The Unhealthiest Turkey Sandwiches At Chain Restaurants
To help you avoid these pitfalls in your favorite chain restaurant menus, we've compiled a list of the 10 unhealthiest turkey sandwiches. The following sandwiches are high in calories and contain staggering amounts of sodium, fat, and cholesterol.
Arby’s Roast Turkey Ranch & Bacon Sandwich
This sandwich features roasted turkey, peppercorn ranch sauce, cheddar cheese, and thick-cut bacon on honey wheat bread. With 2,250 mg of sodium, it contains almost an entire day's worth of salt. But sodium isn't the only nutrient to be wary of in this meal. The sandwich also contains 18 grams of sugar, most of which probably lie in the honey-flavored bread.
Blimpie’s Turkey Provolone Sub
This classic contains the basics: oven-roasted turkey, provolone, tomatoes, lettuce, onion, vinegar, oil, and oregano. But simplicity doesn't necessarily equate to clean eating. This sandwich contains 820 calories, 26 grams of fat, and 85 mg of cholesterol.
Cosi’s Turkey Stuffing Sandwich
With 1,724 mg of salt, this Thanksgiving inspired sandwich accounts for 72 percent of your daily sodium intake. Opt for an item containing less sodium, as excess amounts of salt lead to water retention. This can dramatically slow your weight loss progress.
Jersey Mike’s Chipotle Turkey Sub
If you'd rather not consume nearly half of your daily calories in one meal, steer clear of this sub. Featuring roasted turkey, lettuce, tomato, and chipotle mayonnaise, it has 840 calories. It also has 12 grams of saturated fat, which is known to raise the level of LDL, or "bad" cholesterol, in the blood.
Jimmy John’s Beach Club
Panera’s Bacon Turkey Bravo Sandwich on Tomato Basil Bread
Smoked foods tend to be high in salt. That explains why this sandwich, which features smoked turkey breast, applewood smoked bacon, and smoked Gouda cheese, contains a whopping 2,910 mg of sodium. That's 510 mg over the daily-recommended amount!
Panera’s Sierra Turkey Sandwich on Asiago Cheese Focaccia
At 730 calories and 27 grams of fat, this is hardly a "light" lunch option. Smoked turkey breast, field greens, red onions, and chipotle mayonnaise have this sandwich weighing in at 41 percent of your daily fat intake.
Potbelly’s Turkey BLT
When the nutrition label tells you an item contains 2,066 milligrams of salt, or 119 percent of your daily sodium intake, you can be sure it's not a healthy option. This medley of turkey, lettuce, and tomato also contains 92 milligrams of cholesterol, or 31 percent of your daily intake.
Quizno’s Turkey Bacon Guacamole Sandwich on Ciabatta
Subway’s Turkey Italiano Melt
If you're watching your fat intake, it's wise to stay away from this sandwich. Out of the 510 calories in the Turkey Italiano Melt, 230 come directly from fat, nine grams of which are unhealthy saturated fats.