THE BEST & WORST BREAKFASTS.What Americans traditionally eat for breakfast is a mixture of some of the best and some of the worst foods you can find. Among the worst: * fatty sweets (danish, doughnuts, cinnamon cinnamon, name for trees and shrubs of the genus Cinnamomum of the family Lauraceae (laurel family). Cinnamon spice comes chiefly from the Sri Lankan cinnamon (C. zeylanicum), now cultivated in several tropical regions. rolls), * fatty, salty salt·y adj. salt·i·er, salt·i·est 1. Of, containing, or seasoned with salt. 2. Suggestive of the sea or sailing life. 3. Witty; pungent; earthy: salty humor. meats (sausage, bacon, ham), and * eggs (whose yolks add more cholesterol to the average American's diet than any other single food). Among the best: * fresh fruit (oranges, bananas ba·nan·as adj. Slang Crazy: "That's the horrible thing when you're bananas , berries) or juice, * dairy foods (low-fat milk Noun 1. low-fat milk - milk from which some of the cream has been removed milk - a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings , yogurt yogurt: see fermented milk. yogurt Semisolid, fermented, often flavoured milk food. Yogurt is known and consumed in almost all parts of the world. ), and * whole grains (whole-grain hot or cold cereals, whole-wheat toast). The trouble is that the food industry keeps tempting us with new worsts. "Dessert for breakfast is a trend that we have been following for several years," Eleanor Hanson of Foodwatch recently told Restaurants & Institutions magazine. Foodwatch is an Edina, Minnesota Edina is a first-ring suburb situated immediately southwest of Minneapolis in Hennepin County, Minnesota, USA. Edina began as a small farming and milling community in the 1860s, consisting of mostly Scottish and Irish immigrants, and today has grown to a full service metropolitan , consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a that analyzes food trends. "We're seeing streusel streu·sel n. A crumblike topping for coffee cakes and rich breads, consisting of flour, sugar, butter, cinnamon, and sometimes chopped nutmeats. in cereal, chocolate in muffins and scones, and monster-size cinnamon rolls. Blurring is occurring on the sweets continuum." People who think twice about having a DoveBar for dessert might not suspect that an Almond almond, name for a small tree (Prunus amygdalus) of the family Rosaceae (rose family) and for the nutlike, edible seed of its drupe fruit. The "nuts" of sweet-almond varieties are eaten raw or roasted and are pressed to obtain almond oil. Croissant from Au Bon Pain Au Bon Pain (French: At the Place with the Good Bread) is a fast-casual bakery/cafe chain headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Louis Rapuano and Louis Kane founded Au Bon Pain in 1978. Pavailler contributed baking machinery to the venture. is worse than two DoveBars. Do you really want to "grab and go" 630 calories, nearly a day's worth of artery-clogging fat, and five teaspoons of sugar? Another trend: mega-sandwiches. McDonald's new bagel sandwiches have at least double the fat and calories of its pioneering Egg McMuffin. And its Spanish Omelet Spanish omelet n. An omelet served with an often spicy sauce of tomatoes, onions, and peppers. Bagel has more fat and calories than a Big Mac or a Quarter Pounder The Quarter Pounder is a sandwich sold by international fast food chain McDonald's. Along with the Big Mac, it is one of McDonald's two signature products. Product description with Cheese. We examined popular breakfast items from fast-food chains, sit-down restaurants, and supermarkets (see chart on p. 7). Most of the numbers came from the manufacturers. When their information fell short, we sent a handful of items--from places like Au Bon Pain, Dunkin' Donuts Sources: Dunkin' Donuts is an international coffee and donut retailer founded in 1950 in Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S. by William Rosenberg. Corporate Profile History , and Einstein Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) Bagels--to