The sliced turkey and ham may not have been frozen like hockey pucks before they serve it to you, but it's loaded down with artificial ingredients -- bulking agents, fillers, processing aids, preservatives and the like. Let's start with the bread, which is baked in the stores, emitting a distinct and lingering odor even outside. The 9-grain wheat, white and sourdough varieties are made with goodies like sodium stearoyl lactylate and ammonium sulfate, which are used as a dough conditioners, and azodicarbonamide , a bleaching chemical most commonly employed in the production of foamed plastics.
In the UK, azodicarbonamide has been classified as a substance that can cause asthma when used in an industrial setting. Then there's the meat. However, the things that are added to a salad may cause the calories to rise significantly. Few people eat a salad without some kind of dressing on it.
Dressings are a source of added sugars that increase the caloric content. Some Subway patrons like to add crispy chicken, bacon strips, grilled salmon, or other items to make eating a salad more like having a full meal.
In terms of calories, a salad can be just as high as a hamburger. For example, the Subway Crispy Chicken and Bacon salad has 15 grams of fat and calories. Compare this to a cheeseburger that has only 12 grams of fat and calories and it becomes obvious that eating salads is not as good of a low-calorie choice as thought by most people. It has grams of fat and calories.
This is just slightly less than the fat and calories found in a barbecue ranch burger. When comparing the nutritional values for the Subway salad menu with the nutritional values for the Subway sandwiches, it is surprising to see how many calories are in the salads. Via YouTube. Jared Fogle was very obese, weighing over pounds. He started a diet of eating Subway sandwiches with no condiments or cheese added and lost over pounds during one year.
The theme of eating the delicious Subway sandwiches and being able to lose weight at the same time resonated with many consumers.
Jared continued to lose weight and this made the television commercials have even more impact. They showed Jared losing more and more weight as time went by. The sales of Subway sandwiches soared and so did the opening of Subway franchise stores all over the world. A new Subway opens now at the rate of two stores per day. Even though the public may believe Subway sandwiches are a healthier choice, the truth is not all Subway food is healthy.
There are plenty of questionable additives used in the processing of the deli meats that Subway uses for its sandwiches. Subway has been challenged by consumer action groups for certain potentially harmful additives, such as azodicarbonamide found in the Subway food.
However, it still has not gotten rid of all of the other questionable additives. Via Business Insider. Not anymore.
Currently, Subway has over 43, locations in over countries. Meanwhile, Subway continues to grow. Subway achieved this stellar growth by opening, on average, two stores per day for decades. All of the Subway restaurants are franchises. Via NYC. Consumers mistakenly think they get more value by ordering a larger size. What they are actually getting is too many calories and way too much sugar, especially if they order regular soft drinks. If the Subway shop offers free drink refills, and many do, the amount of sugar consumed by patrons from drinking regular soft drinks is mind boggling.
A regular size drink used to be seven ounces. Now, a soft drink can be as much as 32 ounces. During this same period, while soft drink serving sizes quadrupled, there has been an exponential rise in obesity, heart disease, and diabetes, even among children. Via Independent. Besides the increase in obesity and diseases attributed to excessive consumption of sugar from drinking regular soft drinks, there is another serious health risk.
This risk comes from the bacteria. Bacteria grow quickly in environments that are full of sugar and exposed to the air. The drink spills on the self-serve soda machines create the perfect place for bacteria to grow.
It used to be that most bacteria found on surfaces in fast food restaurants were relatively harmless. This is not true anymore. Virulent strains of antibiotic resistant E-coli are getting more prevalent. These bacteria create a type of food poisoning that makes people really sick and some can die from the illness. During , the American television show of Dr. Oz reported that the self-service soda machine was the dirtiest place in fast food restaurants, even dirtier than the toilets.
If a consumer only knew that is might be safer to drink the water from the toilets than to drink soda from a self-service machine; this unhealthy trend could be reversed. This is not only a problem in Subway shops but with all restaurants that have these self-service soda machines. Via fieldstotalcleaning. Subway restaurants have a rigorous cleaning protocol that is performed at the beginning of each day in the morning when a shop first opens.
It has historically been a common practice among fast food restaurants to use preservatives and additives in their food, and Subway is no different. But few such eateries advertised their food as "fresh," which makes Subway's actions a little more devious. In addition to the yoga mat chemical , some Subway breads had tasty ingredients such as sodium stearoyl lactylate and ammonium sulfate, both used to help condition the dough.
The restaurant's protein wasn't any better, containing artificial flavor enhancers such as autolyzed yeast extract, hyrolyzed corn gluten, and hydrolyzed soy protein. CBS News once described Subway's meat as, "a processed concoction of actual meat and lots of water that's held together by things like modified food starch and soy protein concentrate, and then goosed with artificial flavorings.
Those looking at Subway as a healthier quick-serve option will be happy to know the restaurant has said goodbye to these artificial ingredients. In an attempt to get closer to its "Eat Fresh" slogan, Subway announced in that it would be removing all artificial colors, flavors, and preservatives from its menu by Most fast food restaurant goers likely know the food they're eating isn't the freshest and may have things like additives and preservatives.
But most probably also assume that the food they're eating is, in fact, the food they ordered. In , a Canadian news program claimed that if you're eating Subway's chicken, that assumption is wrong. Not so much for Subway. The sandwich outlet's chicken was found to be only half chicken — oven roasted chicken contained What did the rest of this hybrid meat consist of?
For its part, Subway strongly denied that accusation , going as far as sending the chicken to two different independent labs, which found the samples to have less than one percent soy.
They may differ slightly depending on the type you're making, but the main ingredients of bread are pretty simple and familiar: flour, water, and yeast.
So when you come across an unpronounceable ingredient name like azodicarbonamide, there is probably cause for concern. And yet not long ago, that chemical was found in Subway's bread. In , food blogger Vani Hari publicly chided Subway and demanded they remove the chemical, which can also be found in, of all things, yoga mats and shoe soles.
In bread, it is used to strengthen dough. In Subway's defense, it's a common commercial bread ingredient that was also used at other restaurants including McDonald's, Starbucks, and Arby's. That didn't stop Hari from starting a petition to get the chain to remove the ingredient from its bread, which quickly gained more than 65, signatures. Hari pointed out that Subway did not use the chemical in its European and Australian stores likely because the substance is banned there.
In the same week the petition launched, Subway announced it would be removing the ingredient from its bread , a process it said had begun prior to public lambasting. We should complete the entire conversion process within the coming weeks.
Not only is the quality of food at Subway not what you think, the quantity has come up short as well. In , two men from New Jersey sued the restaurant , claiming that Subway's signature item, the Footlong sandwich, was just 11 inches long.
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