20 Worst Restaurant Foods in America Named by Authors |
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Authors David Zinczenko and Matt Goulding have revealed their “Worst Restaurant Foods in America,” as featured in their new book, Eat This, Not That! Restaurant Survival Guide. The list ranks the nation’s worst nutritional offenders at major fast food and restaurant chains across the country, while offering healthier alternatives at each establishment.
Eat This, Not That! Restaurant Survival Guide is the sixth installment in the popular book series, which currently has five million copies in print. The authors spent months analyzing menus, nutrition labels, and ingredients lists at the most popular chain and fast food restaurants in order to identify the “Worst Restaurant Foods in America.”
Zinczenko and Goulding start by evaluating calorie counts, but also take into consideration a cluster of other nutritional markers: fat, saturated fat, sodium levels and added sugar. As the authors release more “Worst Foods” lists, caloric offenders have been dropped from menus. Among them: Chili’s Awesome Blossom (2,710 calories) and Baskin-Robbins’ Heath Bar Shake (2,310 calories).
Topping the 2009 Restaurant list is the Outback Steakhouse Chocolate Thunder Down Under, which contains more calories than 44 McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets and an astounding four and a half days’ worth of saturated fat.
Among the list of the Top 20 Worst Restaurant Foods of 2009:
• Worst Sit-Down Kids’ Meal: Cheesecake Factory’s Kids’ Pasta with Alfredo Sauce (1,803 calories, 86 g saturated fat)
• Worst Sit-Down Burger: Applebee’s Quesadilla Burger (1,820 calories, 46 g fat)
• Worst Wrap: T.G.I. Friday’s BBQ Chicken Wrap (1,720 calories)
• Worst Pizza: Sbarro’s Stuffed Pepperoni (1 slice, 960 calories, 42 g fat)
• Worst Omelet: IHOP’s Colorado Omelet (1,890 calories, 47 g saturated fat)
To see the full list of 20 foods by category with nutritional information for each item, visit: The 20 Worst Restaurant Foods in America (Men’s Health Magazine)
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