an independent laboratory for analysis. The results should sound a wakeup call Wakeup Call is a morning radio program produced in New York City by the WBAI station of the Pacifica Radio Network. The program is hosted by Deepa Fernandes and airs Monday through Friday. . If restaurant foods came with the same "Nutrition Facts" labels you can read on, say, the back of a cereal box, the lines at Dunkin' Donuts might be a lot shorter. Cereal The more you look at the breakfasts people eat outside the home, the better cereal looks. True, some cereals are more than a third sugar and are mostly--or all--refined flour plus a quarter of a vitamin pill. And that list includes not just kids-only brands but cereals like General Mills' Frosted Wheaties. But even those low-fiber "candy cereals" are relatively low in calories (about 120 per serving) and fat (assuming you eat them with one percent or skim milk skim milk n. The milk from which the cream has been removed. skim milk the residue from whole milk after the cream has been skimmed off. In today's usage it is the residue after the butterfat is removed. ). High-fiber, whole-grain, low-sugar cereals like shredded wheat Shredded Wheat is a breakfast cereal made from whole wheat. It comes in two sizes, bite sized (3/4 in x 1 in), and normal size, which are sometimes broken into small pieces before adding milk. , Wheaties, or bran flakes Noun 1. bran flake - wheat flake including the bran cold cereal, dry cereal - a cereal that is not heated before serving make a topnotch breakfast, especially if you add flesh fruit. No other breakfast offers so much fiber, calcium, and other nutrients for so few calories and so little fat. If you're eating at the office ("desk-fast"), bring cereal and plain low-fat yogurt (if milk is too messy) in a plastic container. It should only take a minute to slice in a banana or throw on some blueberries. Caution: Don't confuse cereal with cereal bars. The bars may be low in fat and fortified fortified (fôrt  ´fīd),adj containing additives more potent than the principal ingredient. with vitamins, but they're not high in whole grains or fiber, and people are less likely to eat them with low-fat milk or flesh fruit. While the fruit splashed over the ads and labels looks good, it's the equivalent of a generous swipe of jam on Jam On is a Jam Bands radio station on Sirius Satellite Radio channel 17 and Dish Network channel 6017. It has featured basketball great Bill Walton hosting a Grateful Dead show, Woodstock MC Wavy Gravy, and pedal steel genius Buddy Cage as a DJ. a slice of mostly white bread. Our chart puts bars in the "Pastries" section ... where they belong. Eggs It's not just the eggs that make egg breakfasts so fatty. It's the fat they're cooked in, the sausage or cheese in the omelet, and what comes on the side. Most people who eat egg for breakfast have them with something else. And that something is often buttered toast, hash browns hash browns pl.n. Chopped cooked potatoes, fried until brown. Also called hash brown potatoes. , sausage, bacon, biscuits, or a croissant. That's why a McDonald's Big Breakfast (scrambled eggs scram·bled eggs pl.n. 1. Eggs with the yolks and whites beaten together and cooked to a firm but soft consistency. 2. Slang The gold braid worn on the bill of the cap of a field-grade officer in the armed services. , sausage, hash browns, and a biscuit biscuit, n the firing bakes, or stages (referred to as low, medium, and high), during the fusing of dental porcelain preceding the final, or glaze, bake. biscuit in dogs, a grayish-yellow coat color. ) or a Denny's Grand Slam grand slam n. 1. The winning of all the tricks during the play of one hand in bridge and other whist-derived card games. 