ALANNA'S WHOLE FOODS SALAD BAR LUNCH

Posted by Alanna Fincke

Here's what I had for lunch today:

• Salad from Whole Foods Market
  
• Orange

Grade: A-

I decided to hit up the salad bar at Whole Foods Market for lunch today. I figured that I would be able to better control the vegetable intake than when I order a take-out salad from a restaurant. The beans on the salad provide a great source of fiber, protein, and vitamins. You can never eat too many of these legumes! I went on a veggie spree, too—lots of spinach, red peppers, broccoli, carrots, snap peas, sweet potato. Kudos to me. But what’s missing: salad dressing. This may be surprising to some of you, but certain nutrients need fat for the body to properly utilize them. A drizzle of olive oil would’ve actually helped this salad. One saving grace was that the beans were dressed, and that counts for something. Of course, the orange is great—vitamin C, fiber, etc. The minus trailing behind my A mark directly correlates with the tofu. While this soybean curd topping is a great source of protein, it's clearly deep-fried in who-knows-what kind of oil. With a tad more restraint, my salad bar outing could have resulted in a perfect score!

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Comments

[Linda Gail]

Alanna:)
Great lunch. It looks great and I bet it tasted as good as it looks. I haven't been to the salad bar lately, but I've got to go because I can see I'm missing a lot of good stuff.
Linda Gail

[Adam]

Sounds great. I say it should be a solid A, even with the fried tofu. It's from Whole Foods, so thanks to their quality standards the frying oil was definitely a healthy one.