Monday, October 18, 2010

18 Salad Bar Survival Tips

Mushrooms

Non-toxic, hallucinogenic or nutritious.

Creamy salad

A.k.a. the white death. If you have some slaw or, worse, macaroni salad (3 / 4 cup = 26 grams of fat!) At least put it on raw vegetables. The mayo will serve as a salad dressing.

Radish

No matter how you slice ‘em, these are roots. Worse, they are rootless a nutritional supplement to stand leg. You may need to eat half a cup to take a gram (g) of fiber, which is not enough to keep even an ordinary rabbit.

Alfalfa Sprouts

Do not worry about these small health-food fraud. A half-cup serving provides that traces of nutrients. But they are virtually calorie-free, if you really thanks to their taste, knock-you.

Carrots

The shredding raw carrots gives a whole new quality: They become edible. Mix, are not top your salad with a quarter cup of them, and you’ll eat nearly a full day of the value of beta-carotene.

Cauliflower

Broccoli milled cousin has only a fraction of vitamin C and beta-carotene. You are better doubling on broccoli and skipping this pale imitator.

sunflower seeds

A few spoonfuls have potassium and magnesium to lower blood pressure and folic acid helps prevent heart disease.

black olives

Although these bombs little fat does hurt your heart, they will not help much. You may need to eat 10 to get only 3 grams of cholesterol-lowering mono-unsaturated fats.

Chickpeas

Despite its name, this is not something you find in Penthouse. A half-cup of 6 g protein, 5 g fiber and certain vitamins B.

boiled eggs

It has 6 grams of protein and some lutein and zeaxanthin, May phytochemicals that reduce your risk of age-related vision loss.

cherry tomatoes

Once for once, few of these releases are most prostate protection of lycopene than their big brothers.

cucumbers

Low in nutrients, fiber and taste. Maybe that’s why people drown ‘em in vinegar and pickles appeal.

The iceberg lettuce, mesclun salad greens

– Sage nutrients, iceberg lettuce allows your diet as much as real icebergs helped the Titanic. But mesclun greens contain folic acid, the fight against heart disease, and fiber, spit shine your colon walls.

Cottage cheese

The best choice of cheese on the bar. A half-cup of full-fat stuff has only 108 calories and 5 grams of fat, and gives you 13 grams of protein.

Broccoli

Six florets give you a day’s worth of vitamin C and 20 per cent of your beta-carotene. Bonus: broccoli is rich in a polysyllabic number of compounds that appear to have anticancer properties. Eat whatever you can take.

grated cheddar cheese

A half-cup of cheddar cheese has 19 grams of fat – about what you get in a fast-food taco. Try to limit yourself to a tablespoon.

Mysterious extras (bacon bits, croutons, Chinese noodles)

They are salted, they are crunchy, they are more like pretzels and vegetables. Of the three, croutons are best. Ten croutons add up to about 50 calories and 2 grams of fat. Chinese Noodles tend to be greasier. And bacon bits? Well, they are bacon, and we all know that the health situation.

Dressing

Low-fat dressing is not low in calories, so go easy on. A better bet? The canola oil and red wine vinegar. The oil contains omega-3 fatty acids to reduce your risk of heart disease. Vinegar adds flavonoids keep your blood flowing smoothly.

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