2. Sports The winning of all the major or specified events, especially on a professional circuit. (eggs, sausage, bacon, and pancakes) supplies three-quarters of a day's fat and saturated fat saturated fat, any solid fat that is an ester of glycerol and a saturated fatty acid. The molecules of a saturated fat have only single bonds between carbon atoms; if double bonds are present in the fatty acid portion of the molecule, the fat is said to be . And that's why a Denny's Slim Slam (Egg Beaters n. 1. a small device having one or usually two blades, each having several stiff oval wires at the tip. The blades are swirled or rotated for beating eggs or whipping cream. , pancakes with fruit topping, and grilled ham) does away with three-quarters of the fat in the Grand Slam--largely by replacing what comes on the side. Of course, fast-food chains are now happy to serve you eggs-to-go ... on a bagel, croissant, biscuit, or English muffin. And they pile on enough sausage, ham, cheese, and cooking grease to make sure that you get the equivalent of a burger or worse (see "Breakfast Sandwiches A breakfast sandwich is a sandwich served at breakfast. Breakfast sandwiches typically are made using breakfast meats, breads, eggs and cheese. These sandwiches were typically regional specialties until fast food restaurants began serving breakfast. & Hash Browns," p. 7). Muffins Our appetite for muffins grew by 25 percent from 1987 to 1996. That's not all that grew. Entenmann's still sells 2 1/2-ounce Blueberry blueberry, plant of the large genus Vaccinium, widely distributed shrubs (occasionally small trees) of the family Ericaceae (heath family), usually found on acid soil. They are often confused with the related huckleberry. Muffins. But McDonald's and Dunkin' Donuts' muffins approach four ounces, and the muffins at Au Bon Pain come closer to five. That means calories in the 300 to 500 range, ten to 20 grams of fat, and five to ten teaspoons of total sugars (including the sugar from the berries or other fruit). The good news is that the fat in muffins is less of a threat to your arteries than the fat in doughnuts, danish, and croissants. Only two to four grams per muffin are saturated or trans fat trans fat n. 1. A trans fatty acid. 2. Trans fatty acids considered as a group. trans fat A fat containing trans fatty acids. (exception: Dunkin's Chocolate Chip Chocolate chips are small chunks of chocolate. They are often sold in a round, flat-bottomed teardrop shape (similar to a Hershey's Kiss). They are available in numerous sizes, from large to miniature, but are usually around 1 cm in diameter. Muffin hits six). Another plus: McDonald's, Dunkin' Donuts (though not at every outlet), and Au Bon Pain all sell low-fat muffins that trim the calories to 250 to 300 and the fat to no more than three or four grams. And all sell bran muffins Noun 1. bran muffin - muffin containing bran muffin, gem - a sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan with at least three grams of fiber, so you get some of the bran's phytochemicals and nutrients. But you're still talking about mostly white flour and sugar for breakfast. Doughnuts All doughnuts are not created equal. "Cake" doughnuts can have twice as much fat as "yeast yeast, name applied specifically to a certain group of microscopic fungi and to commercial products consisting of masses of dried yeast cells or of yeast mixed with a starchy material and pressed into yeast cakes. " doughnuts. And a chocolate or coconut coconut, fruit of the coco palm (Cocos nucifera), a tree widely distributed through tropical regions. The seed is peculiarly adapted to dispersal by water because the large pod holding the nut is buoyant and impervious to moisture. coating or frosting frosting the slight graying of the haircoat around the face, particularly muzzle, in dogs with aging and as a regular feature of some breeds such as the Belgian shepherd dog. is worse than other coatings, whether it's yeast or cake. Take a Glazed glaze n. 1. A thin smooth shiny coating. 