Re: sugar in restaurant foods

[Guest guest]

wrote:

<< For whatever reason restaurant food often gives me blood sugar spikes

even when I'm being 'good'. >>

There have been many reports that restaurant chefs add sweeteners to almost

everything. Before I was diagnosed diabetic, I was served spaghetti sauce

that tasted like candy, and even sugary onion rings! I don't like a Spartan

existence, but when we eat foods prepared by others, it's a pig in a poke

.... mystery substances.

Susie

[Guest guest]

Susie says:

There have been many reports that restaurant chefs add sweeteners to almost

everything. Before I was diagnosed diabetic, I was served spaghetti sauce

that tasted like candy, and even sugary onion rings!

Recently during a coworker lunch gathering, we were all discussing our early

jobs working in fast food, restaurants, etc. One woman said that she used

to work at Sonic, and discovered that they use the same mystery substance

for the base of their onion ring batter as the base of their milkshake mix!

Egads.

I've also been told that one of the reasons why Mcs frenchfries are

overwhelmingly loved by kids and adults alike is that they have a fairly

high amount of sugar in them. Not just the potato, plain ol' sugar coating

on the surface to give them that crunchy taste.

Kathy D. Lessa

http://www.kathylessa.com

http://www.pondkat.com

Dance like it hurts, love like you need

money, work when people are watching you.

--- (Dilbert)

[Guest guest]

It has occured to me that if diabetics could

organize (using an internet mailing list like

this one, for example :-) we could persuade some

national chain restaurants to start using

careful recipe and portion control and put

nutritional information on their menus (perhaps

a " special " menu for the people who ask).

There are enough of us that if it became known

among the diabetic community that certain

national restaurant chains were doing that,

those chains would get significantly more

business.

Is Sidney's restaurant a national chain?

What about Applebees? (the food isn't

great but it's a bar and the menus seem

to be standard).

Steve P.

[Guest guest]

Steve wrote:

>It has occured to me that if diabetics could

>organize (using an internet mailing list like

>this one, for example :-) we could persuade some

>national chain restaurants to start using

>careful recipe and portion control and put

>nutritional information on their menus (perhaps

>a " special " menu for the people who ask).

I was diagnosed in 1979. Even at that time, many fast food operations (like

Mc's, Burger King, etc. ) already had lists/brochures of the dietary

info of their foods with the ADA exchange system " for diabetics. " In fact,

I was surprised at how many chains DID provide that info " back then " . . .

when I had just " discovered " diabetes. But you had to ask for them. I'm

sure even more chain restaurants have such things available now, and in a

better format (i.e., carb grams, sodium, etc.), since so many people

" watch " so many different dietary restrictions. There are also books

available for purchase that list many different chains and the nutritional

info for their food since their ingredients and portions are (reasonably)

standardized throughout a chain. I would also expect that lots of that sort

of info may be available on the Internet these days. The info is certainly

available but you have to look for it and/or ask for it.

Sandy

Mc's

http://www.mcdonalds.com/countries/usa/food/nutrition_facts/index.html

Burger King

http://www.burgerking.com/Food/nutrition/interactivewizard/index.html

[Guest guest]

My husband also had a problem with how his food is digested and he is

allergic to chemicals like MSG.so we have all about stopped going to

cheap restaurant chains. While we love Applebee's etc we have not had

good experiences with the menu.

When we go out we usually find a very good restaurant. We also have

found ones that are not too expensive but you do tend to pay 20 dollars

more...We would rather dine in a great place with safe food not as

often. Around our area the good places usually have very healthy food.

In the real nice restaurants they are more then willing to leave out the

sugar and make you anything you desire or at least be super honest about

it and for me that is worth an extra 20 dollars.

sus

[Guest guest]

> I'm familiar with Applebees (don't know if that makes it national),

but I've

> never heard of Sidney's.

>

>

Applebee's is a national chain... i've seen them in Maine, New York

and California

So is Red Lobster

Olive Garden

IHOP

Bennigans

Dennys

I'm willing to help participate in a email campagin.

[Guest guest]

Dear Sandy,

>The info is certainly

>available but you have to look for it and/or ask for it.

>

>Mc's

>http://www.mcdonalds.com/countries/usa/food/nutrition_facts/index.html

>

>Burger King

>http://www.burgerking.com/Food/nutrition/interactivewizard/index.html

Thanks for that info. I guess I was thinking of

" real " restaurants rather than fast-food.

In the case of fast-food joints, it's a

comparatively simple matter since the recipes

and portion sizes are necessarily very

standardized (that's the whole point of a fast

-food restaurant) and the menus

don't change very often.

But you have a good point. There are probably

" real " restaurants that have nutritional

information on special menus for those

few people who think to ask.

Steve.

[Guest guest]

My husband also had a problem with how his food is digested and he is

allergic to chemicals like MSG.so we have all about stopped going to

cheap restaurant chains

Sus,

I am too... I have had that problem when I go out to restaurants that use

a lot of MSG. I can't breathe in a few hours.

Sandy H.

[Guest guest]

Sandy Burdsall wrote:

<< I'm sure even more chain restaurants have such things available now, and

in a better format (i.e., carb grams, sodium, etc.) >>

This site is very helpful to check out nutritional info for chain

restaurants:

http://www.calorieking.com/foods/category.php?cat=21

Susie