Spring Pea Salad with Strawberries
Spring Pea Salad with Strawberries
Spring Pea Salad with Strawberries
Spring Pea Salad with Strawberries
It’s nice to have a homemade salad dressing on hand, but c’mon, life gets busy and the convenience of store-bought salad dressings sometimes wins. But with the right dressing, you can take a plate of greens from dull to delightful. Here’s how to pick a healthy salad dressing at the grocery store that doesn’t undo the work of those veggies.
Pictured Recipe: Spring Pea Salad with Strawberries
1. Forget Fat-Free Salad Dressing
The promise that “fat-free” is better for you is really outdated science. Research shows that your body needs some fat to absorb the healthy nutrients in veggies. To make matters worse, low-fat dressings often replace the lost flavor from fat with extra sugar.
2. Keep an Eye on Sugar
It can be really hard to find a salad dressing without sugar. A touch of sweet is sometimes needed to balance the tang, but bottled dressings can have way too much. We found some with over 2 teaspoons (8 grams) of added sugar per 2-tablespoon serving. That’s like pouring syrup on your salad. That said, you may want to pass up dressings labeled “sugar-free” if you want to skip artificial sweeteners.
3. Additives to Avoid
Dressings can have a long list of additives, ranging from benign thickeners, like xanthan gum, to questionable food dyes and downright unhealthy hydrogenated oils. With a little searching, you can find ones with clean ingredient lists. When in doubt, the cleanest dressings are ususally the ones with the shortest ingredient lists.
Dressings We Love
Marie’s Yogurt RanchDrew’s Shiitake GingerMarie’s Chunky Blue CheeseTrader Joe’s Romano CaesarStonewall Kitchen Olive Oil & BalsamicBragg Vinaigrette
Numbers to Look For
Serving Size: 2 Tbsp.
Amount Per Serving
Sodium = 200mg Sugar = 3g Fat > 0g
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Serving Size:
2 Tbsp.
Sodium
= 200mg
Sugar
= 3g
Fat
0g