2. A thin glassy coating of ice. 3. a. A coating of colored, opaque, or transparent material applied to ceramics before firing. b. or Sugar Raised yeast Donut at Dunkin' Donuts. Eat only one (good luck!) and you can get away with about 200 calories, a teaspoon tea·spoon n. Abbr. tsp., tsp A measure of about 1 fluid dram or 5 milliliters. teaspoon a household unit of volume or capacity approximately equal to 5 milliliters. or two of sugar, and eight or 12 grams of fat. That's not terrific. Like any dough nut, the trans fat in the frying shortening matches the damage caused by the saturated fat. We found six grams--nearly a third of a day's worth--of "bad" fat (sat plus trans) in one yeast Glazed Donut. But you could do a lot worse. A single Dunkin' Donuts Chocolate Cake Glazed Donut, for example, has 340 calories, three teaspoons of sugar, and 22 grams of fat--12 of them trans or saturated. Of course, doughnut lovers seldom stop at one. Dunkin' makes it tough by running frequent promotions like "Buy six, get six free." And don't let your eyes wander over to the crullers, flitters, or coffee rolls while you're waiting in line. Think of each as 250 to 300 calories of deep-flied sugarcoated flour. Bagels You can't talk about bagels without talking about cream cheese. And it's the cream cheese that can turn a decent breakfast into a lousy lous·y adj. lous·i·er, lous·i·est 1. Infested with lice. 2. Extremely contemptible; nasty: a lousy trick. 3. one. Unless you get whole-wheat or multi-grain, your bagel is essentially three to five one-ounce slices of white bread. That typically means about 250 to 350 calories, little or no fat or sugar, and 500 to 700 mg of sodium. (A few varieties, like chocolate chip, cheese, or nut, might hit four to seven grams of fat.) While you may not be getting whole grains or fruit in a bagel-only breakfast, you're also not getting a load of fried fat and/or sugar, like you would with a doughnut, danish, croissant, or muffin. Then there's the shmear shmear n. Slang Variant of schmeer. Noun 1. shmear - (Yiddish) a batch of things that go together; "he bought the whole schmeer" schmear, schmeer . At Dunkin' Donuts, the largest bagel-seller in the country, a plain bagel with (regular) cream cheese has 540 calories and 19 grams of fat, 12 of them saturated--more than half a day's worth. Who knew? And don't think you're getting much protein from the cream cheese. It's more cream than cheese. In contrast, at most Einstein Bros locations, all the cream cheeses are "double whipped," which means they have at least a quarter less fat than regular (non-whipped) cream cheese. And eight of the 11 flavors have half the fat of regular cream cheese. (Those eight are labeled "25 percent reduced fat"--don't ask us why Einstein doesn't call them "50 percent reduced fat" or "light.") Solution: At home, if you're not willing to go naked or use fat-flee cream cheese, try preserves, tub margarine margarine, manufactured substitute for butter. It consists of a blend of vegetable oils or meat fats (or a combination of both) mixed with milk and salt. It was developed in the late 1860s by the French chemist Hippolyte Mège-Mouries in a contest sponsored by , or a thin layer of light cream cheese (it's got half the fat of regular). Outside, if it's gotta got·ta Informal Contraction of got to: I gotta go home. be cream cheese, make sure you get Einstein's 25% reduced fat or Au Bon Pain's or Dunkin' Donuts' lite (spelling) lite - (Misspelling of "light", when used to mean "lightweight") A suffix denoting a scaled-down or crippled product, often designed to be distributed without charge, e.g. on a magazine coverdisk. An example is pklite. (they both have half the fat of regular) ... and get it on the side, so you can use a thin layer. Cream cheese used to be the worst thing you could do to a bagel. No longer. The new bagel sandwiches make cream cheese look good. Breakfast Sandwiches Burger King's most popular breakfast item is the Croissan wich. Each day, the number-two chain dispatches more than 800,000 to coronary arteries Coronary arteries The two main arteries that provide blood to the heart. The coronary arteries surround the heart like a crown, coming out of the aorta, arching down over the top of the heart, and dividing into two branches. across the nation. Leave it to BK to combine all three of the worst breakfast foods--pastry, sausage, and egg--into one cheap, hold-in-your-hand package. Now you can gobble up Verb 1. gobble up - eat a large amount of food quickly; "The children gobbled down most of the birthday cake" garbage down, shovel in, bolt down eat - take in solid food; "She was eating a banana"; "What did you eat for dinner last night?" 