Chipotle Deemed Healthiest Fast Food

Fast food is undoubtedly one of America’s guiltiest pleasures. In fact, it can hardly be called a ‘guilty pleasure’ because people so openly love their it. The food caters to our lifestyle, and provides a consistent product that is easy to access and, frankly, usually pretty delicious.

Because we’re constantly surrounded by every fast food option available, it’s easy to compromise a bit when it comes to our healthy habits. Although you may be determined to stick to a diet plan and prepare your own food, one day you might decide to sleep in late rather than make your lunch in the morning; you tell yourself, “this will be the one day that I grab a burger for lunch”. That one day turns into two days, and then into three, until you’ve returned to a diet that essentially unravels all of the discipline and hard work that you had invested in a healthier lifestyle.

But fast food doesn’t have to be the enemy of your diet. Although few, there are still healthy options available when looking for something to eat on-the-go. This article recently acknowledged the restaurant chain Chipotle as being the healthiest way to satisfy your fast food cravings.

Chipotle has always prided itself on its use of locally-acquired ingredients, rather than ingredients from a single production facility that ships processed goods to every location around the country; Chipotle ingredients are of much higher quality than those of other, more notoriously unhealthy burger restaurants. Part of the reason that Chipotle has emerged as the health-conscious solution to the fast-food dilemma is because of its readily available vegetarian and vegan offerings. The produce is fresh, and eliminating animal protein means that there will be even less fat in a single serving of Chipotle’s food than in that of another chain’s.

But people should be careful – just because Chipotle offers the customer a selection of healthy entrees doesn’t mean that it is the cure-all for your diet woes. There are still plenty of unhealthy items on the menu: a fully-loaded Chipotle burrito can hold more fat, calories and carbohydrates than even a Big Mac. So don’t be fooled, Chipotle isn’t a perfect answer to fast food obsession, but it’s still a pretty darn good one.

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