When you order sandwiches at Subway restaurants, you can choose each of the components. The nutrition information for a Subway Roasted Chicken on Flatbread is for a six inch sandwich with a roasted chicken breast, lettuce, olives, tomatoes, cucumbers, green peppers and onions. If you add cheese or sauce, get a foot-long sandwich, or switch the bread, the nutrition information will change.
Macronutrients
The six inch Subway Roasted Chicken on Flatbread sandwich has 330 calories with 7 g fat and 1.5 g saturated fat, which can increase blood LDL cholesterol levels. The sandwich has 45 g carbohydrate with 4 sugar and 3 g dietary fiber, or 12 percent of the daily value for dietary fiber for someone on a 2,000 calorie diet. It has 23 g protein. If you get your sandwich with cheese, you will have another 40 to 60 calories and 3 to 5 g fat.
Cholesterol
Dietary cholesterol comes from animal foods and increases levels of LDL cholesterol in the blood for some people. Healthy adults should not eat more than 300 mg per day of cholesterol, and people with risk factors for heart disease should limit themselves to 200 mg cholesterol. The Subway Roasted Chicken on Flatbread sandwich has 25 mg cholesterol. If you have cheese on your sandwich, you will add 10 to 20 mg cholesterol to your total.
Vitamins And Minerals
The Subway Roasted Chicken on Flatbread has 8 percent of the daily value for vitamin A, 30 percent of the daily value for vitamin C and 15 percent of the daily value for iron. Sodium is in table salt and processed foods, and the sandwich has 780 mg sodium. The daily value for sodium is 2,400 mg. Adding cheese would add up to 15 percent of the daily value for calcium and 30 to 200 mg sodium.
Meal Additions
SubwayFreshBuzz.com suggests that you make your Roasted Chicken on Flatbread sandwich into a meal by adding water and Lay's potato crisps. These items would provide an extra 130 calories, 2 g fat, 200 mg sodium, 23 g carbohydrate and 2 g dietary fiber. Baked potato chips are lower in calories, fat and sugar than choices such as cookies or apple pie. An option that is lower in calories and high in nutrients are apple slices with 35 calories and 30 percent of the daily value for vitamin C.
Assessment
The American Heart Association offers advice for making healthier choices at fast food restaurants and you can follow some of these suggestions by ordering a Subway Roasted Chicken sandwich. The AHA recommends choosing chicken instead of burgers, ordering wheat instead of white bread and asking for vegetables on sandwiches. However, the nine-grain wheat bread is not whole grain. Another benefit of this sandwich is that it has foods from multiple food groups including the grain, vegetable and meat groups.
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