The 7 Best And Worst Baked Foods That You Can Get At A Coffee Shop

Most baked Foods (even the healthy looking made with nuts and seeds) are full of refined flour and sugar, and completely devoid of fiber, protein, vitamins and minerals. And the baked foods you get from coffee shops or restaurants are usually much worse than homemade efforts, partly because they come in huge portions, but also because they are often loaded with additives to improve the texture, color and shelf life.
We get it, though: Sometimes, nothing is sufficient, but a warm baked good right from the display. But you can still save hundreds of calories and dozens of grams of sugar by choosing some sort of goodie over another. Here are 7 deals with preventing and make something better swaps in place.

SKIP: Cinnamon roll

Ooey sticky mat cinnamon rolls are the grandfather of bad foods for you. Some fast-food types really top 1000 calories, start with 75 grams of sugar. Even the more modest roles country around 500 to 600 calories a roll-still ridiculously high for a single bite.

SMARTER SWAP: Cookie

Generally, cookies have fewer calories and less sugar than cinnamon rolls. There are only two important exceptions to the rule: the use of cookies with icing on the top, and cookies that are as big as plates. Choose a naked, pretty cookie (about 3 cm), and it will likely be less than 300 calories and less than 25 grams of sugar. A good choice: Gingerbread cookies at Au Bon Pain, with 210 calories and 11 grams of total sugars. (Snack AND Lose Weight with this box of Prevention-approved treats of Donated.)
SKIP: puff pastry and syrupy

Do your best to resist this combination of puff pastry and syrupy sweet fruit (or cheese). this can be found in restaurants and cafes has more than 300 calories, while some reach up to 450. Plus, they provide about 20 grams of sugar. (Try these 10 low-sugar desserts that really your sweet spot.

SMARTER SWAP: Plain croissant

What makes flaky croissants so big? Their rock-bottom sugar. We investigated croissant selection of just about every major chain, and there is not a nice crescent which there are more than 6 grams of sugar. Just try it croissant at Panera Bread: It has 300 calories and 6 grams of sugar. Plus, the chain refuses artificial colorings, flavorings and over a hundred other potentially unsafe additives.
SKIP: Scone

Chain bakery scones regularly clock up 500 calories or more, while some have an astonishing 47 grams of sugar. That is almost twice the recommended daily limit!

SMARTER SWAP: Biscotti

Even when biscotti is as big as a baseball bat, it's usually a better choice than a scone. Smaller packaged versions found on the register is only 150 calories, while the larger ones, such as Cosi's Amaretto Cookies, a larger (but still reasonable) a total of 240 calories. (Così no sugar statistics for the desserts at this time.)

SKIP: Pecan pie

True, pecans are packed with protein and healthy fats, but it's hard to stomach the average number of calories in a slice of pecan pie restaurant: 541, according to USDA data. (That is, together with a whopping 33 grams of sugar.) Bottom line: do not use the nutritional value of raw pecans as an excuse to choose this intensely sweet dessert.

SMARTER SWAP: apple pie (or fresh)
Lose your shows about 300 calories and 12 grams of sugar when you choose a fruit-based dessert instead of a nutty one, the Department of Agriculture nutrition database. Just avoid added ice cream, sauces, whipped cream, which can quickly undo saving calories. It's not exactly pie, but Cinnamon Apple Crisp served at Seasons 52 (one of our favorite sit-down restaurants for real food) is quite close, and it has only 240 calories, 12 grams fat, and 23 grams of sugar.

SKIP: Muffin

Muffins can occur as a health food when they contain ingredients such as roots, berries, flax and bran. But you've probably heard of these cakes described as "glorified cake" -and that nickname is so deserved. The MINISTRY calculates that the average large blueberry muffin (because have you ever seen a coffee shop sells nothing but great!) Has 521 calories, 44 grams of sugar, and a paltry 1.5 grams of fiber.

SMARTER SWAP: Plain donut
Sounds crazy, but this is actually a no-brainer. The average flat glass yeast donut has only 269 calories, which is 252 less than the giant muffin. And do not stop there: Donuts also about 30 grams less sugar. Of course, you have to say no to creamy fillings and sweet glaze and add hundreds of calories to return to decent donut base. Dunkin 'Donuts' ordinary glass is a better-than-average pick with 260 calories, 14 grams fat, and 12 grams of sugar.

SKIP: Cheesecake

Some chains serve cheesecake slices with more than 1300 calories. A 150 pound woman would have performed for more than 2 hours burning that amount of energy. Eating more than half of the calories you need in a day in a dessert? No thanks.

SMARTER SWAP: Ice
No, it's not a good fried, but ice delivers the creamy texture and sweet satisfaction of cheesecake, for a fraction of the calories) and you can order a spoon in a restaurant. A cup of vanilla (two ½-cup servings) has 273 calories and 28 grams of sugar. There's even 17% of your daily calcium requirements. Try this recipe and make your own ice cream at home

SKIP: Cupcake

Cupcakes available at national chains can be up to 400 calories-no surprise, given the mountain of butter, sweet cherry sitting on top.