Healthy Salad Dressing

Salad is a popular food for health conscious people and vegetarians. The thing about salad that shy many people away is its plain natural flavors. This problem is easily solve by adding seasonings, sauces and salad dressings. Salad dressing is the most popular of the three but many of them are unhealthy. Most salad dressings contain saturated fat, refined sugar, preservatives (possibly MSG) and artificial flavors. Even the fat free salad dressings are not good for you because they contain little nutrients and are full of preservatives. By adding these types of dressing to salads, people are turning their fresh healthy salads into toxic unhealthy salads. Luckily, there are alternative salad dressings that are healthier. Below are some tips on how to choose healthier salad dressings.

Healthy salad dressing tips

• Choose salad dressing without oil or a vinegar-based dressing, such as Balsamic.
• Use citrus juice or other fruit juice instead of salad dressing, make sure they are organic.
• Use organic vegetable sauce instead of salad dressing, tomato sauce is a popular one.
• Read the ingredient label, if it contains unhealthy fats, refined sugar, MSG and preservatives, avoid it.
• Make your own salad dressing by using natural ingredients. Please visit newenglandrecipes.com or allaboutfasting.com for more details. For best results, use only organic ingredients.

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