McDonald's Salad Has More Fat Than Cheeseburger

[Mr.X]

McDonald's Salad Has More Fat Than Cheeseburger
Tue Mar 9,11:02 AM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo!



LONDON (Reuters) - Global hamburger giant McDonald's latest line in healthy looking salads may contain more fat than its hamburgers, according to the company's Web Site.


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McDonald's, plagued by health critics and flattening sales, has launched the biggest change to its menu in 30 years with its plans to get into the multi-million pound prepared salad market.


"You can choose your salad, topping and dressing. You can mix and match to suit your diet and lifestyle," said a McDonald's spokeswoman.


However, consumers hoping to lose weight by switching from burgers to salads may be disappointed, according to the Interactive Nutrition Counter on the McDonald's Web site.


For example, on the new menu to be launched at the end of this month, a "Caesar salad with Chicken Premiere" contains 18.4 grams of fat compared with 11.5 grams of fat in a standard cheeseburger.


The British Nutrition Foundation (BNF) told Reuters it welcomed the salad menu but warned that salad dressings bought in fast-food outlets or supermarkets could be very high in fat and calories.


BNF said the recommended daily fat intake for men is 95 grams per day and for women 70 grams per day.


McDonald's has 1,235 restaurants in the UK and serves three million customers per day.

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but low carbs soo..

Lol, I worked with a guy that was on a salad "diet". He went to the grocery store over lunch and came back with an enormous portion loaded with all kinds of cheese and 1000 island dressing. But hey, it was a salad right???

[Pammie]

Now I've heard they were going to discontinue super size by the end of this year.

[Ironmako]

This article is BS.

So they are saying the Fried Chicken Caesar Salad has more fat than one McDonald's cheese burger.

Who eats Fried Chicken to lose weight????

BTW the cheeseburger value meal comes equipped with 2 cheeseburgers an order of frys and a coke.

If you have ever seen a McDonalds cheeseburger it looks more like a biscuit than a sandwich and if somebody only eats a single cheeseburger biscuit at McDonalds then I hardly think that obesity will be a problem for them.

This makes a good headline but the main assumption the writer makes is that the readers are brain dead.

I know a guy who makes up several pounds of salad twice a week, puts it in tupperware, and that's all he eats...ever! He even takes it with him on trips. But the thing is, he has concocted a very precise formula for his salad that includes everything his body needs, with precisely the right number of calories, macro-nutrient ratios, etc etc.

Durn...that sounds like a good idea. Why couldn't McDonald's do THAT???

[Big4ever]

Originally posted by Pamela
Now I've heard they were going to discontinue super size by the end of this year.

YUp but i never super size anyways when i go..