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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Health & Fit­ness

Which is healthier - doubles or pie?

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I get it... I to­tal­ly get it.... your life is one mad rush, and that means you have to catch break­fast on the run. By now you've fig­ured out there's noth­ing more con­ve­nient than a pie or dou­bles for break­fast, but which is the bet­ter choice? Let's ex­am­ine the street break­fast fa­vorites: dou­bles, beef and aloo pies.

If you eat one dou­bles you will have in­gest­ed 345 calo­ries, 11.8 grams of­fat, 997.9 mg of sodi­um, 51 grams of carbs, two grams of fiber and 9.6 grams of pro­tein.Dou­bles has no cho­les­terol.

I know this, be­lieve it or not, be­cause you can ac­tu­al­ly Google the nu­tri­tion­al val­ue of dou­bles. Try Googling "Calo­ries in a Trinidad Dou­bles" and you'll pull up all of the nu­tri­tion­al in­for­ma­tion on Spark Recipeswhere Chef Meg Galvin de­vel­ops healthy recipes and tests recipes sent in to her web site.You can al­so find nu­tri­tion­al in­for­ma­tion on dou­bles at my­fit­ness­pal.com, dai­ly­burn.com and fat­se­cret.com – to name a few sites. I went with Meg's eval­u­a­tion.

Nu­tri­tion of­ten means what you shouldn't eat and that in­cludes food high in fat, cho­les­terol and sodi­um. You want low fat, high pro­tein and high fi­bre for a nu­tri­tious break­fast.The sodi­um in dou­bles is wor­ri­some, but oth­er­wise dou­bles stack up fair­ly well. You can find nu­tri­tion­al in­for­ma­tion for a beef pie at http://nu­tri­tion­da­ta.self.com/facts/beef-prod­ucts/6208/2.This site says a beef pie made with the lean­est beef – and your fresh-off-the-street-beef pie is prob­a­bly not made with the lean­est beef-has sev­en grams of fat, 21 mg of cho­les­terol, 19 mg of sodi­um, no fiber and four grams of pro­tein.The sodi­um count in this recipe proves a Tri­ni didn't make the pie in that study!

There's no In­ter­net in­for­ma­tion on an aloo pie, but here you're most­ly get­ting high carbs and high fat if the pota­toes are fried. To make a long sto­ry short, dou­bles wins this bat­tle of the nu­tri­tious break­fast on the go.There's no cho­les­terol, but there's high pro­tein and less fat than a pie.Throw in some nice cu­cum­ber, man­go or tamarind chut­ney and you even have some sem­blance of a fruit or veg­etable for break­fast.


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