500-some calories and more than half a day's bad fat and cholesterol while you wait at a traffic light. Maybe Burger King's recent success inspired McDonald's, Dunkin' Donuts, and Einstein Bros to create their bagel sandwiches. Most will run you 500 to 600 calories and half a day's fat, sat fat, and sodium. That's like eating a Big Mac. Missing are the fruit, low-fat milk, and high-fiber whole grains that many people eat at breakfast--or not at all. Cinnamon Rolls Like muffins, cinnamon rolls are, well, on a roll, climbing 25 percent between 1987 and 1996. They're nothing more than breakfast cake. But at least when you buy Pillsbury Cinnamon Rolls at the supermarket, there's a chance that you'll eat only one, which means 150 calories, five grams of fat, and two teaspoons of sugar. Move up to Pillsbury Grands and the numbers double. But that's still better than the Cini-minis Pillsbury makes for Burger King. With icing, your "mini" fast-food breakfast totals 530 calories, nine teaspoons of sugar, and 22 grams of fat, nine of them saturated or trans. Cini-minis have doubled Burger King's breakfast sales. What's next? Cini-minis with chocolate coating, M&M's, and Reese's Pieces Reese's Pieces are a peanut butter-flavored candy manufactured by The Hershey Company. They are circular in shape, and covered in candy shells that are colored yellow, orange, or brown. ? French Toast At home, you can make delicious French toast with whole-wheat bread, low-fat milk, and Egg Beaters. With Burger King's French Toast Sticks you get white bread and enough sugar and flying grease to supply 500 calories and half a day's "bad" fat. And the company sells over 165 million sticks a year. Hash Browns Potatoes are the most frequently ordered breakfast food in restaurants. Fast-food hash browns are fattier than flies. And Burger King's are fattier than McDonald's. Fatwise, a small order of Burger King's Hash Brown Hash browns or hashed browns are a simple potato preparation in which potato pieces are pan-fried after being diced, riced, shredded, or julienned. In some cultures, hash browns or hashed browns Rounds is like the chain's Bacon Cheeseburger. And a large order means 70 percent more fat to line your arteries, which brings us to ... THE BEST & WORST CHAINS Between its hash browns, French Toast Sticks, Croissan'wiches, and Cini-minis, Burger King deserves special recognition for its efforts to block Americans' arteries before they get to work. It wins our coveted cov·et v. cov·et·ed, cov·et·ing, cov·ets v.tr. 1. To feel blameworthy desire for (that which is another's). See Synonyms at envy. 2. To wish for longingly. See Synonyms at desire. "Breakfast Busters This is a list of Busters from the manga Beet the Vandel Buster. The Beet Warriors Beet Beet is a young boy who has always desired to be the strongest Buster. He aspires to be like his heroes, the Zenon Warriors, who are known as the strongest of all Busters. " award. Bypass Burger King before you need your own bypass. In contrast, Einstein Bros deserves a "Breakfast Boosters" award for switching to lower-fat cream cheese. We've still got plenty of bones to pick with its menu. But eight flavors of lower-fat cream cheese--from cappuccino cap·puc·ci·no n. pl. cap·puc·ci·nos Espresso coffee mixed or topped with steamed milk or cream. [Italian, to jalapeno salsa--is a trend we'd like to see spread. THE BREAKFAST BREAKDOWN Within each category, foods are ranked from least to most saturated fat, then