Marie Callender's Restaurant And Bakery serves American food including pies, pot pies and burgers. The Original Burger comes with beef chuck patties, a hamburger bun, lettuce, tomato, margarine, pickles, seasoned salt, and Thousand Island dressing. If you want to build a healthy meal, follow the American Heart Association's suggestion to check the nutrition information online using its interactive calculator as a tool.
Calories and Fat
Marie Callender's Original Burger has 1,250 calories and 79g fat, or 122 percent of the daily value. Saturated and trans fats raise levels of "bad," or LDL cholesterol in the blood. To follow recommendations from the American Heart Association, someone on a 2,000 calorie diet should limit saturated fats to about 20g per day and trans fats to under 2g per day. The Original Burger has 19g saturated fat and 1g trans fat.
Sodium
Many processed and restaurant foods are high in salt, which provides sodium. A high sodium diet can lead to high blood pressure and health risks such as stroke and coronary heart disease. The Original Burger has 1,840mg sodium or 77 percent of the daily value for sodium. If you order your burger without the seasoned salt, you can save 350mg sodium. The French fries that come with the burger contribute 430mg sodium and the Thousand Island dressing has 470mg sodium.
Other Nutrients
Marie Callender's Original Burger has 84g carbohydrate, 5g dietary fiber, 10g sugar and 51g protein. The burger has 10 percent of the daily value for vitamins A and C, 15 percent of the daily value for calcium and 40 percent of the daily value for iron. The burger has 145mg cholesterol. For some people, eating cholesterol increases levels of LDL cholesterol, and the American Heart Association recommends staying under 300mg cholesterol per day.
Substitutions
You can improve the nutritional profile of your burger by skipping the French fries, Thousand Island dressing and margarine. An Original Burger with ketchup and a Petite Salad with low-calorie Golden Italian dressing and no croutons has fewer calories and less fat than the Original Burger with no special orders. This burger and salad have 565 calories, 23g fat, 7g saturated fat, 1g trans fat, 130mg cholesterol and 3g dietary fiber.
Tips
When you are checking the nutrition facts for your Original Burger at Marie Callender's, remember to count the values from other menu items such as appetizers, beverages, sides and desserts. An Original Burger with mozzarella sticks, a small Cobb salad with ranch dressing, strawberry lemonade and a slice of apple pie has about twice the daily value for cholesterol and sodium and three times the amount of saturated fat that most people should get. You can make lower calorie choices by choosing fat free salad dressing or diet soda and eating smaller portions.
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