This is the unhealthiest item at the snack bar
Admittedly, the chances are fairly slim that you’re concerned with making healthy choices when you eat at a snack bar — otherwise you’d get a salad somewhere. Still, there’s actually a huge difference between the various types of snacks at the snack bar when it comes to calories and the amount of fat.
To be honest, I wasn’t really all that aware of this: of course I’ve also read that a croquette roll is healthier than a cheese roll (if you look at calories), but in my mind all deep-fried snacks are equally healthy. Or rather, equally unhealthy, I should say.
So I was a little mistaken there… De Gelderlander investigated which snacks you’re better off ordering, and which ones you should avoid, if you still want to make somewhat healthy choices at the snack bar.
This item is by far the unhealthiest
And that dubious honor goes to… the mexicano. And it’s truly in a league of its own there, in first place. Because not only does one mexicano contain 390 calories (that did surprise me for a moment), it also contains 7.3 grams of salt (the daily recommended amount is 6 grams of salt). Holy shit, that’s really not great. ‘Luckily,’ I never order one anyway, but if I ever feel the need to, I’ll think about it a little longer now that I know this. I’ve put ‘luckily’ in quotation marks because if this is your favorite snack, you should of course keep ordering it if you want to.
But if this information has seriously put you off and you’d really like to go on a healthy snack-bar tour: order chicken satay. It isn’t deep-fried, so it’s already a lot healthier and lower in calories. There is one catch, though: you have to order it without satay sauce. Is a satay skewer still tasty without it? I wonder.
Order your snack with this sauce
I really love sauces, so ideally my snacks are practically drowning in them — especially satay sauce. Very convenient, then, that it’s actually incredibly unhealthy. So if you want to apply this healthy way of snacking to your sauces, order ketchup. It contains no fat and is also relatively low in calories. For comparison: a tablespoon of mayonnaise contains about 130 calories, while a tablespoon of ketchup contains 13. That’s quite a difference.
But, um, does this mean we should all start eating chicken satay with ketchup now? I certainly hope not, because that sounds extremely unpleasant.
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- 15 special snacks you can order at the snack bar
Source: De Gelderlander
