Rethinking Your Chicken Choices

Trisha Calvo
Updated

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When you’re short on time or energy, takeout or a frozen meal such as a grain bowl can be a solution to the problem of getting a nutritious dinner on the table fast. But even healthy-sounding dishes with similar ingredients and approximately the same serving size can vary greatly in nutrition. We compared a frozen Mexican-style chicken grain bowl with both a frozen chicken burrito and a chicken burrito bowl from a chain restaurant and found big differences.



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