So by themselves, they aren’t too bad but depending on your meal these sweet treats could push your overall total into the high territory. There are 440 calories in a Chick-fil-A Chicken Biscuit. All three are under 400 mg of sodium and in the case of the cookie, that value is only 210 mg. The three lowest sodium counts are the Chocolate Chunk Cookie, the Vanilla Milkshake, and the Chocolate Milkshake. Most of the treats at Chick-fil-A have moderate sodium content.
Honey Roasted BBQ Sauce: 75 mg – LOW SODIUM WINNER!. Here’s the sodium content for Chick-fil-A’s lineup of dipping sauces: Let’s just say doing research for this article was eye-opening. That, by the way, would add 780 mg of buffalo flavored sodium to a 1400 mg sandwich for a whopping total of 2,180 mg of salt for a single meal. I’d put two packets on my chicken sandwich. However, prior to my stroke, I used to be a huge fan of their Zesty Buffalo Sauce. Your author is not a member of the Polynesian Sauce Brigade. Heck, the Polynesian Sauce lovers are practically a cult. Part of the fun of a Chick-fil-A meal is the dipping sauces. Chick-fil-A Waffle Potato Fries®: Small 190 mg, and Medium 240 mg. Sunflower Multigrain Bagel with Cream Cheese: 460 mg. Greek Yogurt Parfait (with cookie crumbs or granola): 85 mg. The Avocado will add 520 mg of sodium to your salad while the Salsa piles on 630 mg of salt. Watch out for the Avocado Lime Ranch Dressing and the Creamy Salsa Dressing as they are salt monsters hiding in plain sight. Their lowest sodium salad dressings are Light Balsamic Vinaigrette Dressing (360 mg) and Fat-Free Honey Mustard Dressing (330 mg). That plate registers only 160 mg of sodium meaning you can splurge on some dressing. That only has 490 mg of sodium.īetter yet, order the grilled market salad with no chicken. That’s worse than the chicken sandwich! So stick to the Cobb Salad with no chicken. For example, the Cobb Salad with Nuggets has 1700 mg of sodium. Well, at Chick-fil-A there’s a way to ruin that healthy meal. Why are we looking at salads? One normally thinks about salads as a healthy option. Grilled Chicken Sandwich = 680 mg (lose the bread and you’ll lower that number). Grilled Nuggets: 4 count = 220 mg, 6 count = 330 mg, 8 count = 440 mg. That number fluctuates slightly based on your selection of sauce (read on to find a personal epiphany from your author).īut does that mean it is impossible to eat low sodium at Chick-fil-A? Absolutely not! You can find a few low(er) salt items on the Chick-fil-A menu, you just have to look a bit deeper. Add medium fries and one of their dipping sauces to that sandwich and the total balloons to approximately 1,840 mg. It’s slightly lower in calories from fat. 
The Grilled Chicken Sandwich features lettuce and tomato on a multigrain bun. Their flagship item, the Chick-fil-A® Chicken Sandwich clocks in at a whopping 1400 mg of sodium. However, Chick-fil-A does offer some options lower in carbs or fat. Well, they definitely invented one mighty salty chicken sandwich. “We didn’t invent the chicken, just the chicken sandwich.” That’s the slogan of Atlanta-based Chick-fil-A. What are the best menu options to eat low sodium at Chick-fil-A? 180 of those 440 calories come from fat, and 192 are from carbohydrates.Image: Chick-fil-A YOUR GUIDE TO EATING LOW SODIUM AT CHICK-FIL-A There are 440 calories in a Chick-fil-A Chicken Biscuit. “It just hugs the chicken,” says Jonson, a Chick-fil-A employee who has been working at the chicken chain since 1999.Īccording to Jonson, the recipe has been the same since 1985, with only one change, and that was trans fats removal because of customer feedback. The biscuit is flaky and tender, but strong enough to hold on to the chicken. They wanted to sell chicken fillet sandwiches for breakfast, and the biscuit helped them succeed in the breakfast category. Launched in 1985, Chick-fil-A’s Chicken Biscuit sandwich was part of a plan to offer the great taste of the chain’s chicken throughout the entire day.
Handmade from scratch and cooked in 100 percent peanut oil, this hand-breaded, perfectly seasoned boneless breast of chicken comes sandwiched between a buttermilk biscuit, and it only has 440 calories.
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