Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Our Take: Health's Top 10 Chain Breakfasts a Joke

Editors at Health magazine gave USA TODAY an advance look at their top 10 picks for healthy chain-restaurant breakfasts, which will be featured in the March issue: ** only two of the ten made our grade.

1. Cosi's spinach Florentine breakfast wrap, 334 calories. Our take: way too high in sodium, fat, and cholesterol, and fake ingredients
**2. Starbucks' protein artisan snack plate with a hard-boiled egg, cheddar cheese and apple slices, multigrain muesli bread, grapes and honey-butter spread, 370 calories. Our take: okay sans the honey butter spread
3. Jamba Juice's berry topper ideal meal, 12 ounces, made with yogurt, soy milk, strawberries, blueberries, banana and topped with pumpkin flaxseed granola, 300. Our take: too much sugar
4. Au Bon Pain's apple-cinnamon oatmeal, 12 ounces, 280 calories. Our take: where's the protein or healthy fat?
5. Denny's scrambled egg whites, chicken sausage and fruit, 230 calories. Our take: gargantuanly high in fat and sodium
6. McDonald's fruit and maple oatmeal, without brown sugar, 260 calories. Our take: all sugar: where's the protein or healthy fat
**7. IHOP's simple and fit veggie omelet, 320 calories. Our take: high in sodium but otherwise okay
8. Subway's Western egg white and cheese muffin melt, 160 calories.
Our take: high in sodium and fake ingredients
9. Dunkin' Donuts' egg white turkey sausage wake-up wrap, 150 calories. Our take: high in sodium and fake ingredients
10. Panera Bread's breakfast power sandwich, made with Vermont white cheddar and smoked lean ham, 330 calories. Our take: high in sodium and fake ingredients

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