About 70 percent of breakfast meals served in fast-food and coffee chains contain too much fat and not enough vegetables and fruit, according to a recent study conducted by a local health magazine.
The Common Health Magazine said it analyzed a total of 104 breakfast dishes from nine popular restaurant chains for their nutritional content to help consumers choose healthier food.
The nine restaurants were McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Burger King, Mos Burger, Starbucks, Ikari Coffee, Dante, Mr Brown and IS Coffee.
The study showed that a majority of the breakfast sets from these restaurants had a fat content that exceeded 30 percent of the meal’s total calories, the recommended limit, said Su Hsiu-yueh (蘇秀悅), a nutritionist from Taipei Medical University Hospital. This means more than 30 percent of the calories in these dishes were from fat.
Su reminded consumers that the average calorie intake for an adult male is 2,000 per day and 1,500 per day for women. Therefore, breakfast should not exceed 600 calories and for breakfast, calories from fat should not exceed 180.
Wu Ying-rong (吳映蓉), the chief executive of the Nutrition Foundation of Taiwan, blamed the use of fried and processed meat, as well as thick layers of sauces such as mayonnaise, for the high fat content in the breakfast dishes.
“It is a great challenge for everyone to eat healthily when we constantly come across unhealthy food,” Wu said.
She suggested consumers go for natural meat products and take the initiative to ask for customized, sauce-free meals with extra vegetables.
With regard to coffee chains, Wu acknowledged that getting accurate nutritional information can be difficult, since most chains only provide nutrition statistics for their products on the Internet, making it hard for consumers to calculate the amount of calories they eat.
The study, held from March 1 through March 15, was conducted by three nutritionists from local universities.
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