total fat, then sodium (or total sugars for cereals, muffins, and pastries). But those nutrients tell only part of the story. Foods like fresh fruit, whole-grain breads and cereals, and low-fat milk or yogurt can supply vitamins, minerals, fiber, and phytochemicals that you won't get from cereal bars, Pop-Tarts, Frosted Flakes “Frosties” redirects here. For the cola-flavored hard candy, see Frosties (candy). Frosted Flakes (North American countries) or Frosties (UK, Commonwealth of Nations and EU countries) is a cereal similar to Corn Flakes from Kellogg's, but coated with , and other foods that top the lists below. Note: Numbers for generic restaurant foods like scrambled eggs and pancakes with syrup syrup /syr·up/ (sir´up) a concentrated solution of a sugar, such as sucrose, in water or other aqueous liquid, sometimes with a medicinal agent added; usually used as a flavored vehicle for drugs. are based on our analyses of typical breakfasts served at sit-down restaurants. Numbers from our latest lab analyses are shaded in dark green.
Total Fat
Bagels Calories (grams)
Dunkin' Donuts Bagel, plain (4.5 oz.) 340 1
Einstein Bros Plain Bagel with 25%
reduced fat plain cream cheese
(4.5 oz.) 380 6
Dunkin' Donuts Plain Bagel w/plain
regular cream cheese (6.5 oz.) 540 19
Breakfast Sandwiches & Hash Browns
McDonald's Hash Browns (2 oz.) 150 10
McDonald's Egg McMuffin (5 oz.)(#) 290 12
Burger King Biscuit with Egg
(4.5 oz.)(#) 380 21
McDonald's Sausage McMuffin (4 oz.) 360 23
McDonald's Bacon, Egg & Cheese Biscuit
(5.5 oz.)(#) 470 28
Einstein Bros Way Homestyle (on a
plain bagel) with turkey sausage
(9 oz.)(#) 600 22
McDonald's Ham, Egg & Cheese Bagel
(7.5 oz.)(#) 550 25
Burger King Hash Brown Rounds,
small (3 oz.) 300 20
McDonald's Sausage McMuffin with
Egg (5.5 OZ.)(#) 440 28
McDonald's Steak, Egg & Cheese Bagel
(8.5 oz.)(#) 650 31
Burger King Croissan'wich w/Sausage
& Cheese (3.5 oz.) 450 32
Burger King Croissan'wich with
Sausage, Egg & Cheese (5.5 oz.)(#) 510 36
McDonald's Spanish Omelet Bagel
(9 oz.)(#) 680 39
Burger King Biscuit w/Sausage, Egg
& Cheese (6.5 oz.)(#) 620 43
McDonald's Sausage Biscuit With
Egg (5.5 oz.)(#) 520 36
Eggs
Scrambled egg substitute (2 eggs'
worth) 130 6
Denny's Slim Slam 600 12
Scrambled eggs (2)(#) 290 13
McDonald's-Big Breakfast (10 oz.)(#) 760 51
Denny's Grand Slam(#) 800 50
Ham & cheese omelette (3 eggs)(#) 510 39
French Toast, Pancakes, & Waffles
Eggo Nutri-Grain whole Wheat
Waffles (2--25 oz.) 140 3
McDonald's Hotcakes, plain (5.5 oz.) 340 9
McDonald's Hotcakes w/margarine and
syrup (8 oz.) 610 18
Pancakes (4) with syrup (1/4 cup) 870 16
French toast (3 slices) with syrup
(1/4 cup)(#) 800 26
Burger King French Toast Sticks with
syrup (5 oz.) 480 22
Belgian waffle (1) with fruit &
whipped topping(#) 900 32
Sat Fat
Bagels (grams) Sodium (mg)
Dunkin' Donuts Bagel, plain (4.5 oz.) 0 710
Einstein Bros Plain Bagel with 25%
reduced fat plain cream cheese
(4.5 oz.) 4 610
Dunkin' Donuts Plain Bagel w/plain
regular cream cheese (6.5 oz.) 12(*) 800
Breakfast Sandwiches & Hash Browns
McDonald's Hash Browns (2 oz.) 5(*) 350
McDonald's Egg McMuffin (5 oz.)(#) 5 790
Burger King Biscuit with Egg
(4.5 oz.)(#) 5 1,010
McDonald's Sausage McMuffin (4 oz.) 8 740
McDonald's Bacon, Egg & Cheese Biscuit
(5.5 oz.)(#) 8 1,250
Einstein Bros Way Homestyle (on a
plain bagel) with turkey sausage
(9 oz.)(#) 9(*) 1,290
McDonald's Ham, Egg & Cheese Bagel
(7.5 oz.)(#) 9 1,530
Burger King Hash Brown Rounds,
small (3 oz.) 10(*) 580
McDonald's Sausage McMuffin with
Egg (5.5 OZ.)(#) 10 890
McDonald's Steak, Egg & Cheese Bagel
(8.5 oz.)(#) 11 1,300
Burger King Croissan'wich w/Sausage
& Cheese (3.5 oz.) 12 940
Burger King Croissan'wich with
Sausage, Egg & Cheese (5.5 oz.)(#) 14(*) 1,110
McDonald's Spanish Omelet Bagel
(9 oz.)(#) 14 1,560
Burger King Biscuit w/Sausage, Egg
& Cheese (6.5 oz.)(#) 14 1,650
McDonald's Sausage Biscuit With
Egg (5.5 oz.)(#) 16(*) 1,230
Eggs
Scrambled egg substitute (2 eggs'
worth) 2(*) 190
Denny's Slim Slam 3 1,760
