{"id":438,"date":"2010-08-25T04:48:59","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T11:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/associatesinnutrition.com\/wordpress\/?p=438"},"modified":"2010-08-25T04:50:27","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T11:50:27","slug":"beware-nutritional-trap-of-salad-dressings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatesinnutrition.com\/wordpress\/?p=438","title":{"rendered":"Beware Nutritional Trap of Salad Dressings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, a little 411 on salad dressings (and share this with any friends in the restaurant business).<\/p>\n<p>Ahhh, salad. Low calorie roughage, healthy veggies &#8230; sounds healthy. Intentions are great, but guess what? If you add &#8220;regular&#8221; salad dressing, you might as well skip the salad and just eat the burger you really wanted. Salad dressings are a real nutritional trap.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s look at restaurants. A typical salad dressing ladle holds 2 ounces, or 4 tablespoons of dressing. The average restaurant uses two ladles, or eight tablespoons of dressing on your salad.<\/p>\n<p>I normally recommend only 2 tablespoons of dressing, which would be one half of one ladle. Remember, a typical restaurant is giving you FOUR TIMES as much. You&#8217;ll see, by the chart below, that the low-cal or fat-free dressings make a measurable difference in how your week stacks up, nutritionally.<\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind that an average woman needs to hold her daily fat intake to less than 60 grams of fat, and a man, to less than 80 grams.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<strong>2 tablespoons of salad dressing   (my recommended portion)<\/strong><\/ul>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Ranch Regular<\/strong> -148 calories, 15.6 g fat (4x = over 60 g of fat in 2 ladles)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Ranch Lite<\/strong> (low-fat) &#8211; 80 calories, 6 g fat<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Ranch Fat-Free<\/strong> &#8211; 48 calories, 0.3 g fat<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Creamy Italian<\/strong> &#8211; 110 calories, 12 g fat (4x = 48 g of fat in 2 ladles)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Lite Italian<\/strong> &#8211; 50 calories, 5g fat<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Fat-free Italian<\/strong> &#8211; 20 calories, 0.3 g fat<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Balsamic Vinaigrette<\/strong> &#8211; 90 calories, 8 g fat (a better choice)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Lite Balsamic Vinaigrette<\/strong> &#8211; 45 calories, 3.5 g fat<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line: one salad, with two ladles of dressing, once a week, can easily be the equivalent of a whole day&#8217;s worth of fat intake. Ingest a little fat at breakfast and from your other meal, and that salad dressing can take you over your daily allotment &#8211; the exact opposite of your intentions.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, ask for salad dressings &#8220;on the side&#8221; and order the &#8220;low-fat&#8221; version. Then either dip your fork or salad in the dressing rather than pouring it on. You&#8217;ll save hundreds &#8211; or thousands &#8211; of fat grams in a year.<\/p>\n<p>How can you guesstimate the 2-tablespoon serving size I&#8217;m recommending? The top of your thumb is equal to about 1 tablespoon. A ping-pong ball or shot glass or an Oreo cookie is about 2 tablespoons. At that quantity, even the biggest offender &#8211; regular ranch &#8211; is only one fourth or less of your daily recommended fat allotment.<\/p>\n<p>Restaurants average 10 cents in cost per 2 tablespoons of regular dressing. Two ladles is thus .40 cents worth; a 2-tablespoon serving on the side would save .30 per salad (and 45 g of fat, per salad, per customer).<\/p>\n<p>If, for example, 94 restaurants implemented salad dressing awareness they could save customers 38,070,000 grams of FAT and $296,100.00 in just 30 days. One restaurant has potential quarterly savings of $9,450 (and saves its customers 1,215,000 grams of fat).<\/p>\n<p>I declare August, not only back to school month, but Salad Dressing Awareness month!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intentions are great, but guess what? If you add &#8220;regular&#8221; salad dressing, you might as well skip the salad and just eat the burger you really wanted. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268,4,44],"tags":[21,370,28,369,380,22,375,371,368,376],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-nutrition","category-weight-loss","tag-calories","tag-carbs","tag-diet","tag-fat","tag-health","tag-low-fat","tag-nutrition","tag-roughage","tag-salad","tag-weight-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatesinnutrition.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatesinnutrition.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatesinnutrition.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatesinnutrition.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatesinnutrition.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/associatesinnutrition.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443,"href":"https:\/\/associatesinnutrition.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatesinnutrition.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatesinnutrition.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatesinnutrition.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}