Dole's range of salad kits are healthy and convenient. Although they're more expensive than buying the salad ingredients yourself, the kits are ready to eat in seconds. Open the bag, mix the toppings and dressings in with the field greens, and dinner is served. The Perfect Harvest salad is designed to evoke the flavors of Autumn.
Ingredients
The Dole Perfect Harvest Salad kit contains a premixed green salad and additional dressing and toppings. The field greens are radicchio, carrots, endive and romaine lettuce; the dressing is a Dole Apple Cider Dijon Vinaigrette. The Perfect Harvest Salad Kit comes with diced almonds and dried cranberries, packaged separately, as toppings. The packaged salad kit weighs 248 grams including the greens, dressing and toppings.
Nutritional Information
The nutrition label indicates that a packaged kit contains just under 2.5 servings at 100 grams apiece. A 100-gram serving of the Perfect Harvest Salad contains 160 calories, 12 grams of fat, 105 milligrams of sodium, 11 grams of carbohydrate, 3 grams of dietary fiber, 7 grams of sugar and 2 grams of protein. These nutritional values assume that the salad kit is well mixed so that each serving contains an equal amount of toppings and dressing.
Nutritional Benefits
The Dole Perfect Harvest Salad Kit is a low-calorie food, helpful if you're limiting caloric intake for purposes of weight maintenance or weight loss. At 12 percent fat by weight, it doesn't meet the definition of a low-fat food; however, almost all of the fat present in the salad is unsaturated fat. Unsaturated fat is considered healthier than saturated or trans fats. Additionally, a single 100-gram serving of the salad provides some 80 percent of an average person's daily vitamin A requirement, together with smaller quantities of calcium, iron and vitamin C.
Nutritional Disadvantages
The Dole Perfect Harvest Salad Kit doesn't contain any significant quantity of protein. An average adult needs around 50 grams of protein daily -- eating a serving of the salad with dressing and toppings uses up a portion of your daily calorie limit without providing protein for these calories. Add low-fat protein to the meal by having your salad with chicken, grilled fish, beans or tofu.
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