By Tarunkumar Singhal, Raman Jokhakar, Chartered Accountants
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The Sunita Narain-headed Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), a non-profit organisation, has analysed fast food, checking for fats, carbs, salt and trans-fat. The results are as follows:
Fried potato chips
It has around 33% fats. A standard-sized packet of chips (65-75gm) meets half of your daily fats quota. Unlike in a balanced diet, where 30% calories should come from fats, 50-60% of calories come from fats in chips.
Indian snacks
If you are fond of bhujia with tea, you get high doses of salt and trans-fats, along with a high amount of calories.
Instant noodles
This tasty meal comes with high salt, empty calories. A packet of noodles has around 3 gm of salt; recommended intake is 6 gm per day.
French fries
Fries are laden with fats: 20% of its weight is fats, 1.6% of its weight is trans-fats. By eating a large serving (220 gm), one exceeds the safe limit for trans-fats. Burgers 35% of calories in a veg burger come from fats. In non-veg burgers, 47% calories are from fats.
Carbonated drinks
The 300 ml serving that one drinks with fast food has enough sugar (over 40 gm) to exceed one’s daily sugar quota of 20 gm. After this, forget the cup of tea, one should not even eat fruits.
Fried chicken
A two-piece fried chicken has nearly 60 gm of fats, which is recommended for the whole day. Pizza By far, basic pizzas were found to be healthy compared to other fast foods. They have low levels of salt and fats; levels of trans-fats were also low.
