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Eating at fast food restaurants can be a challenge for someone with diabetes. Meals can be high in fat, sodium, calories, and carbohydrate. Finding fast food that fits into your meal plan takes planning. If you know the nutritional content of the menu items you want to eat, you can make educated choices within your meal plan.

Published:
12-Dec-2004

This booklet provides you with the nutritional information for the following fast food restaurants:

We also have links for the restaurants' own nutrition pages

  • Arby's®
  • Baskin Robbins®
  • Burger King®
  • Carl's Jr.®
  • DairyQueen®
  • Domino's Pizza®
  • Dunkin Donuts®
  • Einstein Bros Bagels®
  • Jack-In-The-Box®
  • Jamba Juice®
  • Kentucky Fried Chicken®
  • Krispy KremeDoughnuts®
  • McDonald's®
  • Panda Express®
  • Pizza Hut®
  • Starbuck's®
  • Subway®
  • Taco Bell®
  • Wendy's®

The nutrition information was obtained from the individual restaurants. Menu items were analyzed by computer and not by chemical analysis of the product. Soft drinks are not listed in each of the fast food restaurants. Refer to Einstein's cold beverage section for a sampling of these items. Specialty drinks like milkshakes, smoothies, and coffees have been included. For more detailed information you may visit the restaurant's web site found at the top of each page. The nutritional information includes serving sizes (weight), calories, carbohydrates, fiber, protein, fat, percent calories from fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, and sodium. Meal Exchanges are also included. The legend for the Exchanges are:

  • c = carb (starch, fruit, milk and vegetables);
  • m = medium fat meat,
  • lm = lean meat,
  • vlm = very lean meat;
  • f = fat

A Registered Dietitian or Certified Diabetes Educator can teach you how to interpret this guide so that you can make food choices that best fit into your meal plan.

SOURCE: Becton, Dickinson and Company
This guide is reproduced and distributed with permission.