Scrambled eggs (2)(#) 5(*) 180
McDonald's-Big Breakfast (10 oz.)(#) 13 1,580
Denny's Grand Slam(#) 14 2,240
Ham & cheese Omelette (3 eggs)(#) 19(*) 1,200
French Toast, Pancakes, & Waffles
Eggo Nutri-Grain whole Wheat
Waffles (2--25 oz.) 1 430
McDonald's Hotcakes, plain (5.5 oz.) 2 540
McDonald's Hotcakes w/margarine and
syrup (8 oz.) 4 680
Pancakes (4) with syrup (1/4 cup) 6(*) 1,960
French toast (3 slices) with syrup
(1/4 cup)(#) 8(*) 730
Burger King French Toast Sticks with
syrup (5 oz.) 9(*) 360
Belgian waffle (1) with fruit &
whipped topping(#) 19(*) 1,160
Total Fat
Cereals Calories (grams)
(see March 1999 NAH for a
more-complete listing)
Kellogg's Frosted Flakes
(3/4 cup--1 oz.) 120 0
Kellogg's Complete Wheat Bran Flakes
(3/4 cup--1 oz.) 90 1
Oatmeal, plain (1 cup cooked--8.5 oz.) 150 2
Muffins (one muffin)
Dunkin' Donuts Lowfat Blueberry
(3.5 oz.) 250 2
McDonald's Lowfat Apple Bran (4 oz.) 300 3
Au Bon Pain Low Fat Triple Berry (4 oz.) 260 4
Entenmann's Blueberry (2.5 oz.) 220 9
Dunkin' Donuts Bran or Honey Raisin
Bran (4 oz.) 410 14
Dunkin' Donuts Corn (3.5 oz.) 390 15
Dunkin' Donuts Blueberry (3.5 oz.) 300 10
Au Bon Pain Blueberry (4.5 oz.) 430 18
Au Bon Pain Carrot Pecan (5 oz.) 480 23
Au Bon Pain Chocolate Chip (4.5 oz.) 490 20
Pastries, etc. (one, unless
otherwise noted)
Kellogg's Nutri-Grain Cereal Bars,
Strawberry (1.5 oz.) 140 3
Kellogg's Low Fat Frosted Strawberry
Pop-Tarts (2 oz.) 190 3
Pillsbury Cinnamon Rolls (1.5 oz.) 150 5
Pillsbury Grands Cinnamon Rolls (3.5 oz.) 320 10
Entenmann's Crumb Coffee Cake
(1/10--2 oz.) 250 12
Dunkin' Donuts Boston Kreme Donut (yeast)
(3.5 oz.) 300 8
Dunkin' Donuts Glazed Donut
(yeast) (2 oz.) 220 12
Dunkin' Donuts Chocolate-FroSted Donut
(yeast) (2 oz.) 260 13
Dunkin' Donuts Jelly Filled Donut
(yeast) (3 oz.) 310 13
Au Bon Pain Plain Croissant (2 oz.) 270 15
Burger King Cini-minis with Icing
(4.5 oz.) 530 22
Dunkin' Donuts Chocolate Cake Glazed Donut
(2.5 oz.) 340 22
Cinnabon Caramel Pecanbon (8 oz.) 890 41
Starbucks Cinnamon Scone (5 oz.) 530 26
Au Bon Pain Almond Croissant (5 oz.) 630 42
Au Bon Pain Danish with Sweet Cheese
Filling (4.5 oz.) 520 31
Sat Fat Total Sugars
Cereals (grams) (grams)
(see March 1999 NAH for a
more-complete listing)
Kellogg's Frosted Flakes
(3/4 cup--1 oz.) 0 14
Kellogg's Complete Wheat Bran Flakes
(3/4 cup--1 oz.) 0 5
Oatmeal, plain (1 cup cooked--8.5 oz.) 0 0
Muffins (one muffin)
Dunkin' Donuts Lowfat Blueberry
(3.5 oz.) 0 33
McDonald's Lowfat Apple Bran (4 oz.) 1 32
Au Bon Pain Low Fat Triple Berry (4 oz.) 1(*) 30
Entenmann's Blueberry (2.5 oz.) 2 19
Dunkin' Donuts Bran or Honey Raisin
Bran (4 oz.) 3(*) 33
Dunkin' Donuts Corn (3.5 oz.) 3(*) 20
Dunkin' Donuts Blueberry (3.5 oz.) 4(*) 26
Au Bon Pain Blueberry (4.5 oz.) 4(*) 36
Au Bon Pain Carrot Pecan (5 oz.) 5 34
Au Bon Pain Chocolate Chip (4.5 oz.) 7 34
Pastries, etc. (one, unless
otherwise noted)
Kellogg's Nutri-Grain Cereal Bars,
Strawberry (1.5 oz.) 1 13
Kellogg's Low Fat Frosted Strawberry
Pop-Tarts (2 oz.) 1 20
Pillsbury Cinnamon Rolls (1.5 oz.) 2 10
Pillsbury Grands Cinnamon Rolls (3.5 oz.) 3 22
Entenmann's Crumb Coffee Cake
(1/10--2 oz.) 3 13
Dunkin' Donuts Boston Kreme Donut (yeast)
(3.5 oz.) 4(*) 21
Dunkin' Donuts Glazed Donut
(yeast) (2 oz.) 6(*) 7
Dunkin' Donuts Chocolate-FroSted Donut
(yeast) (2 oz.) 7 15
Dunkin' Donuts Jelly Filled Donut
(yeast) (3 oz.) 7(*) 20
Au Bon Pain Plain Croissant (2 oz.) 9 5
Burger King Cini-minis with Icing
(4.5 oz.) 9(*) 38
Dunkin' Donuts Chocolate Cake Glazed Donut
(2.5 oz.) 12(*) 13
Cinnabon Caramel Pecanbon (8 oz.) 13(*) 48
Starbucks Cinnamon Scone (5 oz.) 16(*) 15
Au Bon Pain Almond Croissant (5 oz.) 18(*) 23
Au Bon Pain Danish with Sweet Cheese
Filling (4.5 oz.) 23(*) 23
(*) includes artery-clogging trans fat. (#) Contains at least 100 mg of cholesterol. Source: Manufacturers, USDA USDA, n.pr See United States Department of Agriculture. , and Nutrition Action Healthletter restaurant studies. Chart compiled by Ingrid VanTuinen.3 |
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