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When a restaurant is named The Cheesecake Factory it’s no surprise that many of its dishes are the opposite of light, healthy meals. And a loaded sweet potato at Texas Roadhouse is clearly not the side dish worthy of a physician’s recommendation.
Those chains and others are called out in the Center for Science in the Public Interest’s Xtreme Eating Awards, unveiled each summer as the group tries to get Americans to realize the amount of calories, cholesterol, saturated fat, sugar and sodium they’re consuming when they dine out.
The Cheesecake Factory’s Pasta Napoletana was named CSPI’s worst pasta. The dish — sausage, pepperoni, meatball, mushrooms, peppers, bacon, onions and garlic in tomato sauce served over parmesan cream pasta — has 2,310 calories, 79 grams of saturated fat and 4,370 milligrams of sodium, CSPI said. It says eating the entire entree is like having a Pizza Hut Meat Lover’s Personal Pan Pizza topped with three cups of pasta and a cup of heavy cream. Cheesecake Factory’s Flying Gorilla drink made the list as well; CSPI said the chocolate banana milkshake with dark chocolate and banana liqueur packs 950 calories, 26 grams of saturated fat, and an estimated 60 grams of added sugar.
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