
We found this on the internet and thought it was pretty interesting. I don’t know how much faith I put in Mens Health Magazine in general but that is where we got this list. What presuppositions about healthy food does this list make? Was there any surprises to you here (Jamba juice made the list!?! Blasphemy!!!)? How many of these sinful foods have you had and does having one of these foods make you a “bad” person? Post you thoughts to the comments here.
-Bryant
20: Worst Fast-Food Chicken Meal - Chicken Selects Premium Breast Strips from McDonald’s (5 pieces) with cream ranch sauce. 830 Calories, 55 grams fat (4.5 trans fat), 48 carbs. Add a large fries and regular soda and this seemingly innocuous chicken meal tops out at 1,710 calories.
19: Worst drink - Jamba Juice Chocolate Moo’d Power Smoothie (30 fl oz). 900 calories, 10 g fat, 183 carbs, 166 g sugar. Jamba Juice calls it a smoothie, MSNBC calls it a milk shake. The beverage contains as much sugar as 8 pints of Ben & Jerry’s butter pecan ice cream.
18: Worst supermarket meal - Pepperidge Farm Roasted Chicken Pot Pie (whole pie). 1,020 calories, 64 g fat, 86 g carbs. Label may say this pie serves two, but, whoever divided a small potpie in half? Once you crack the crust, there will be no stopping.
17: Worst ‘healthy’ burger - Ruby Tuesday Bella Turkey Burger. 1,145 calories, 71 g fat, 56 g carbs.
16: Worst Mexican entree - Chipotle Mexican Grill Chicken Burrito. 1,179 calories, 47 g fat, 125 g carbs, 2,656 mg sodium.
15: Worst kids’ meal - Macaroni Grill Double Macaroni ‘n’ Cheese. 1,210 calories, 62 g fat, 3,450 mg sodium. It’s like feeding your kid 1-1/2 boxes of Kraft mac’n'cheese.
14: Worst sandwich - Quiznos Classic Italian (large). 1,528 calories, 92 g fat, 4,604 mg sodium, 110 g carbs. A large homemade sandwich would more likely provided about 500 calories.
13: Worst salad - On the Border Grande Taco Salad with Taco Beef. 1,450 calories, 102 g fat, 78 g carbs, 2,410 mg sodium. This isn’t an anomaly: Five different On the Border salads on the menu contain more than 1, 100 calories each.
12: Worst burger - Carl’s Jr. (Hardee’s on East Coast) Double Six Dollar Burger. 1,520 calories! , 111g fat. Carl’s Jr. brags it’s home to this enormous sandwich, but the restaurant chain also provides convenient nutrition info on its Web site — so ignorance is no excuse for eating it.
11 : Worst steak - Lonestar 20 oz T-bone. 1,540 calories, 124g fat. Add a baked potato and Lonestar’s Signature Lettuce Wedge, and this is a 2,700 calorie blowout.
10: Worst breakfast - Bob Evans Caramel Banana Pecan Cream Stacked and Stuffed hotcakes. 1,540 calories, 77 g fat (9 g trans fat), 198 g carbs, 109 g sugar. Five Egg McMuffins yield the same caloric cost as this stack of sugar-stuffed flapjacks, which is truly a heavy breakfast, weighing in at a hefty pound and a half.
9: Worst dessert - Chili’s Chocolate Chip Paradise Pie with Vanilla Ice Cream. 1,600 calories, 78 g fat, 215 g carbs. Would you eat a Big Mac for dessert? How about three? That’s the calorie equivalent of this decadent dish. Clearly, Chili’s customers get their money’s worth.
8: Worst Chinese entree - P.F. Chang’s Pork Lo Mein. 1,820 calories, 127 g fat,! 95 g carbs. The fat content in this dish alone provides more than 1,100 calories. And you’d have to eat almost five servings of pasta to match the number of carbs it contains. Now, do you really need five servings of pasta?
7: Worst chicken entree - Chili’s Honey Chipotle Crispers with Chipotle Sauce. 2,040 calories, 99 g fat, 240 g carbs. ‘Crispers’ refers to an extra thick layer of break crumbs that soak up oil and adds unnecessary calories and carbs to these glorified chicken strips.
6: Worst fish entree - On the Border Dos XX Fish Tacos with Rice and Beans. 2,100 calories, 130 g fat, 169 g carbs, 4,700 mg sodium. Perhaps the most misleadingly named dish in America : A dozen crunchy tacos from Taco Bell will saddle you with fewer calories.
5: Worst pizza - Uno Chicago Grill Chicago Classic Deep Dish Pizza. 2,310 calories, 162 g fat, 123 g carbs, 4,470 mg sodium. Downing this ‘personal’ pizza is equivalent to eating 18 slices of Domino’s Crunchy Thin Crust cheese pizza.
4: Worst pasta - Macaroni Grill Spaghetti and Meatballs with Meat Sauce. 2,430 calories, 128 g fat, 207 g carbs, 5,290 mg sodium. This meal satisfied your calorie requirements for an entire day.
3: Worst nachos - On the Border Stacked Border Nachos. 2,740 calories, 166 g fat, 191 g carbs, 5,280 sodium.
2: Worst starter - Chili’s Awesome Blossom. 2,710 calories, 203 g fat, 194 g carbs, 6,360 mg sodium.
1: The worst food in America - Outback Steakhouse Aussie Cheese Fries with Ranch Dressing. 2,900 calories, 182g fat, 240g carbs. Even if you split these ’starters’ with three friends, you’ll have downed a dinner’s worth of calories before you entree arrives.
Yuck.
Comment by Chris J — July 29, 2008 @ 9:07 pm
I’m pretty sure chocolate mood smoothies were around during the ice ages, therefore acceptable paleo food…
Comment by jon winchester — July 29, 2008 @ 10:01 pm
My new mission in life: to eat each and every single item on this list. In one day. Booyah!
Comment by Juggins — July 30, 2008 @ 12:22 am
Yummy the chilis dessert, and YUKKY!!!
yes in my life as a fattie I have eaten most of the foods on the list, note I said “life as a fattie” which means one cannot expect thin and those foods
So James when are we going for a food day?
Comment by Jill Weinstein — July 30, 2008 @ 8:20 am
How did the deep-fried “onion blossom” with it’s dressing/dip escape this list? I don’t know which chain restaurant has those but I’m pretty sure they are awfully hefty in the calorie,carb,sodium and fat counts.
Comment by Caroline Kong — July 30, 2008 @ 9:10 am
OOPS!!!! It’s #2 on the list….. HA! Sorry for the goof.
Comment by Caroline Kong — July 30, 2008 @ 9:11 am
I came across this list too on a blog I subscribe to. No big surprises, but I do wonder how accurate some of the numbers are. I can honestly say I’ve only eaten one of these items, Carl Jrs. Burger and that was about three years ago. Not that I don’t indulge myself, just not with any of the Top 20 Worst Foods.
Comment by Cheryl M — July 30, 2008 @ 3:25 pm
The picture of whatever it is I have see someplace before………..I am a nurse!!!! YOu don’t want to know!!
Comment by Jill Weinstein — July 30, 2008 @ 3:39 pm
Worst idea: choosing a Carl’s Jr crapburger over Mr. Jack I.B.’s Ultimate Cheeseburger. Fine dining. After all, it’s healthier!
Comment by Josh Martindale — August 3, 2008 @ 9:27 pm