24 Surprisingly Healthy Fast Foods

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Taco Bell Picks

Taco Bell Fresco Style Crunchy Taco

150 calories
7g fat, 2.5g saturated fat
When you ask for your meal Fresco Style, you get fresh salsa (packed with cancer-fighting lycopene) instead of fatty cheese and sauce. Pair your taco with a safe but filling side (like beans or rice), so you won't be hungry again before you leave the parking lot.

Taco Bell Fresco Style Grilled Steak Soft Taco

170 calories
5g fat, 1.5g saturated fat
Although red meat does deliver a little fat, it also adds protein, zinc, iron, and vitamin B12.

Taco Bell Fresco Style Tostada

200 calories
6g fat, 1g saturated fat
A flat corn shell topped with fiber-rich beans, Fiesta salsa, tangy red sauce, and lettuce makes a healthy taco alternative.

Taco Bell Gordita Nacho Cheese -- Chicken

270 calories
10g fat, 2.5g saturated fat
Not all our picks come from the healthier Fresco Style menu. This one is smothered in cheese but still manages to squeeze in under 300 calories.

Next: Pizza Hut and Wendy's Picks

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whittyvice wrote:

I don't believe the purpose of this article is to promote fast food, or to suggest that these are indeed healthy foods. It is simply realistic- IF you're going to eat fast food, these are some of the lesser diet evils.

3/31/2013 02:26:42 PM Report Abuse

aharpton wrote:

I am a medical doctor and the non-sense in this ad for these fast-food restaurants is embarrassing. The sad thing is that people will believe this garbage as health advice. My medical advice is to stay away from these restaurants!

2/15/2013 06:43:46 PM Report Abuse

kyte131 wrote:

What the article fails to mention is that 3 of the 5 fast food restaurants listed (KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell) are all owned by the same major conglomerate, Yum! Brands. The food choices listed here are still *laughably* unhealthy, so I have to wonder why this list fails to include many of the other alternatives that do happen to be relatively natural and nutritionally sound. As another poster mentioned, it's just a thinly-veiled ad for the massive corporate purveyors of this garbage. Shameful.

1/23/2013 09:24:03 PM Report Abuse

unearthlychild wrote:

This travesty would never happen in any other country, you have to admit it your country has got bolloxed up when your fitness magazines are thinly disguised adverts for multibillion dollar fast food chains.

12/12/2012 12:14:20 PM Report Abuse

phq wrote:

That "Canadian Bacon" you mention on the Egg McMuffin is really "ham" anywhere but the US. Just sayin!!

7/6/2011 01:41:00 PM Report Abuse