If you think ordering fish is a healthy fast food menu option, you may be surprised to learn about the very unhealthy attributes of fast food fish.
Fast food fish options range from a square of fish on a bun with a small piece of melted cheese on top to two or three crunchy fish filets on a plate with side dishes such as Cole slaw and hush puppies. The fish option is a selection that people across the country make every day, likely assuming that fast food fish is a much healthier choice than a burger and fries.
Individuals read and hear medical professionals and nutritionists tout the health benefits of eating fish, which potentially leads to many individuals choosing to order fish off the fast food menu.
Are you really making a better choice when you choose a fish option off the fast food restaurant menu? Does ordering the fish give you the satisfaction that you made the best and healthiest choice at the fast food establishment‘s menu?
The Reality Of Fast Food Fish
Fish sandwiches are no more a healthy option at fast food restaurants than are burgers with cheese and special sauce. In fact, in many cases the fish is even unhealthier than ordering a hamburger.
To demonstrate the extremely unhealthy qualities of fast food fish, consider the fact that when Diets in Review set out to organize a list of healthy restaurant fish sandwiches, they could not find any fish sandwiches meeting the standards of being healthy. Even without adding the tartar sauce, special sauce or fast food mayo, fast food fish sandwiches remained an unhealthy fast food menu choice.
The University of California at Berkeley discusses fried fish in Berkeley Wellness, advising readers that results of a study from the journal Circulation: Heart Failure determined that eating fried fish just once a week is associated with a 48 percent increased risk of heart failure.
What Makes Fast Food Fish Unhealthy?
One reason fast food fish is unhealthy is the type of fish used in fast food establishments. Cod, Pollock, whitefish or catfish have lower Omega-3s than healthier varieties of fish. Additionally, fast food restaurants typically fry their fish in unhealthy oils containing unhealthy fats.
Do you know that the oil used to fry your fast food fish is old oil likely used repeatedly, perhaps to even cook other fast food menu items? You run the risk of ingesting harmful compounds that occur when oils used for frying fast food fish are heated to very high heat and used repeatedly. These oils also potentially cancel out whatever small levels of Omega-3s there are in the types of fish used in fast food fish menu options.
Another major culprit is the breading used for fast food fish. The breading contains a batter with unhealthy carbohydrates and unhealthy fats. Do you ever get your fast food fish on a whole grain bread or bun? No. You receive your fast food fish on a thick bun made of white flour, adding calories and carbs to the already unhealthy deep-fried fish.
Before presenting you with your fast food fish that you erroneously assumed was a healthy choice, employees slather on high calorie, high fat tartar sauce, special sauce or any number of other artery-clogging toppings.
Consider this revelation on fast food fish. PRN Nurses found it so unhealthy that they asked nurses to consider the fact that they found no fast food fish sandwiches less than 500 calories and none with less than 500 milligrams of sodium.
Think about that the next time you are choosing what to eat from a fast food menu.
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