Where to begin!?
Dumplings appear in nearly every world cuisine, although they can look drastically different from place to place.
The basic premise: a bite-sized piece of a meat or veggie mixture, enveloped in dough.
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Usually, there’s a dipping sauce involved.
They can also come boiled, fried, or steamedtalk about variety!
But the wide range brings with it a lot of variation in quality, too.
Feel Good Foods
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PF Chang’s Pork Dumplings
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Chang’s signature pork dumplings nutrition panel accounts for 2 teaspoons of sauce per serving.
Feel Good Foods Pork Potstickers
These gluten-free potstickers stand out in a sea of gluten-heavy dumplings.
The wrappers on these dumplings are made from rice, tapioca, and konjac flour.
Feel Good Foods generally places a lot of importance on the quality of their ingredients.
The pork used in these potstickers, for example, is raised without antibiotics.
So if you want to make these even healthier, put the sauce down.
If you value the quantity of dumplings over the filling ratio, this might be your top pick.
For those reasons, this is a clear middle-of-the-pack option.
Worst frozen dumplings you’re able to buy
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The fat content is almost surprising as other available options usually cap off at about 10 grams.
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That means that each 5-piece serving has 3 grams of sugar and 700 mg sodium without the sauce.
Knowing how high in sugar and sodium these dumpling sauces usually are, you do the math.
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