Marie Callender's Restaurant and Bakery offers a wide variety of food and baked goods, including various pies. Although offered in many delicious flavors and types, Marie Callender's pies provide an excess of calories, fat, sugar and sodium. Check the nutrition of the pie before you choose to eat it. You might decide to skip it or make a homemade pie instead.
Types
Marie Callender's offers a wide variety of pie choices, including fruit, cream, meringue and no-sugar-added pies. Its selection of cream pies tend to have the most calories and fat since they contain a large amount of cream with added whipped cream. The fruit pies come in next on the unhealthy scale, followed by meringue pies and the no-sugar added varieties.
Calories
All types of Marie Callender's pies can easily throw off your best intentions to eat healthily. One slice of apple pie contains 570 calories, lemon meringue has 550 calories, coconut cream contains 650 calories and the no-sugar added apple pie has 480 calories in a slice. One slice of any type contains more than a quarter of the calories needed in a day on a 2,000-calories-a-day diet.
Fat
Marie Callender's pies are also excessive in fat content. A slice of apple pie has 45 percent of the daily value of fat and 60 percent DV saturated fat; the lemon meringue has 31 percent DV fat and 40 percent DV saturated fat. The coconut cream contains 57 percent DV fat and a whopping 100 percent DV saturated fat, and the no-sugar-added apple pie is not low in fat, with 48 percent DV fat and 70 percent DV saturated fat. According to FDA guidelines, 5 percent DV fat is a low amount and 20 percent DV is considered high. The amount of fat in each slice of pie is well over the high marker.
Nutrients
Although Marie Callender's pies provide high levels of necessary nutrients, they also contain an excessive amount of nutrients that should be minimized. A slice of apple has 22 percent DV sodium and 29 g sugar, lemon meringue contains 13 percent DV sodium and 59 g sugar and the coconut cream has 19 percent DV sodium and 42 g sugar. The no-sugar-added apple pie is a little better in this category, with 7 g sugar, although it also contains 20 percent DV sodium. Each type contains a high level of sodium by FDA guidelines. On a positive note, the apple pie has 8 percent DV fiber, the lemon meringue contains 4 percent, the coconut cream gives you 16 percent and the no-sugar-added apple provides 20 percent of your daily fiber needs. All varieties provide significant amounts of protein and iron as well.
Prevention/Solution
Make your own pie at home as a healthier substitute for Marie Callender's options. At home, you can control which ingredients go into your pie. Instead of the preservatives, artificial flavorings and oils with saturated fat in Marie Callender's pies, you can use natural flavors, no preservatives and polyunsaturated or monounsaturated oil. You can also control the amount of sodium and sugar you add to your pies.
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