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Not good for low-carb/keto eaters. Soy has carbs, chicken doesn't. There has been some discussion regarding subway and carbs in the chicken, because their nutr
by AndyNemmity 10y ago
Not good for low-carb/keto eaters. Soy has carbs, chicken doesn't.
There has been some discussion regarding subway and carbs in the chicken, because their nutrition shows far fewer than some app trackers do. If it's 50%, that's a serious level of carbs, and makes Subway not an option.
- TheSpiceIsLife 10y agoWho on a low carb / keto died eats a sandwich?
- MichaelApproved 10y agoThey also make wraps and salads with that chicken.
- maxerickson 10y agoOr just put the chicken on the outside of the sandwich. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Down_(sandwich) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Down_(sandwich)
- jessaustin 10y agoHaha here's one I've had recently: https://www.tacobell.com/food/new/naked-chicken-chalupa https://www.tacobell.com/food/new/naked-chicken-chalupa
- ClassyJacket 10y agoNobody. You can buy salads. They're awful, but I've done it when Subway was the only thing around.
- a3n 10y agoI will often order a hamburger and leave the bun aside. The bun is just filler. I've done the same with other kinds of sandwiches.
- DrScump 10y agoMe too. But as for Subway, I find so little actual meat (and/or cheese) in any of their sandwiches, I never go there even though I'm bombarded with coupons from them.
- chmars 10y agoWho eats your bun?
- a3n 10y agoI order the burger as is, because I don't want to annoy the waiter or the cook, or me. I also don't eat the lettuce or the pickle, if they happen to come with. I'm not going to go down the list of what I will or won't accept for a burger and a 30 minute relationship. I don't know what you're getting at.
- vilmosi 10y agoThat you are incredibly wasteful if you throw away 50% of the calories you buy. Go to a place that sells a naked burger without lettuce if that's what you want.
- imjustsaying 10y agoYou can eat a sandwich on a low carb or even a keto diet while staying within carb limits. It's not like it's Kryptonite.
- ClassyJacket 10y agoThat's not true. You'll go out of ketosis if you eat a sandwich. Especially one as huge as a Subway roll. A six inch has 37 grams of carbs in the bread alone, and most low carbers stick to under 20 per day.
- imjustsaying 10y ago>most low carbers stick to under 20 per day. I'm going to need to see a source on that. Ancedotally, I do 50-100 and do just fine.
- learc83 10y ago>If it's 50%, that's a serious level of carbs An ounce of tofu has about 0.5g of carbs. I don't think it's going to add more than a few grams for an entire sandwich.
- AndyNemmity 10y agoFor keto you have 20. If it's 4 grams, that's 20% of what you can have from something expected to have 0.
- TillE 10y ago20g is on the really low end. Test with Ketostix, tons of people are fine with over 50g.
- AndyNemmity 10y agoKetostix don't test nutritional ketosis, and several brands are widely off. But you're right that many people do 40g, or 50g.
- angry_octet 10y agoYou win the NASA award for mixing metric and imperial in the most nonsensical way.
- karthikb 10y agoMost food labeling in the US is done this way. Gross measures (total volume, weight, etc) are in imperial while the nutrition facts are in metric. So milk will say, serving size 12 Oz, protein XX g.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> Most food labeling in the US is done this way. Gross measures (total volume, weight, etc) are in imperial while the nutrition facts are in metric. So milk will say, serving size 12 Oz, protein XX g. Both net contents and serving size include metric measures. "Food labels printed must show the net contents in both metric (grams, kilograms, milliliters, liters) and U.S. Customary System (ounces, pounds, fluid ounces) terms." [0] "The serving size is expressed as a common household measure followed by the equivalent metric quantity in parenthesis." [1] [0] https://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/GuidanceDocumentsRegulatoryInformation/LabelingNutrition/ucm064877.htm#gramounce https://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/GuidanceDocument... [1] https://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/GuidanceDocumentsRegulatoryInformation/LabelingNutrition/ucm064904.htm#raccs https://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/GuidanceDocument...
- Joakal 10y agoSubway prides themselves on having low or no fat in sandwiches as a great way to lose weight. The catch is that the carbs are there. ie, bread. Sneaky.
