8 Healthiest Salad Dressings for Weight Loss
Salads make a healthy foundation for any diet — but it’s all too easy to block their nutritional punch by drizzling on the wrong salad dressing . At the same time, to keep you in love with lettuce, you want choices that tantalize your taste buds, says Judy Caplan, RD, author of GoBeFull: Eight Keys to Healthy Living and a dietitian in private practice in Vienna, Va. Although it’s always an option to whip up healthy dressings at home, it is also easy enough to find a healthy, tasty store-bought kind — if you read nutritional labels carefully. Caplan generally recommends buying dressings with fewer than 45 calories per tablespoon (and measuring your portions carefully), though she'll go above that limit if it's for the right healthy fat. She says it is also equally important to watch out for fat and added sugars — fewer than 5 grams of sugar per serving is best. For a healthy shopping shortcut, pick up one of these eight store-bought dressings. Wish-Bone Salad Spr...