Salad is the ultimate healthy food, but it’s extremely easy to diminish its healthy properties. All it takes is one wrong dressing to turn your salad into a calorie bomb, and many popular dressings that you can find at your local supermarket aren’t extremely healthy, especially these three.
Ranch
Made with buttermilk, garlic, onion, and herbs, ranch is one of the most popular salad dressings of all time. If you can’t imagine living without it, consider making your own, because the commercially produced version is packed with sodium and saturated fats.
Thousand Island
You should tread lightly with all mayonnaise-based dressings, and Thousand Island falls under this category. The store-bought version barely has any real nutritional value because it’s loaded with sugars, sodium, and saturated fats, and it won’t do any favors to your healthy salad.
Caesar Dressing
Caesar dressing has extremely high-calorie content because it’s made with Parmesan cheese, oil, and egg yolks, but that’s not the only reason why you should avoid it. It also averages 20 grams of fat per two-tablespoon serving, so it’s best avoided if you’re trying to reduce your fat intake.