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Healthy Choice Cafe Steamers Sweet & Sour Chicken

Healthy Choice Cafe Steamers Sweet & Sour Chicken

per 1 meal (283 g):
62g
net carbs
8g
fats
12g
protein
390
calories

Is Healthy Choice Cafe Steamers Sweet & Sour Chicken Keto?

Healthy Choice Cafe Steamers Sweet & Sour Chicken is not keto-friendly because it is a high-carb processed food that contains unhealthy ingredients like sugar, canola oil, and enriched flour.

Too Much Carbs!

Healthy Choice Cafe Steamers Sweet & Sour Chicken should be avoided on keto because it is very high in net carbs (21.91g of net carbs per 100g serving).

It is important to limit your net carb consumption to 20g - 30g per day to stay in ketosis. You can calculate your ideal daily net carb allowance by using this keto macros calculator.

As an alternative, you may look for other frozen meals that are low in net carbs.

Contains High-Glycemic Sweeteners

Healthy Choice Cafe Steamers Sweet & Sour Chicken contains high-glycemic sweeteners like sugar and juice concentrate. These sweeteners can raise your blood sugar level and prevent you from reaching ketosis.

As an alternative, you may look for other frozen meals that use keto-friendly sweeteners like stevia, monk fruit, or erythritol.

You can check out our full list of best and worst sweeteners for keto here.

Contains Highly Refined Oils

Healthy Choice Cafe Steamers Sweet & Sour Chicken contains highly refined canola oil and soybean oil. These refined oils are prone to oxidation and may cause inflammation in the body.

Highly refined oils are usually extracted using high heat and chemicals. This process strips out the nutrients from the oil and replaces them with harmful chemicals.

It is important to get your fats from healthy sources so your body can burn clean fuel while on ketosis. You may check out our list of best and worst oils for keto here.

Contains Harmful Food Additives

Healthy Choice Cafe Steamers Sweet & Sour Chicken contains enriched flour and modified starch which are included in our list of food additives to avoid for keto.

Food additives are potentially harmful to health and should be avoided as much as possible.

Most of your diet should come from minimally processed foods to achieve a healthy weight loss on keto.

Net Carb Calculator

Healthy Choice Cafe Steamers Sweet & Sour Chicken
62 g
net carbs
65 g
carbs
3 g
fiber / sugar alcohol
8 g
fats
12 g
protein
390
calories

Ingredients Checker

Ingredients

Cooked Rice (Water, White Rice), Chicken Breast Fritters (Cooked Chicken [Chicken Breast, Water, Modified Corn Starch, Salt, Potassium Chloride, Potassium Phosphate], Batter [Water, Bleached Wheat Flour, Yellow Corn Flour, Leavening {Sodium Bicarbonate, Sodium Aluminum Phosphate}, Whey, Salt, Whole Eggs, Guar Gum], Predust [Enriched Wheat Flour {Wheat Flour, Niacin, Ferrous Sulfate (Iron), Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid}, Soybean Oil, Salt, Natural Flavor]), Water, Red And Green Bell Peppers, Sugar, Onion, Pineapple, Pineapple Juice Concentrate, Contains 2% Or Less Of: Rice Vinegar, Modified Corn Starch, Soy Sauce (Water, Wheat, Soybeans, Salt, Alcohol, Vinegar, Lactic Acid), Garlic, Tomato Paste, Salt, Cooking Wine (White Wine, Natural Flavor, Salt), Ginger, Canola Oil, Chili Paste (Red Chili Peppers, Distilled Vinegar, Salt, Xanthan Gum), Citric Acid

Non-Keto Sweeteners

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Juice Concentrate

Highly-Refined Oils

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Harmful Food Additives

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