Applebees steamed broccoli 100 calories?

courtneycoble77
courtneycoble77 Posts: 16 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Why would a serving of steamed broccoli from Applebees be 100 calories but when I just plug in steamed broccoli it’s 35 calories for a serving?

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  • sollyn23l2
    sollyn23l2 Posts: 1,786 Member
    edited July 2023
    Because restaurants smother their vegetables in butter. The restaurants includes butter, but the "steamed" does not.
  • courtneycoble77
    courtneycoble77 Posts: 16 Member
    I didn’t taste butter on the broccoli 🤷‍♀️ but yeah I guess that makes sense
  • gininthegym
    gininthegym Posts: 47 Member
    I was just going to come on and say probably the butter.

    Broccoli is delicious just as it is - I'd hate to waste 100 kcal on unnecessary fats.
  • DFW_Tom
    DFW_Tom Posts: 220 Member
    It could be worse. According to Texas Roadhouse's nutrition guide, a side order of their steamed broccoli is 210 calories and has 16 grams of fat. 16 grams!!!
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,097 Member
    Agree it's probably butter (or maybe olive oil), but just want to point out that comparing a random database entry for "one serving" of broccoli to a restaurant's info on "one serving" of its broccoli means you're comparing one unknown quantity of broccoli to another unknown quantity of broccoli, so it's already surprising the calories would be different.
  • SafariGalNYC
    SafariGalNYC Posts: 1,559 Member
    I was just reading an article on this! They included the nutrition info…

    Applebee's Steamed Broccoli
    Ingredients
    A Steamed Broccoli from Applebee's contains the following ingredients:

    Broccoli: Broccoli, Whipped Butter: Pasteurized Cream, Salt, Seasoning: Salt, Black Pepper, Garlic*, Soybean Oil *Dehydrated
  • sollyn23l2
    sollyn23l2 Posts: 1,786 Member
    SafariGalNYC wrote: »
    I was just reading an article on this! They included the nutrition info…

    Applebee's Steamed Broccoli
    Ingredients
    A Steamed Broccoli from Applebee's contains the following ingredients:

    Broccoli: Broccoli, Whipped Butter: Pasteurized Cream, Salt, Seasoning: Salt, Black Pepper, Garlic*, Soybean Oil *Dehydrated

    And here I always wondered why vegetables taste so much better at a restaurant 🤣 I've been doing it all wrong.

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