The unhealthiest item from the snack bar

Say wine, snacks or haute cuisine and the gourmands at online food magazine FavorFlav know where to drink, how to eat it and what to cook. This time our cheffies serve you: The unhealthiest item from the snack bar.

Admittedly, the chance is quite small that you are concerned with healthy choices when you go to eat at the snack bar; otherwise, you would get a salad somewhere. But there is really a big difference in the various types of snacks at the snack bar when it comes to calories and the amount of fat.

To be honest, I wasn't really aware of that: of course, I have read that a croquette sandwich is healthier than a cheese sandwich (when looking at the number of calories), but in my mind, all fried snacks are just equally unhealthy. Or rather unhealthy, I should say.

So I was a bit mistaken... De Gelderlander actually investigated which snacks you should better order and which you should not if you want to be a bit healthy at the snack bar.

This item is by far the unhealthiest
And that dubious honor goes to... The mexicano. And it really stands alone at the top, there in that first place. Not only is one mexicano already 390 calories (I was a bit shocked by that), it also contains 7.3 grams of salt (the daily amount is 6 grams of salt). Hoooly shit, that's not very good. ‘Fortunately,’ I never order that, but if I ever have that craving, I think I will think a bit longer about it with this knowledge. I put the word ‘fortunately’ in quotation marks because if this is your favorite snack, you should definitely keep ordering it if you want.

But if you are extremely put off by this info and really want to go on the healthy snack bar tour: order a chicken satay. This is not fried and is therefore already a lot healthier and lower in calories. There is just one catch: you have to order it without satay sauce. Is such a satay stick still tasty? I wonder.

Order your snack with this sauce
I really love sauces and preferably drown my snacks in them, especially satay sauce. Conveniently, because that is actually really unhealthy. So if you want to implement this healthy way of snacking in your sauces, then order ketchup. It contains no fat and is also relatively low in calories. For comparison: a tablespoon of mayonnaise contains about 130 calories, a tablespoon of ketchup 13. That's quite a difference.

But does this mean we should now all massively go for chicken satay with ketchup? I hope not, because that sounds extremely unpleasant.