Think your salad is healthy? Here’s how hidden calories can affect your diet

An Australian dietician recently uploaded a picture of two seemingly identical salads on Instagram. One salad contained just 535 calories, while the other contained 995 calories. Here’s the difference.

People often think of a diet as a specific weight-loss plan, but diet is simply the types and amount of food we eat. Even a salad can go from a diet meal to a full-blown diet disaster, with the additions of toppings like grains, cheese, and dressing. One dietician showed just how hard it can be to tell the difference.

Australian dietician Paula Norris recently uploaded a picture of two seemingly identical salads on her Instagram. While both looked delicious, one salad contained just 535 calories, while the other contained 995 calories. The dietician then wrote down the salad discrepancies and how the calories sneak into the one on the left.

The salad on the right contains ½ cup of cooked pearl barley, 35g of halloumi cheese, 2/3 of a courgette, five florets of broccoli, ½ pepper, 100g of aubergine, five cherry tomatoes, 100g of poached chicken, 1/2 cup of herbs, and dressing made of two teaspoons of balsamic vinegar and two teaspoons of seeded mustard.

It is important to know how hidden calories can sabotage you, when you are trying to stick to a diet and eat healthily.

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