Restaurant Calories: Too Hard Basket? :

If calorie counting is important to you, then you need to think carefully and realistically about restaurant or fast food.

Two reasons:

1. Accurate assessment of calorie content in restaurant food is very difficult.
2. Even listed nutritional information can be flat out wrong.

Californian advocacy group CCPHA claims that an "overwhelming number of Californians" were unable to identify foods high in fat, salt, or calories.

You try it: Which Denny's dish is lowest in calories:

• ham and cheddar omelet
• country fried steak and eggs
• three slices of French toast with syrup and margarine
• three pancakes with syrup and margarine

To add insult to injury, a recent Canadian investigation of donuts found that the fat content was significantly higher than claimed.

For example, Dunkin' Donuts' says its crullers contain eight grams of fat but the doughnuts tested by the lab contained 13 g. Krispy Kreme says its crullers contain 13 g of fat but tests showed the fat content to be 19 g.

The moral of the story is: if you eat out a lot - you may want to change your habits.

PS. The answer to the Denny's question: Country fried steak and eggs contains the lowest amount of calories ( check out the quiz here ).

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