Tops 10 Unhealthiest Salads At Restaurant Food Chains: How to Prepare a Healthy Salad

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Listed below are the 10 unhealthiest salads served at restaurant food chains. 

1. Chicken Cobb Salad with Avocado at Panera

This particular salad contains 660 calories with an additional 140 calories if served with BBQ ranch dressing on the side, reports Business Insider.

2. Po Boy at Chop't

This salad contains 680 calories, but the calorie count can increase to 995 if served with olive oil and balsamic vinegar.

3. The Fiesta Taco Salad with Beef at Taco Bell

According to MSN, this salad actually contains more sodium than recommended by the American Heart Association.

The organization advises consuming less than 1500 mg daily, but this Taco Bell salad alone contains 1590 mg of sodium. It also has 780 calories.

4. Wendy's Spicy Chicken Caesar Salad

This salad is worth 780 calories and also contain too much sodium at 1650 mg, reports MSN.

5. Grand Taco Beef Salad from On the Border

This salad has 870 calories. If dressing is added, this salad can contain up to 11,000 calories, according to Business Insider.

6. The Custom Option at Just Salad's

Using the nutrition menu at Just Salad's can result in a salad that contains 970 calories, if a person is not familiar with making healthy salads, states MSN.

7. TGI Friday's Pecan-crusted Chicken Salad

This salad is worth a whopping 1080 calories, reports MSN.

8. Applebee's Oriental Chicken Salad

This salad has 99 g of fat and contains 1400 calories.

9. Chili's Quesadilla Explosion Salad

This dish is more of a quesadilla than a salad at 1430 calories, states MSN.

10. Caesar Salad with Chicken at the Cheesecake Factory

With the highest calorie count among all the salads, this dish contains 1510 calories, reports BI.

For a healthy salad, Click on Detroit recommends staying away from heavy meats, cheeses or dressing. In addition, to keep safe try only using five ingredients at first, until you learn which ingredients taste great together without adding too many calories to the dish.

Meanwhile, Joy Bauer advises only adding one extra to a salad to prevent additional calories. Try adding either Parmesan cheese of sliced almonds, but never both.

Additionally, limiting the amount of dressing in your salad to one and a half tablespoons can also help decrease its calorie count.

Joy Bauer recommends building a salad from the bottom up starting with the base, or greens of the salad, then adding plenty of vegetables.