McDonald's Premium McWraps-Good or Bad?

I have had many of you ask about these.  I am glad to see fast-food restaurants make an effort to provide healthier choices!  However, it's important to be informed on the nutritional pro's and con's.  You will see the calories displayed on the menu board, but depending on your personal health goals calories won't provide the complete picture.

• It's obvious but worth mentioning-always choose the wrap with grilled chicken NOT the fried version.  Sorry guys!  Just because it's a wrap doesn't make it healthy.  It's the same with a salad. If you are ordering a salad with fried chicken, FORGET IT!  Go ahead and get a small hamburger and fry.
• I've analyzed all three and the Sweet Chili variety is the healthiest overall.
• Calorie-controlled-only 360 calories-thumbs up!
• 9 grams of total fat and 2.5 grams of saturated fat-thumbs up!
• Cholesterol-65 mg-thumbs up!
• Fiber-not a good source of fiber with only 2 grams/wrap-come on McDonald's give us a whole-wheat wrap!
• Sodium-not a good choice for someone with high blood pressure and monitoring their sodium intake-one wrap provides a whopping 1030 mg.  If you are limited to 1500 mg sodium/day you have almost consumed your entire day's worth of sodium in one meal.

Overall Impression:  

Based on the New Nutripilot System we will be launching soon with our nutrition program, I would categorize this as a "Be Cautious" compass food.  Your goal is to consume no more than 3 "Be Cautious" compass foods/day and as many "Healthy" compass foods you can.  Limit your "Unhealthy" compass foods to 5/week.  So, if you are in a pinch and making healthy choices throughout your day, this is not a bad choice.

So long till my next blog! If you have more foods you would like me to write about, please send to melanie@healthylifeandnutrition.com.  Stay tuned for the following:

• Total website optimization with the compass color foods and food tags to help you select the healthiest foods anywhere (grocery-stores, restaurants, etc).
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• Native iphone app

Healthy Regards,

Melanie Rubery MS RDN LD CLT

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