24 Surprisingly Healthy Fast Foods

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6 Diet-Friendly Desserts

McDonald's Vanilla Reduced Fat Ice Cream Cone

150 calories
3.5g fat, 2g saturated fat
With their velvety vanilla flavor, McDonald's perfectly sized cones don't taste like they're made with reduced-fat ice cream -- but thank goodness they are!

Taco Bell Cinnamon Twists

160 calories
5g fat, 1g saturated fat
The airy puffed corn underneath all the cinnamon and sugar makes this treat guilt-free.

Wendy's Jr. Frosty

160 calories
4g fat, 2.5g saturated fat
Thicker than a milk shake but thinner than a sundae, the four-ounce Jr. Frosty packs plenty of satisfaction into a quarter-pint cup.

KFC Lil' Bucket Strawberry Shortcake

200 calories
6g fat, 4g saturated fat
With significantly fewer calories than most other KFC desserts, this is one sweet find.

Pizza Hut Cherry Dessert Pizza

1 slice, 240 calories
3.5g fat, 0.5g saturated fat
It's not as virtuous as a bowl of cherries, but Pizza Hut's dessert pie has half the calories and less than a quarter of the fat of homemade cherry pie.

KFC Lemon Meringue Pie Slice

240 calories
9g fat, 2.5g saturated fat
Traditional shortening- or butter-packed crusts make home-baked lemon meringue pie a dieter's nightmare. But KFC's lemon meringue has fewer than three grams of artery-clogging saturated fat, putting it a slice above the rest.

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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