13 Popular Restaurant Orders With More Sugar Than 4 Donuts

Eatthis ^ | 11/13/2024 | Samantha Boesch

[ChicagoConservative27]

One of the pitfalls of eating out at a restaurant is that it feels nearly impossible to know exactly what you're getting when you order a dish. You may order a meal thinking it sounds healthy, but what you don't know is that it may be loaded with thousands of milligrams of sodium in order to pump up the flavor. Another common ingredient sneaking around in your favorite meals is sugar—and you may be shocked to learn just how much is in some of the highest-sugar restaurant meals at popular restaurant chains.

[ChicagoConservative27]

The list,

1. BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse Baby Back Pork Ribs, Full Rack with Peppered BBQ Sauce

2. Applebee's Four Cheese Mac & Cheese with Honey Pepper Chicken Tenders

3. Cheesecake Factory Barbeque Chicken Ranch Salad

4. Buffalo Wild Wings Asian Zing Sauce

5. Cheesecake Factory Famous Factory Meatloaf

6. The Cheesecake Factory Sheila's Chicken and Avocado Salad

7. Longhorn Steakhouse Grilled Chicken & Strawberry Salad with Vinaigrette

8. P.F. Chang's Teriyaki Beef

9. Applebee's Oriental Grilled Chicken Salad

10. Chili's Honey Chipotle Chicken Crispers

11. TGI Fridays Signature Whiskey-Glazed Burger

12. Cheesecake Factory Orange Chicken

13. BJ's Bone-In Wings with Peppered BBQ Sauce

[Leaning Right]

Thanks for posting - it’s a good article for those of us who have to watch our sugar intake.

Some of the foods listed were surprising. From now on, I’ll be checking nutrition info on the internet before making my selections.

[ChicagoConservative27]

You’re welcome friend

[Larry Lucido]

Six donuts from Dunkin’ Donuts.

[Aria]

WOW...even meatloaf...and a grilled chicken & strawberry salad. I would have never guessed.

[monkeyshine]

Cheesecake Factory must get a sugar subsidy

[laplata]

Thanks for posting this...and all your other good posts.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Happy to say that I have never eaten any of those dishes. In fact, the only one of those chains that I’ve ever entered was P. F. Chang’s, once, and that was enough.

Do I worry about eating healthily? No, not really, and especially not in restaurants. It’s just that there are so many places that are better than pretty much any chain.

[mass55th]

Other than Applebee’s, none of those other places are anywhere near me, and I don’t eat at Applebee’s either. In fact, I don’t eat out very often to begin with. It’s far too expensive now. Fast food restaurants are too expensive as well, for mediocre burgers and horrible fries.

[ChicagoConservative27]

That made my day. Thanks.

[LegendHasIt]

Darn! I don’t have any of those places within 150 miles from me, although come to think of it I think there may be an Applebees or Chilli’s about 75 miles away.

[Veto!]

Good info. My dad had a chain of restaurants . I grew up eating great food and getting good advice. He said many times, “Buy the best food you can afford and do as little as possible to it.”

We don’t go to any of the places on this list. . And just a few local restaurants.. The one with the most salt is Chef Liu, and we only go there a few times a year. A tiny Thai restaurant we can walk to has A+ food, unlike huge and yucky Thai Bamboo place a block away. Best restaurant in the hood is Twigs, delish food worth high prices. I don’t know whether they have places in other towns. If they do, try it, you may like it.

[OriginalChristian]

Thanks very much. As a newly diagnosed T2 diabetic in 2012. I learned in my first exposure to a diabetic nutritionist that the sauces used in restaurants and commercially packaged for stores are where most of the sugar exists.
Thanks again God love you…

[BobL]

If you want to know exactly what’s in the food and the nutrition, then eat at McDonald’s, or eat at home. Going to a ‘nice place’ leaves you totally vulnerable to whatever crap they put in their food and however they choose to cook it.

[Svartalfiar]

but what you don't know is that it may be loaded with thousands of milligrams of sodium in order to pump up the flavor.

...So, a gram or two of salt..

[PeterPrinciple]

but what you don’t know is that it may be loaded with thousands of milligrams of sodium in order to pump up the flavor.

...So, a gram or two of salt..

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My mother was a cook at the retirement home. She was the favorite cook, she put a little salt in the food.

[Flaming Conservative]

I don’t put more than a teaspoon of sugar in any of those things, usually none at all. Now, if they’re counting fruit sugars that occur naturally, I guess that would hike the sugar content some, as would bbq sauce.

[SamAdams76]

I'm living mostly a carnivore life but my wife is a Cheesecake Factory fanatic. I hate the place but I go there for her. The menu is something like 16 pages long!

Anyway, I realized at one point that they have omelettes on the menu. So now when I go there with her, I order the bacon, mushroom and cheese omelette. She rolls her eyes but I'm happy as I'm able to stick to my carnivore routine.

[FlingWingFlyer]

It’s good we have idiots in this country who worry about these things. Sure beats working.

[laplata]

You’re very welcome. Well deserved.