{"id":27797,"date":"2010-08-11T17:18:01","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T22:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=27797"},"modified":"2010-08-16T15:03:56","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T20:03:56","slug":"dennys-diet-disaster-fried-cheese-melt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/dennys-diet-disaster-fried-cheese-melt\/","title":{"rendered":"Denny&#8217;s Diet Disaster: Fried Cheese Melt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Denny's Fried Cheese Melt Calories\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/dennys-diet-disaster-fried-cheese-melt\/\" target=\"_self\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-27799\" title=\"dennys-fried-cheese-melt\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/dennys-fried-cheese-melt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a>Neither mozzarella sticks nor grilled cheese sandwiches are particularly healthy or low calorie foods. But sicking the fried cheese into the fired sandwich means only one thing: <a title=\"diet disaster: worst foods\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/diet-disaster-carls-jr-footlong-cheeseburger\/\" target=\"_self\">diet disaster<\/a>. The sandwich will be appearing on Denny&#8217;s $2 $4 $6 $8 value menu starting August 24th.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant chain announced that the Fried Cheese Melt will cost $4.00, but has not released its caloric content. Here&#8217;s our best estimate, with data provided by <a title=\"Denny's Nutritional Info\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dennys.com\/LiveImages\/enProductImage_790.pdf\" target=\"_self\">Denny<\/a>&#8216;s:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> 750 calories for an 8-ounce serving of <a title=\"Denny's Endless Pancakes and Fries not a Healthy Idea\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/02\/dennys-endless-pancakes-and-fries-not-a-healthy-idea\/\" target=\"_self\">Denny&#8217;s<\/a> mozzarella sticks, without condiments (Denny&#8217;s does not disclose how many pieces they consider a serving)<\/li>\n<li>650 calories in Denny&#8217;s three cheese melt<\/li>\n<li>Totals 1,400 calories<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The meal will also come with a serving of fries, and a serving of marinara sauce. The french fries have 425 calories per 5-ounce serving, and the average 1\/2 cup of marinara sauce has 93 calories.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Our estimated calorie count for the meal is 1,918 calories. That&#8217;s about as many calories as one should eat per day. It&#8217;s not hard to imagine why <a title=\"Obesity Rises Faster than Ever\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/obesity-rises-faster-than-ever\/\" target=\"_self\">America has an obesity problem<\/a> when restaurants serve things like this an appropriate meal.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a title=\"Denny's Fried Cheese Melt Pushes Gooey Cheese Tolerance To New Levels\" href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/08\/dennys-fried-cheese-melt-pushes-gooey-cheese-tolerance-to-new-levels.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Consumerist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/slideshows\/most-unhealthy-fast-food-menu-items\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/media\/slideshow_images\/most-unhealthy-fast-food-menu-items\/burger_embed_image.jpg\" alt=\"View Most Unhealthy Fast Food Menu Items Slideshow\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neither mozzarella sticks nor grilled cheese sandwiches are particularly healthy or low calorie foods. But sicking the fried cheese into the fired sandwich means only one thing: diet disaster. The sandwich will be appearing on Denny&#8217;s $2 $4 $6 $8 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/dennys-diet-disaster-fried-cheese-melt\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3695],"tags":[2560,3020,29,724],"class_list":["post-27797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet-and-nutrition","tag-cheese","tag-dennys","tag-nutrition","tag-restaurants"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27797"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28251,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27797\/revisions\/28251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}