Fast-food restaurants are loading their menus with nutritious-sounding options in a bid to draw more-health-conscious consumers. But how healthy are these options?
Health-Washing: Is ‘Healthy’ Fast Food for Real?
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The oat is not the only ingredient that's undergone a McMakeover. The grilled chicken in the otherwise inoffensive Premium Caesar Salad (220 cal., 6 g of fat and 5 g of sugar per serving — without the dressing) is listed as "grilled chicken breast fillet," which would lead one to assume that it is breast meat. Nope. Instead, it's reconstituted rib meat combined with 22 seasonings and additives of the "polysorbate 80" and "autolyzed yeast extract" variety.