ConAgra makes Healthy Choice foods, including bread, soups, ice cream bars and frozen meals. Healthy Choice Complete Meals each come with a main course, side dish and fruit-based dessert. The Homestyle Salisbury Steak dinner has steak, gravy, mashed potatoes, red-skin potatoes, vegetables and caramel apple crisp, and it lists nutrition information for the entire 12.5oz. meal.
Basic Information
The Homestyle Salisbury Steak dinner has 310 calories and 6 g fat, 18 g protein and 46 g carbohydrates, including 17 g sugar. It has 15 percent of the daily value for iron and 40 percent for vitamin C, which helps your body to absorb iron. The steak dinner has 10 percent of the daily value for the bone strengthening mineral calcium, and it has 6 percent of the daily value for vitamin A. The meal provides a full serving of vegetables.
Fat And Cholesterol
Healthy Choice's Homestyle Salisbury Steak dinner is a low fat food. It provides 60 calories from fat, or 19 percent of its total calories from fat. It has 6 g total fat and is trans fat free. Saturated and trans fats and cholesterol can raise your risk for heart disease by increasing levels of bad LDL cholesterol levels in your blood. The dinner has 2.5 g saturated fat, or 13 percent of the daily value for saturated fat, and 35 mg cholesterol, or 12 percent of the daily value.
Dietary Fiber
Dietary fiber is a nutrient that comes from the parts of plant foods that your body cannot digest. According to the 2005 Dietary Guidelines from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, high fiber diets may reduce the risk of heart disease or constipation. However, many Americans do not eat their recommended amounts of fiber. Homestyle Salisbury Steak from Healthy Choice has 9 g dietary fiber, or 36 percent of the daily value for someone on a 2,000-calorie diet.
Sodium
High sodium diets can lead to high blood pressure, which is a risk factor for kidney disease, coronary artery disease and stroke. The 2005 Dietary Guidelines state that most Americans consume more sodium than they need, with the majority coming from processed and prepared foods. The daily value for sodium for a healthy adult on a 2,000-calorie diet is 2,400 mg, and higher-risk individuals such as those with hypertension should stay below 1,500 mg per day. The Homestyle Salisbury Steak dinner has 590 mg sodium.
Heart-Check Mark
Healthy Choice participates in the Heart-Check Mark program, which the American Heart Association sponsors to help consumers choose heart-healthy products in grocery stores. Packaged foods may display a heart-check mark symbol on their labels if they meet certain criteria for heart-healthy nutrition. Requirements include being low in cholesterol, sodium and bad fats, and having at least 10 percent of the daily value for vitamin A, vitamin C, dietary fiber, iron, calcium or protein. Healthy Choice Homestyle Salisbury Steak meets these requirements.
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