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Taste Test Tuesday: McDonald's Chicken Wrap
Today I took a rare turn and drove through the golden arches to get my 13-year old daughter an after school snack. When I spoke into the metal box, asking for a chicken snack wrap without ranch sauce, to my surprise the box asked, "grilled or crispy?" Wow! I thought, they have a "grilled" option now? I made the quick executive decision and ordered one of each so that my daughter could participate in an impromptu taste test. (She was a very willing participant by the way; like mother, like daughter.)
On her own, she tried the grilled chicken wrap first and really liked it (I would have rigged it that way anyway so that the grilled wouldn't follow the seemingly more desirable crispy chicken wrap). Then she tried the crispy chicken wrap. She then said, don't you want to know which one I like best? (I was trying not to rush the taste test experience). She said she liked the grilled better because the chicken had more flavor (they added some seasoning to the chicken which includes flavors from salt, sugar, garlic powder, paprika, chicken fat, chicken broth, and onion powder.) She did admit though that the texture combination of the crispy wrap was nice.
First chance I got, I looked up the calorie and fat gram savings with the grilled wrap and here it is:
You save 70 calories and 6 grams fat, and 1 gram saturated fat per wrap.
A grilled wrap (without ranch sauce) contains:
240 calories, 8 grams fat, 3.5 grams saturated fat, 45 mg cholesterol, 760 milligrams sodium, 18 grams protein.
NOTE: If you go for the ranch sauce it adds 25 calories, 2 grams of fat and 65 milligrams of sodium.
~~Elaine
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On her own, she tried the grilled chicken wrap first and really liked it (I would have rigged it that way anyway so that the grilled wouldn't follow the seemingly more desirable crispy chicken wrap). Then she tried the crispy chicken wrap. She then said, don't you want to know which one I like best? (I was trying not to rush the taste test experience). She said she liked the grilled better because the chicken had more flavor (they added some seasoning to the chicken which includes flavors from salt, sugar, garlic powder, paprika, chicken fat, chicken broth, and onion powder.) She did admit though that the texture combination of the crispy wrap was nice.
First chance I got, I looked up the calorie and fat gram savings with the grilled wrap and here it is:
You save 70 calories and 6 grams fat, and 1 gram saturated fat per wrap.
A grilled wrap (without ranch sauce) contains:
240 calories, 8 grams fat, 3.5 grams saturated fat, 45 mg cholesterol, 760 milligrams sodium, 18 grams protein.
NOTE: If you go for the ranch sauce it adds 25 calories, 2 grams of fat and 65 milligrams of sodium.
~~Elaine
Related Topics: Video: Fast Food Survival, Our Favorite After School Snacks
Technorati Tags: mcdonalds, snackwrap, wrap, chicken, grilledchicken, chickenwrap
2 Comments:
Those sound good, but we don't go to McD's much anymore since the kids don't like burgers.
I love your blog, Elaine.
Please tell us about trans fat free crisco. Is it any better? For cake decorating, I need an icing with shortening.
Thanks,
Kel
McDonald's grilled wraps are fantastic, and along with their yogurt parfaits can be a non-insubstantial part of a healthy diet.
The way to go with those chicken wraps is to get the honeymustard grilled wrap, *without* cheese. The honeymustard sauce (or bbq) is fatfree, and nixing the cheese saves on unnecessary fat.
The upshot: just 6g fat, 220 calories, and a full 16g of protein. Not too bad for so-called "fast food"!!
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