sandwiches like Chicken Salad with Almonds and Rustic Sourdough (ridiculous name) that make me think, “Am I sleeping in Panera?”This sandwich is simply delicious, you watch what you eat or not.
The structure is a combination of sliced white poultry and diced celery, which provide a great spicy crunch, red grapes, toasted almonds, a sweet honey and vinegar sauce, tomatoes, emerald leaves and salt and pepper on a spongy texture. spicy, sourdough.
The veggies here are excellent, providing a tart base that pairs well with the sweet nutty tones of the almonds, the tangy quality of the celery, and the tart sweetness of the grapes. The sauce combines floral notes of honey and apple cider vinegar. creating a mild mustard flavor with some umami sumptuousness from the tomatoes.
If you’re willing to add an extra 90 calories and some healthy fats, you can beef up this sandwich with avocado, which gives a great circular, buttery character to the sandwich.
The Bottom Line:
A delicious sandwich that tastes like even once the avocado slices are added to it.
Find your nearest Panera here.
Calories: 690
Fat: 21g
Sodium: NA
Carbohydrates: g
Protein: 44g
We’ve done extensive testing beyond the pale to create the most productive Chipotle burrito bowl and filtered our effects for 3 other bowls: the “most productive tasting” bowl, the “most productive ketogenic tasting” bowl, and the decadent “everything OK”. bowl. Array ” bowl. We’re sticking with those bowls, but rather than recommend the keto bowl here, I’ll offer a fourth edition, a modified edition of our “more productive tasting” bowl.
Here’s the construction:
The end result deserves to be a flavorful salad with smoky, earthy, and highly spicy notes with a soft, sweet finish. The barbecue brings notes of clove and oregano herbs to the mix, which pair perfectly with cumin-rich pinto beans that absorb well into the rice bed. Overall, the dish is incredibly fragrant thanks to the extra fajitas and is so clever that you are impressed that it has less than 1000 calories.
If you’re cutting back even further, here’s another tweak: Eliminate the rice and you’ll get 480 calories, 17 grams of fat, 40 grams of protein, and 38 grams of carbs, leaving room to add guacamole. You can also substitute poultry for the barbecue, but we strongly recommend against it. The barbecue is what provides that rich herbal flavor; you need that element.
The bottom line:
Chipotle makes healthy eating easy while sacrificing flavor. This dish will leave you speechless.
Find your nearest Chipotle here.
Calories: 510
Fat: 14g
Sodium: 360 mg
Carbohydrates: g
Protein: 44g
Tasting notes and pansies:
Honestly, picking a number one for this list is a no-brainer, as I said in my original review of the dish: Flame Broiler’s Korean Spicy Chicken is the tastiest and healthiest dish in any fast food restaurant. By the way, it’s not only healthy for a quick meal, it’s a well-balanced, nutritious dish, period, and it tastes great.
Chicken is a fragrant bomb of chili spice, providing layers of sweetness and savory sensations. Because it’s thigh meat, it’s juicy and tender, and the thick, gochujang-inspired sauce transfers to your bed of veggies and rice, making sure each and every one of them. The bite is full of flavor.
We highly recommend adding some extra magic sauce (Teriyaki’s Flame Broiler edition) to your bowl. Yes, it will increase the sodium, calorie, and sugar content, but in this dish you can do without it and it will deepen the sweeter notes. and bring some umami qualities to the forefront.
The bottom line:
Without a doubt, the tastiest healthy dish of the moment in fast food. Essential whether you are looking to eat healthy or not.
Find your nearest flame grill here.