Article about Restaurants Nutritional Information

swimmermama

Thought people might be interested in this article about calorie and other nutritional information that is supplied by restaurants. Some good news (most were fairly accurate) and some bad (some were REALLY off).

I would be interested in people's thoughts!

Edit: Wow. I am out of it. It is here: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/07/20/138555722/restaurants-often-miss-the-mark-on-calorie-counts?sc=fb&cc=fp

funkyspunky871

Where's the article?

kmeekhof

might help if you added the article

smashleymcgee

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gtandrews

Hi I was on line yesterday looking up restaurant calories and was surprised by the number of calories in some of the salads and was wondering if the calories were accurate. I can't image that lettuce with a few toppings could be so high in calories.

ChRiStA_1983

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AmerTunsi

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/19/diet-sabotage-1-in-5-calo_n_903861.html
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1951798,00.html
http://news.yahoo.com/restaurants-calorie-counts-wrong-research-finds-204604334.html

There are some articles, the time.com one is about actual food labels..

jessilee119

Hi I was on line yesterday looking up restaurant calories and was surprised by the number of calories in some of the salads and was wondering if the calories were accurate. I can't image that lettuce with a few toppings could be so high in calories.

It's not the salad and toppings that are high in calories (unless if the toppings consist of something fried or tortilla chips which have a lot of sodium)...it's the dressing that makes them worse than the entrees you swore were loaded with calories. You figure Ranch is what...90 calories per serving...and you know there is more than one serving on the salad (probably 4 or more). Just when we thought we were doing good by getting a salad instead of steak...

jessilee119

Thought people might be interested in this article about calorie and other nutritional information that is supplied by restaurants. Some good news (most were fairly accurate) and some bad (some were REALLY off).

I would be interested in people's thoughts!

The same is true for foods we buy at the store. There's a list in one of the eat this not that books that explains how companies are not allowed to overestimate calories so they underestimate. Cheerios is about 3 calories more than the nutrition label states which isn't bad, but there were some foods that underestimated by 40+ calories.

jessilee119

Hi I was on line yesterday looking up restaurant calories and was surprised by the number of calories in some of the salads and was wondering if the calories were accurate. I can't image that lettuce with a few toppings could be so high in calories.

It's not the salad and toppings that are high in calories (unless if the toppings consist of something fried or tortilla chips which have a lot of sodium)...it's the dressing that makes them worse than the entrees you swore were loaded with calories. You figure Ranch is what...90 calories per serving...and you know there is more than one serving on the salad (probably 4 or more). Just when we thought we were doing good by getting a salad instead of steak...

I was wrong...Shoprite's Ranch dressing is 140 calories for 2 tablespoons...sad...

swimmermama

Yikes! Sorry!! I got distracted by making a good, home-cooked dinner for my family

It is here: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/07/20/138555722/restaurants-often-miss-the-mark-on-calorie-counts?sc=fb&cc=fp

bstamps12

Scary!

JennsLosing

now, being off within 10 or so calories i can understand. i would rather have an idea, rather than not know anything at all, but wow...1000? really? thats insane.