To the Editor:
Thank you for "Salads or No, Cheap Burgers Revive McDonald's" (front page, April 19), exposing McDonald's salad scam. Calling something a salad doesn't make it healthy. Except for the apple walnut variety, all the fast-food giant's premium salads are nutrition disasters.
The bacon ranch salad with crispy chicken packs 31 grams of fat, almost half of the daily allotment and a whopping 70 percent of the daily recommended amount of salt.
Essentially, McDonald's has dumped the contents of its chicken sandwiches on top of some lettuce and served it up with a creamy dressing. Touting its premium salads gives the false impression that the company sells healthy food and that customers have choices.
This is another lawsuit waiting to happen: making people think they are eating healthy when they aren't.
Michele Simon
Founder and Director
Center for Informed Food Choices
Oakland, Calif., April 19, 2006
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