Comparing Fast Food Restaurants

Introduction

As we know that fast food are not good for health and they are worst option when losing weight. Therefore, at time people do not have choices rather than eating a fast food. Children usually want to go to fast food restaurant on their birthday and at time them starving for such happy meals. Hence, one can say that fast food has become last resort for each person as they offer similar meals to their customers and this has resulted in the obesity rate to be two-thirds of the adult population in United States. The main focus of this paper is to compare three top fast food chain of America.

Discussion According to the Food Research and Action Center, there is a strong correlation between rate of poverty and obesity. The interesting part of this comparison essay is that American three biggest fast food chains that are Burger King, Hardees and McDonald has concedes amazing results, this is not only concern with the healthier options but also in the nutrition of more or less of the options which mostly individuals will conceive are healthy.

Similar Menu-Items

Starting with the most common food ordered by people at the fast food restaurants is usually burgers. For instances, at McDonald's this burger would be Big Mac having large fries and a large glass of cola. As far as Hardees is concern, burger with 1/3 pound of cheese thick burger having large fries and large glass of cola is usually the item order by the people. Looking at the Burger King, the mea ordered by the people is commonly the Whopper having large fries and large glass of cola.

Looking at these menus, none of the food item is the best choice or best for health. Considering the McDonald meal or burger, the nutrition values comprises of big Mac of 540 calories, fats weight to 29 grams cholesterol weighting 75mg and lastly the whopping having 1040 mg of sodium. Hence, the average sodium that person can consume is 2400 mg per day. 500 calories is bear by the fries while, fat has 25 grams of calories along with the 350mg of sodium. Soda has 160 calories with 10 mg of sodium.

The total meal comprises of 1200 calories, fat of 79 grams and sodium of 1400mg. The meal offered by Hardees is much worse and inferior. The think burger comprises of 620 ...