Apologies if you’re on a diet… because you’re about to break every single last rule and order a burger after you finish reading this.
Every year the American Centre for Science in the Public Interest does a routine check of the top 200 chain restaurants in the US and ranks their unhealthiest meals based on calories, fat, sodium and sugar content.
After some close examination (and we’re thinking a sample or two along the way), the panel select nine of the most calorific meals for their annual Xtreme Eating awards.
So what is the unhealthiest meal in America?
The title goes to the Red Robin Gourmet Burger Monster Meal, available at each and every one of their 470 outlets.
So how is that burger divinely made? The A1 Peppercorn comes with ‘hardwood-smoked bacon, melted Pepper-Jack, A.1. Peppercorn Spread, tomatoes and crispy onion straws’ and you can add in an extra burger for just two dollars.
No burger meal would be complete without fries, so you can add in a bottomless portion (warning – you WILL keep eating them.)
Then comes the milkshake – a Monster Salted Caramel Milkshake, for just $4, or an extra $1 to make it refillable too.
The double burger weighs in at 1,670 calories, (more than two third of the recommended 2,000 calorie daily allowance for a woman.)
One serving of the fries, so long as you don’t get it refilled, is 370 calories and the shake adds 1,500 calories, otherwise known as a jiggle to the hips.
That totals 3,540 calories in one meal. And, according to the report it also include 69 grams of saturated fat, four days’ worth of sodium (6,280 milligrams) and 38 teaspoons of sugar.
To burn off the calories contained in the meal would require a 12-hour brisk walk.
What’s worse? We REALLY want to try that burger.
