Healthy Fast Food – Quiznos Subs
Not to be out capitalized in the healthy fast food arena by Subway’s low fat menu, Quiznos has been touting their own menu of low calorie small subs, all with 420 calories or less, but unlike Subway, the Quiznos calorie totals include the recommended dressings, but no cheese.
While the Quiznos subs have a greater variety than the otherwise standard (read: boring) Subway low fat menu, the fat content in three of the five low calorie Quiznos subs is a Tiny high. The small Tusan Turkey, Steakhouse Beef Dip and Baja Chicken all have 13 grams of fat or more, despite being relatively low calorie. One note about the fat content however: the bulk of the fat content comes from the suggested dressing , without it the subs contain 9 grams of fat or less, making it a healthier fast food option.
The remainder of the Quiznos sub menu contains a number of high fat subs, and again the Tuna Melt sub is one of the highest fat culprits, weighing in at an incredible 54.5 grams of fat for a small! Quiznos features bacon and high fat dressings on the majority of their subs, which contributes to the higher fat and calorie content. Many of the subs would be a reasonable (not great, but reasonable) choice if you hold the dressings and bacon.
Quiznos offers an assortment of Flatbread Chopped Salads, which without the flatbread and dressings are 300 calories or less, but adding the flatbread doubles the calorie counts, bringing all salads over 600 calories.
Quiznos also offers their Flatbread Sammies, which are mini sandwiches that nearly resemble soft tacos, made with flatbread. Quiznos boasts that five of their six Sammies have 200 calories or less, however they’re very small, and the typical person will eat two in an average meal, so go ahead and double that calorie count. Additionally, the calorie count does not include dressings or cheese, so they aren’t quite the healthy fast food option that Quiznos would like us to believe.
