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    Salt content in fast food chicken strips

    By | Shine Food – Wed, Apr 13, 2011 6:21 PM EDT


    You'd think fat would be the problem with chicken strips. Not so. But some have a full day's worth of salt.

    Dietary Guidelines for Sodium Intake

    The new Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend 1,500mg of sodium daily for those at risk for blood-pressure-related diseases, and 2,300mg for everyone else. For a little perspective on how easy it is to hit those marks, look at how heavily the salt shaker is deployed with these eight fast-food chicken strips.

    For each restaurant example, we chose the smallest-available serving. Differences in serving size account for some of the sodium variation.

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    Hardee's

    The Facts:
    3 pieces per order
    260 calories
    2.5g sat fat
    770mg sodium

    McDonald's

    The Facts:
    3 pieces per order
    400 calories
    3.5g sat fat
    1,010mg sodium

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    Arby's

    The Facts:
    3 pieces per order
    360 calories
    2.5g sat fat
    1,160mg sodium

    Chick-Fil-A

    The Facts:
    3 pieces per order
    360 calories
    3.5g sat fat
    1,230mg sodium

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    KFC

    The Facts:
    3 pieces per order
    340 calories
    4g sat fat
    1,280mg sodium

    Church's

    The Facts:
    3 pieces per order
    360 calories
    6g sat fat
    1,320mg sodium

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