- djsumdog 10y agoYea I switched to a keto diet a few years back and it's made a world of difference. Bread is really terrible for you, especially in the quantities we eat in the western world. A subway sandwich is terrible for you with its bread to filling ratio, and now we see their chicken salads may not be as healthy as we thought as well.
- JumpCrisscross 10y ago> Bread is really terrible for you Maybe for some people. But we don't have the nutritional science to say this definitively, let alone universally.
- kaybe 10y agoAnd let me just note that what the English-speaking world considers bread is an abomination. Sincerely, a German. (Seriously, if you can compact it easily to a third of the size, that's just wrong. And don't get me started on the strange interior.)
- tedmiston 10y agoIf you think our bread is bad, stay far away from American cheese...
- realusername 10y agoI'm French so I'll pass on that one...
- aaronblohowiak 10y agoMost American bread is awful, but I disagree that a really open crumb is an abomination. A very crusty, tangy open-crumbed sourdough is practically heaven. That said, I'd love to find a decent schwarzbrot near Belmont..
- nradov 10y agoSubway has nutritional information on line. They claim that a regular chicken sandwich has 45g carbs so if that's false advertising I think their customers could have solid grounds for a class-action lawsuit. http://www.subway.com/en-us/menunutrition/menu/product?ProductId=4370&MenuCategoryId=1 http://www.subway.com/en-us/menunutrition/menu/product?Produ...
- amelius 10y agoWell, if I can believe this [1], then hidden carbs in chicken is not the only thing keto eaters have to worry about. [1] https://bengreenfieldfitness.com/2011/08/the-hidden-dangers-of-a-low-carbohydrate-diet/ https://bengreenfieldfitness.com/2011/08/the-hidden-dangers-...
- DrScump 10y agoI sure wouldn't. His science is a joke. Note that none of the "ten steps" quotes a single reference. (Frankly, I stopped reading at "digestive cancers")
- derefr 10y agoWhat would make a better protein "filler" for mechanically-separated chicken? Almonds?
- dsr_ 10y agoChicken would work well.
- ac29 10y agoAlmonds cost ~3-4x per pound as chicken.
- dredmorbius 10y agoA valid point, though there might be others. Texturising additives which keep and store well (almonds, almond-meal, or almond paste might, say, keep longer and better than chicken, with less refrigeration) could also be considerations. It's also possible that almonds rejected from other uses (for cosmetic reasons, small fragments) might be less expensive than whole, high-grade consumer almonds.
- DrScump 10y agoRead up on what "mechanically separated" poultry/pork actually is, and you may never eat it again. I don't.
- refurb 10y agomechanically separate meat is a paste-like meat product produced by forcing pureed or ground beef, pork, turkey or chicken, under high pressure through a sieve or similar device to separate the bone from the edible meat tissue.[1] What is unappealing about that? It's still meat, just finely ground. And if you're keen on not wasting meat, it's a great way to get the last bit of meat off a carcass. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanically_separated_meat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanically_separated_meat
- throwaway2048 10y ago
- dragonwriter 10y agoAlso not good for people with soy allergies, and soy is one of the major food allergens.
- donarb 10y agoSubway publishes a list of all allergens in its products. http://www.subway.com/~/media/usa/documents/nutrition/us_allergen_chart.pdf http://www.subway.com/~/media/usa/documents/nutrition/us_all...
- 08-15 10y ago> Soy has carbs, chicken doesn't. Soy protein doesn't have carbs, though. I also wonder where the DNA ends up when the soy protein is extracted. DNA is naturally bound to proteins, amnd I don't know if that bond is broken in the extraction process. If it isn't, the concentration of DNA in soy protein would be much higher than in soy beans, so there is a real possibility that 1% soy protein in the patty equates to 50% soy DNA in the whole DNA. That also means the title overstates the case. It can only confidently make a statement about the fraction of chicken DNA, and adding the weasel word "may" to an unsound conclusion makes it unscientific in my opinion.
- charlesdm 10y agoSubway isn't exactly a healthy low carb choice, so doesn't really matter?