{"id":5577,"date":"2009-02-13T08:00:43","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=5577"},"modified":"2009-02-12T16:45:51","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T21:45:51","slug":"the-skinny-on-dunkin-donuts-ddsmart-menu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/02\/the-skinny-on-dunkin-donuts-ddsmart-menu\/","title":{"rendered":"The Skinny on Dunkin&#8217; Donuts DDSmart Menu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time to <em>stop<\/em> making the donuts. Instead, how about it&#8217;s time to make the 300 calorie or less egg white flatbread sandwiches? Dunkin&#8217; Donuts recently unveiled its new DDSmart menu, full of low-fat and low-calorie options like <a title=\"breakfast \" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/12\/breakfast-eaters-are-healthiest\/\" target=\"_self\">breakfast<\/a> sandwiches, coffee Coolatas with skim milk and reduced-fat blueberry muffins.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5578\" style=\"width: 340px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/category\/food-finds\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5578\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5578\" title=\"dunkin' donuts ddsmart menu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/dunkin-donuts.bmp\" alt=\"Dunkin Donuts Smart Menu\" width=\"330\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5578\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The DDSmart menu from Dunkin&#39; Donuts offers egg white flatbread sandwiches and fruit smoothies.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Similar to Starbucks, <a title=\"dunkin' donuts\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dunkindonuts.com\/aboutus\/BreakfastChoices\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dunkin&#8217; Donuts<\/a> is doing their best to appeal to those of us who love donuts and <a title=\"coffee\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/01\/new-coffee-perk-it-may-prevent-mental-disease\/\" target=\"_self\">coffee<\/a>, but can&#8217;t eat them everyday. So to keep up with America&#8217;s effort to trim our waistlines, Dunkin&#8217; Donuts has baked up some healthier breakfast and coffee options that won&#8217;t sabotage our daily calorie quota.\u00a0But\u00a0don&#8217;t worry, your favorite Bavarian Kreme donut isn&#8217;t going anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the new DDSmart menu:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Egg White Flatbread Sandwiches<\/strong>: These yummy and perfectly toasted sammies come in two flavors: veggie or <a title=\"turkey sausage\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/05\/food-find-honeysuckle-white-italian-turkey-sausage\/\" target=\"_self\">turkey sausage<\/a>. Each one contains less than 300 calories and 25% less fat than other breakfast sandwiches.<\/li>\n<li><strong>English Muffin Sandwiches<\/strong>:\u00a0You can nosh on\u00a0the\u00a0Dunkin&#8217; Donuts version of the Egg McMuffin for about 300 to 350 calories. These are served with a fluffy egg, slice of cheese and ham for the non-vegetarians.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Multigrain Bagel<\/strong>: With 16 grams of protein and 10 grams\u00a0fiber, it is nutritious, but it also\u00a0sports 400 calories.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reduced-fat Blueberry Muffin<\/strong>: Yes, it&#8217;s reduced fat, but this yummy pastry contains 450 calories and 10 grams of fat so you might want to split it with someone.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/category\/food-finds\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5585\" title=\"ddsmart\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/ddsmart.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Lite Lattes<\/strong>: Choose from a number of hot or iced coffee drinks made with skim milk and slurp up\u00a0only 25 to 70 calories for each small serving.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Coffee Coolatas<\/strong>:\u00a0This milkshake-java combination sports only 140 calories for a small made with skim milk. Yum!!!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reduced-Calorie Fruit Smoothies<\/strong>: These cool and tart options contains 25%\u00a0less sugar and calories than most fruit smoothies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I recently picked up a\u00a0Dunkin&#8217; Donuts\u00a0flatbread sandwich and Lite Latte. The flatbread tasted almost too decadent to be eating so early in the morning and for only 290 calories. I give it an enthusiastic thumbs up!<\/p>\n<p>With low-cal breakfast sandwiches, bagels packed with protein and lattes without the fat, maybe\u00a0Dunkin&#8217; Donuts&#8217; better-for-you choices really do keep you <a title=\"running\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/running-101\/\" target=\"_self\">running<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Noshing!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Try a DDSmart menu item for free! We&#8217;re giving one MyDIR member a Dunkin&#8217; Donuts $5.00 gift card. <a title=\"diet community\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/users\/register\/\" target=\"_self\">Sign-up for MyDIR<\/a> today to be eligible!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Dunkin&#8217; Donuts generously provided Heather with sample product, but this review is her own opinion and was not sponsored in any way. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time to stop making the donuts. Instead, how about it&#8217;s time to make the 300 calorie or less egg white flatbread sandwiches? Dunkin&#8217; Donuts recently unveiled its new DDSmart menu, full of low-fat and low-calorie options like breakfast sandwiches, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/02\/the-skinny-on-dunkin-donuts-ddsmart-menu\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3695],"tags":[328,19,889,888,20,29,38],"class_list":["post-5577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet-and-nutrition","tag-breakfast","tag-contests","tag-ddsmart","tag-dunkin-donuts","tag-food-finds","tag-nutrition","tag-product-reviews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5577","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5577"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5584,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5577\/revisions\/5584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}