Panera Bread Nutrition Facts

Panera bread is a chain of bakery and fodd outlets with nearly one thousand three hundred and sixty two outlets. Majority of these outlets are franchisees and the remaining are totally owned by the Panera Company. This company and its products have earned great loyal following among its patrons and customers. It has lived up to its reputation by getting awarded in the the best facilites and best healthy restaurants categories.

Panera produces a wide variety of breads and also has a range of bread products made from the in-house produced breads. The menu includes a long list of sandwiches, bagels, pastries, spreads, salads, souffl?s, parfaits etc.

The basic sandwiches say for example a Tuna salad sandwich has a serving amount of three hundred and thirty five grams.It contains not only the tuna, but also eggs, soy, milk and wheat as other additional ingredients. The vegetables added are lettuce leaves, onions and tomatoes. The total energy gained is around seven hundred and fifty calories, with the majority almost sixty percent of the energy coming from the fat content. The fat content is forty seven grams and the saturated fat is nine grams. The sodium content is a huge amount of one thousand one hundred and thirty milligrams, which puts the figure exceeding a gram. The carbohydrate content is around sixty four grams and the sugar content is around thirteen grams.

The beneficial items included in this Tuna salad are proteins around twenty grams, Vitamin A around twenty percent of the recommended daily allowance, Vitamin C around fifteen percent of the recommended daily allowance, iron around twenty five percent of the recommended daily allowance, calcium around eight percent and fiber around six grams.

Panera breads also offer a healthy option of breads made from whole wheat grains. The Whole grain bagel is an excellent health option, especially for those watching their weight or those people on a weight reduction diet. A single serving amount is only one hundred and thirty one grams and offers around three hundred and seventy kilo calories. The total fat is merely three and a half gram and the total energy gained from the fat is limited to just thirty kilo calories. Though the trans fat is completely absent, yet there is sodium around four hundred and twenty milligrams and sugar around five grams. It provides almost twenty percent of the recommended daily value of iron. Vitamins are absent with calcium around four percent of the daily recommended values.

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