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Meals identified as healthy choices on restaurant menus are healthy

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, March 7th, 2005

Meals identified as healthy choices on restaurant menus are healthy.

"This study evaluated the accuracy of restaurant entrees identified as healthy choices on menus at two fast food restaurant chains. Entrees were purchased at two different locations of each restaurant 35 days apart. Samples were processed in duplicate for total fat contents, sodium analysis, and adiabatic bomb calorimeter for total energy," scientists writing in the International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition report.

"The t-tests compared the mean experimental values to claimed values for fat, energy, and sodium, nutritional content at different locations for the...

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