America's Top 5 Healthiest Fast Food Restaurants

Want fast food? Eat at home. Cheaper, healthier, and VERY FAST! Or...there's always roadkill. :D)

For once I'd like to find an article like this with restaurants that are ACTUALLY accessable to me. Fat lot of good this info does for me in my part of Louisiana...

Wouldn't step a foot in Subway doors after them nominating Michael Vick (dog murderer, psychopath, #1 looser in history) for sportman of the year...what a joke!!! The only one I have ever heard of on here is Panera Bread their food is wonderful, prices are reasonable....like someone said earlier the calories and the sodium levels are off the charts!!!

Mc Donald's I would not go there for any reason. Did you forget Subway, some of them now have drive thru.

i am very careful on what i put into this mouth of mine. i am diabetic and i chose to make my own food. eating out is very complicated, so i chose buffet because you choose your own food/ god creates every thing but not all is permissable to your body!

One factor left out of all this is the pleasure of drive through services. When one is disabled but still able to drive, this is factor often heads the list!

Few of the really top ones have drive-thru capacity and thereby make it next to impossible for many of us to use.

I love Chipotle. You have to get out of your car, but they are set up to be very quick. They're organic, including the meat. They must cut all the fat off their meat before they cook it because it doesn't taste greasy and I never find a glob of fat, not even a small one, in the middle of a bite of their carneros. Everything is just very fresh, spicy and yummy.

It would have been nice to feature more restaurants that have a wider, nationwide presence. The only one of these that I've ever even seen in the area is Panera. I appreciate the effort, but it seems like this list is good for everyone but someone living on the East Coast.

The writer must have been on crack when this article was written. Next time you choose to address "healthy" choices, actually do some research on the hazards of sodium levels, etc. and then decide whether you wish to produce an article such as this.

Here's another 2 minuntes that I will never get back...

Even though some of the ingredients are healthy, all I see on this list is high sodium and high calories! Even the Swiss oatmeal is high calories although each ingredient sounds healthy.

This looks like this article was cooked up by McDonald's corporate PR folks. McD's owns 3 of the 10 top restaurants in this list (McD's, Panera and Chipotle) all three of which are stuffed full of food high in calories, fat, sodium and sugar. The rest of the list is comprised of much smaller, regional chains that most people reading the article can't dine at even if they were truly healthy choices. Calling them healthy and comparing them to McD's, Panera and Chipotle makes these McD's restaurants look good in comparison. As pointed out by many readers many of these restaurants are NOT fast food and starting with #1 Panera, NOT healthy choices.

Most notably the list leaves out true NATIONAL competitors of McD's with healthier offerings such as Subway.

BEWARE the so called experts who have been bought and paid for surreptitiously by the savvy large corporate PR people to do their bidding lest you be lead astray like sheep and sheared for their profit.

have you seen the calorie counts for panera's dishes? they're deceptive and it's frankly horrifying lol. though anywhere you can make an intelligent choice, the ones around me have actually been displaying the caloric content of each dish on their menu board, which i appreciate.

To the people who cant read this the what it says at the top when you come to the page~~America's Top 5 Healthiest Fast Food Restaurants~~ there only showing you the top 5 on this page, ok? then if you want the other look at the bottom of the article ~~Read the rest: Health.com: America's Top 10 Healthiest Fast Food Restaurants~~. LEARN TO READ, OK?

These places are not fast food, and are so remote they help no one. Waste of an article.

As usual the nut & twig eaters have made it next to impossible for the average person to find a place where we can eat healthy.
In my area of the country only one of these healthy restaurants even exists and i have been ther once and wasn't happy the fare that they served nor the price.
Could u folks come back to the real world for a change?

I would love to eat at these places, but there are none around here. It seemed that choosing "fast foods" there wasn't any actual "fast food" chains on here. I think if you wanted to let people know where they can get something healthy and fast you should have just stuck to the main names..McDonalds, Wendys, Taco Bell. Then when we go there, which most americans visit them at least twice a week, we would be able to know what is healthy on those menus, and what to say away from! thank you!

The title of the article is America's Healthiest Fast Food Restaurants, not Fast Food restaurants that are actually healthy. If you are going to eat fast food, these are the best choices. They are not saying they are overly healthy.

Fast food???....none of these places could be considered fast by any stretch of the imagination especially if you were in a hurry. The Jason's Deli here in Las Vegas has great food but it's a minimun of 20 minutes to get your food. Same thing with the Panera Bread company and as some people have pointed out these places are loaded with mostly incredibly high Sodium foods especially the soups at all of them.

For those of you who cannot read: This is where the other 5 are:
Health.com: America's Top 10 Healthiest Fast Food Restaurants. The link is a the bottom of the article. DEEE DEEE DEEEEEEEEEE. Are you people smoking weed? Just don't inhale, please. LOL

He failed to mention Mediterranean fast food restaurant as such food has been studied by labs to be the healthiest of all foods on earth and still holds onto great taste. Ranging from olive oil usage to garlic, fresh vegitables, chicken kabob breast, Tabboleh, Hummus, ...etc.