Big yikes. Starting to notice a trend about buffalo chicken? It's always a sodium bomb and this sandwich from Chili's is no exception. With bacon, mayo, BBQ sauce, and brisket, it's no wonder this sandwich from BJ's has more than 4, milligrams of the salty stuff. Smothering Buffalo chicken all over some mac and cheese sounds like the ultimate comfort food, but this dish from Uno is simply not worth all those calories, fat, carbs, and sodium!
Don't be fooled by thinking this shrimp dish "isn't so bad" compared to others on this list. It's overall lower in calories although still high! Pretzels might seem like a harmless appetizer option at first glance, but it should really come as no surprise that they're carrying a lot of salt.
You'll be downing more than 4, milligrams of sodium before your main course arrives. It's no secret Southern-inspired food tastes simply delicious, but this fried chicken sandwich topped with white cheddar cheese and a Tabasco chipotle pepper sauce isn't doing much to help your waistline coming in at over 4, milligrams of sodium. The serving size of these Buffalo bites seems reasonable, but just eating these bites serves up a day and a half's worth of sodium.
And most likely, you're eating more than just these bites. The word "crispy" should already be a red flag because it's just code for deep fried. This chicken is served with French fries and slathered in sauce that is also rather high in sugar. But taking a look at the sodium, it's clear this meal that is doing no favors for your health.
Even though this chicken dish has some veggies thrown in, that doesn't mean it's healthy. After this chicken is tossed in a salty sauce, it's served on top of a bed of noodles, making it a shocking 1, calories and more than 4, milligrams of sodium. Sure, you might want to kick things up a notch by adding Nashville hot sauce to your ribs.
But this meal has a whopping 4, milligrams of sodium—more than you should eat in an entire day. If you really want these ribs, try sharing them with a friend or two. This pasta dish at Cheesecake Factory might be Evelyn's favorite, but it's one you should avoid at all costs, as it's packing more than 4, milligrams of sodium.
And we all know how easy it is to get carried when eating a bowl of pasta! Sounds harmless, but it ends up being a meal that comes in with just over 4, milligrams of sodium.
That is just not worth it! Eating a shrimp-based dish is naturally a healthier option, right? Well, this pasta dish smothered is in sauce and cheese and instantly changes that theory as it comes in at almost 5, milligrams of sodium.
Between the four different kinds of meats, the rich tomato sauce, and parmesan cream pasta, this dish is packed with calories upon calories, fat, and, yes, sodium. A staggering 5, milligrams of sodium, to be exact! No wonder it's considered the worst dish to order from The Cheesecake Factory …. You already know pasta is carb-heavy, which is why the slightly more than grams of carbs for this gnocchi shouldn't be a huge shock.
But the added salty Italian sausage brings this dish over 5, milligrams of sodium—that's more than two day's worth.
Now, I need to explain each of these aspects more in-depth if you want to fully understand why a meal can be super salty in a restaurant.
Also, when you know these reasons, you can quite easily guess why that specific dish is so salty. So the first reason why restaurant food is salty is for the taste reasons.
There is a fine line in enhancing the flavors of the ingredients and the pure taste of salt, which can go either way, even with professional chefs sometimes. Restaurant food can be so salty for your tastebuds that you can be more sensitive to the salt than chefs, which is usually the case.
In fact, many chefs have lost a part of their taste because so many chefs smoke , because they use so much salt or are used to the tastes when compared to the customer. These reasons can be why the food is so salty. Another reason for heavy salt usage in a dish is to draw out water content from the ingredients more efficiently. When you are frying vegetables or meat, adding salt will help draw out the water content from them, leading to more crispy and pleasant outcomes.
When a chef does this, it can be easy to overseason food because the dish will likely be added with more ingredients that need to be seasoned as well; therefore, salt can be added many times, which increases the risk of oversalting. This is a popular practice in many low-end restaurants. When a restaurant purchases cheap meats, it would be more obvious for the customers when it is lightly seasoned.
When I had my first job in a lunch buffet restaurant, I was in charge of soups for the week. The seasoning and salt seemed well balanced in the preparation phase, but when the soup is on display for a couple of hours, the water will slowly evaporate from the soup, which leaves thicker soup with far enhanced tastes.
This resulted in over salty soup, even when it was well balanced right after preparation. Please attempt to sign up again. Sign Up Now. An unexpected error has occurred with your sign up. Please try again later. Check here if you would like to receive subscription offers and other promotions via email from TIME group companies.
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