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Here are 13 Chick-fil-A menu items, ranked from worst to best for you nutritionally.
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With more sugar than you’d find in many candy bars, this is definitely a special-occasion-only treat.
“By fast food standards it’s 10/10, by homemade baked macaroni standards?
Absolutely atrocious working conditions,” one employeejoked.
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One employeesaida surprisingly large amount of people order some sort of salad with their chicken meals.
“They are eating salads.
Some days, we sell anywhere from 50-80 side salads on top of the standard salads.
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Cobb is by far the biggest seller with over 120 a day.”
Adding dressing adds hundreds of calories (Avocado Lime Ranch alone is 310 calories).
“Calories in a Chick-fil-A sauce.
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That blows my mind!
“It blows my mind when people get 2-3 of those for their one salad order,” anotheradded.
Chick-fil-A Nuggets
Standard Chick-fil-A nuggets have a lot of protein, but are also high in sodium.
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Some guests are appalled at how expensive they are (almost $1 per nugget in California).
They are getting real close lol,” one Redditorsaid.
Hash Browns
While hash browns are deep-fried, the portion is small and overall damage is limited.
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Even just now I came off 16 hours of intermittent fasting and still got full like immediately.
“I never liked the grilled sandwiches but I LOVE the grilled nuggets,” one Redditor said.
“I second this!
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“I get them for low carb purposes either stand alone or on the cobb salad.
And I really actually kind of like them better than the regular nuggets some days.
Just depends on my mood,” a third added.
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