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Popular Fast Food Chains Commit to Healthier Kid’s Meals

Finally some good news to report about the fast food and restaurant industry! Nineteen restaurant chains have committed to making their kid meal options healthier. In a new era where one in three children are obese and where eating out is more of a norm verses a special indulgence, this is wonderful news.

The initiative is called “Kids Live Well”, and this voluntary action has select restaurants committing to reduce the calories and improve the nutritional value of the meals they advertise to children. The meals will now be comprised of increased fruit and vegetable offerings, a lean protein, whole grains, and a low fat dairy product. All participants have agreed to make certain all meals are 600 calories or less.

Burger King is one of the restaurants involved in the movement. They may be the shining star of the group as they have made a decision to make apples and milk or juice the default choices for their kid’s meals. While fries and soda will still be available, they will have to be requested. Studies have shown that menu items set as the default options are what the consumers primarily stick with.

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Posted on July 20, 2023 by Lacy

Fast Food Chains Adding Alcohol to Their Menus

“I’d like a double cheeseburger, the jumbo fries, and a DIET soda.” Does this fast food order sound familiar? The patron stressing the diet soda to lighten some part of the gut busting meal is a pretty common occurrence. Now, we might start hearing something like, “…and a LIGHT beer” tacked on to a fast food order. Alcohol is now being served at fast food chains around the U.S.

Very popular chains like Burger King, Sonic, and even Starbucks have begun introducing alcoholic menu concepts at select locations. The controversial change could be a result of the economy, as many say alcohol will allow them to compete with the casual dinning restaurants in the evening. While that fact may be true as adults may want to eat somewhere that has an alcohol option on the menu, that addition to fast food menus could cause more harm than reward.

Thankfully none of these restaurants allow for alcohol to be ordered from a drive-thru or car stall, but there are still some possible hazards. The risk of getting a quick meal and a quick beer and then driving off pose obvious dangers. However, assuming that adults are responsible enough to gauge what’s appropriate consumption, what about the health factor?

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Posted on July 7, 2023 by Lacy

Burger King Japan Launches New Diet Disaster

Burger King's Meat Monster HamburgerFast-Food chain Burger King is continuing the trend of launching ultra-fatty sandwiches in Japan with a new burger. First, McDonald’s launched its “Big America” campaign, which features a collection of burgers (yes, a collection–there are at least four of them) named for American locations and are loaded with a barrage of high-calorie items, from chips to chili. Now, Burger King has launched the Meat Monster burger.

As part of the “Have It Your Way” promotion, the Meat Monster is based on the All Heavy, a burger that has about one and a half times the amount of toppings as a regular Whopper. The Meat Monster then has two slices of cheese, three strips of bacon, an extra 3.3 ounce beef patty and a Tendergrill chicken patty. The burger sells for 820 yen, the equivalent of $9.70. Using the equivalent U.S. ingredients, The Consumerist estimates that the sandwich has 1160 calories, while SeriousEats used Burger King’s online meal builder to get an estimated value of 1310 calories.

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Posted on April 15, 2024 by Margaret

Healthiest Menu Choices at Burger King

We wanted to see what the best menu items were at a popular fast-food restaurant: Burger King. After some digging, we came up with the below choices that are all selected based on feedback from registered dietitian Rebecca Scritchfield. All meals have less than 500 calories and about 500 milligrams of sodium, as part of the new daily sodium recommendations from the U.S. government. Because all fast food is generally high in salt, it was really difficult to find meals that fell into these guidelines at Burger King, and what we did find, unfortunately, wasn’t all that exciting.

Healthiest Meals at Burger King

1. Hamburger. With 340 calories and 520 milligrams of sodium, this is the lowest-sodium option for a sandwich. Our recommendation for rounding out this meal? Bring some raw cut-up veggies from home or pick up a piece of fruit to help fill you up and keep you energized.

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Posted on February 10, 2024 by Jennipher

Burger King Stuffs More Fat into Steakhouse Burger

Burger king sandwichHow do pump more fat into a beef patty? Burger King responds: inject chunks of cheese. Their latest novelty food item is the BK Stuffed Steakhouse burger, which has the cheese pre-loaded into the meat patty, along with some jalapeños. The burger is “topped off with creamy poblano sauce,” according to the company’s press release. We’ll assume that “creamy” means mayo-based or something equivalently fatty. The burger is also served with lettuce and tomato.

Using the “limited time only” McRib-style strategy to hype the new burger, the “premium” sandwich will sell for $3.99. Of course, Burger King has not allowed the publication of nutrition info to mar the announcement of the sandwich, so we will be left to guesstimate its caloric content.

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Posted on January 13, 2024 by Margaret

Burger King’s Caloric Nightmare: NY Pizza Burger

Burger King has done it again. The home of the Whopper and the Steakhouse XT, Burger King has recently unveiled a new Whopper Bar in New York’s Times Square. The Whopper Bar is a place where customers can create a Whopper to their specifications, or choosing from such offerings as the Bourbon Whopper, topped with fried onion rings and the Meat Beast, topped with bacon and pepperoni.

Now they’ve managed to even surpass those calorie bombs with their newest offering, the NY Pizza Burger. (more…)

Posted on August 26, 2023 by Carmen

Don’t Start Your Kids’ Day with Breakfast Kids’ Meals at Burger King

You’ve been able to buy breakfast for the entire family at Burger King for years. Now they’re going to start packaging it differently to make it even more appealing to children. 

Starting Monday, July 26, Burger Kids’ Meal Breakfasts will be available for $3.38. Kids can nosh on their new egg-and-cheese English muffin, apple fries (apples sliced to resemble fries and served with caramel dipping sauce) and apple juice. Burger King boasts that this meal has less than 560 calories.

Do you need two apple products? Shouldn’t kids like an apple for what it is, and not tricked by “resembling” a French fry?

Well for $4 you could scramble an egg with whole grain toast, skim milk and a small apple at home for less than 400 calories. (more…)

Posted on July 23, 2023 by Natalie K