As of: March 18, 2024, 1:17 p.m
By: Sarah Isele
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Fast food has a reputation for being particularly convenient when traveling, but also quite unhealthy.
What's the truth about the fast food myth?
And what is the healthiest fast food?
As a child, it was often the highlight of a long trip – stopping at McDonald's.
Fast food is really practical when traveling, in stressful everyday life or when you just don't feel like cooking yourself.
Whether it's a burger, currywurst, fries, pizza or kebab, sometimes we crave greasy food.
Fast food does not contribute to a healthy diet and, if consumed regularly, your pants will quickly become smaller.
Fast food is also healthy.
What is the healthiest fast food?
A look at the calorie counts of the respective dishes sometimes makes you cringe in shock.
However, with one dish you have less to worry about than with others.
Consisting of a carbohydrate-containing coating, the flatbread, and the contents - white cabbage, red cabbage, iceberg lettuce, tomato, cucumber, pepperoni, garlic and optionally chicken or falafel - the kebab is everything you need on your plate for a healthy lunch.
The nutrition expert Elisa Hausding says about the kebab: “This is what a main meal should always look like, that it fills you up with high-quality protein sources and fiber, not the fat.” A kebab that weighs around 350 grams still packs a good punch with 750 calories Beech, but thanks to the high proportion of salad and yoghurt sauce it provides valuable vitamins and protein.
By the way, Rewe and Edeka will soon actually have a baked kebab from the refrigerated section, as tz.de reports.
The healthiest fast food in the world
By fast food we mean quick meals that are intended for immediate consumption.
According to this definition, in addition to the classics already mentioned, burritos, sandwiches, chicken nuggets, confectionery and hot dogs also fall into this category.
Many of them are dripping with fat because they are fried, made from wheat flour or coated in thick breading.
Of course, that makes them anything but healthy on the nutritional scale.
Falafel is a healthy fast food alternative. 100 grams of the small, round balls from the Middle East have 333 calories, more than 100 grams of fries (312 calories), but in view of their nutrients they are significantly healthier than their potato counterparts. Friends.
The main ingredient of falafel balls is chickpeas, which are also used to make hummus, which is healthy for the body.
However, the kebab is and remains the healthiest fast food, because falafel contains an estimated 1,165.5 calories and provides fewer nutrients than filled flatbread.
The list of the healthiest fast food was compiled by HEIDELBERG24 after careful examination:
1st place: kebab
2nd place: Pizza Margherita
3rd place: Falafel
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What is the unhealthiest fast food?
A current representative study by CLARK and YouGov shows that one in ten Germans eats fast food every week (11 percent).
On average, one in three respondents only eats pizza, burgers, etc. once a month (35 percent).
A quarter of Germans don't eat fast food every week, but they do eat it more often than once a month (25 percent).
Fast food is a quick and pleasant, but unhealthy alternative to cooking yourself.
Incidentally, the absolute frontrunner when it comes to the unhealthiest fast food is a product from McDonald's.
With 1,042 kilocalories per serving, the Signature Avocado Chili-Cheese Burger is the highest-calorie product on the fast food market.
This is particularly surprising when you consider that an adult man should consume around 2,500 calories per day to maintain a healthy diet.
In addition, as is well known, when ordering, it is usually not just a burger; fries and a soft drink are also often included.
What is the lowest calorie fast food?
Interestingly, the lowest calorie fast food is also available at McDonald's.
What may come as a surprise to many: It's not a salad.
With 179 kilocalories, the 4-pack of chicken nuggets is one of the healthiest main meals in the fast food chain.
This means that one nugget only has 45 calories, which makes it even lower in calories than falafel (66 calories).
But which is healthier, kebab, pizza or fries?
If you extrapolate the number of calories in fries to the weight of pizza and kebab, the potato sticks have a significantly higher number of calories than their competitors (1,092 kcal).
The Italian classic, pizza, is much healthier.
A 350 gram Margherita pizza has 798 calories.
Depending on the topping, the number of calories can shoot up to 900 calories.
So the kebab remains the healthiest with its 750 calories.
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