If you’ve shopped at the deli and picked up one of the Asian Chicken Wraps you might have wondered how healthy, or rather not healthy, eating that sandwich was for you. Well, wonder no more because I’ve got all of the nutritional information for you. The good news is that it might not be quite as horrible calorie-wise as you thought (but it’s definitely not low), and it does have some redeeming nutritional value in the way of protein, vitamin A, and iron. Of course, if you look at the sodium numbers you might not get past that, from the shock that one serving of this has more than 50% of your RDA for sodium!
How healthy is this wrap?
I also want to point out that when you buy these at Costco what is in the container is 4 servings, not just two like you might assume. You only get one of the wrap sections in a serving. Unfortunately, the nutritional information also includes the dressing and I imagine that is where a lot of the fat and sodium, as well as a fair amount of calories, are located because the wrap itself doesn’t have anything in it that I think would account for that (at least not that I can remember) since it is mostly chicken, lettuce, cabbage and shredded carrots.
| Chinese Chicken Salad Wrap & Dressing (Item#: 35404) |
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| Serving Size: | 1/2 Wrap, 1/4 dressing (242g/8.6oz) |
| Calories | 480 |
| Calories From Fat | 220 |
| Total Fat | 25 g (38%) |
| Saturated Fat | 8 g (40%) |
| Trans Fat | 1 g |
| Cholesterol | 55 mg (18%) |
| Sodium | 1240 mg (52%) |
| Total Carbohydrate | 44 g (15%) |
| Dietary Fiber | 3 g (13%) |
| Sugars | 14 g |
| Protein | 22 g |
| Vitamin A | 20% |
| Vitamin C | 0% |
| Calcium | 15% |
| Iron | 45% |
| Polyunsaturated Fat | 7 g |
| Monounsaturated Fat | 8 g |
| Thiamin | 15% |
| Riboflavin | 20% |
| Niacin | 35% |
| Folate | 25% |
| Percent daily values (DV) based on a 2,000 calorie diet. | |
I have added the nutritional information for the Chinese Chicken Wrap to my Costco Calories spreadsheet on Google. Anyone with or without a Google login can view this spreadsheet to find nutritional information for the 16″ pizzas, cakes, and bagels made by Costco. This wrap is on the tab for ‘Misc Items’.
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Chris //
2009.08.08 at 3:01 am
Wow! Look at the sodium. Eat one whole wrap or 2 servings and you max out on your daily sodium intake. Makes me thirsty just thinking about it.
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Leslie //
2009.08.11 at 7:52 pm
They really should do the dressing and the wrap separately, but I’m assuming the sodium is in the dressing. Yeah, I have high bp, that thing would probably kill me!!
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kathy //
2010.06.03 at 6:33 pm
One half of the wrap itself (just the spinach wrap) has about 230g of sodium. Still, that’s typical of wraps/tortillas.
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Oregon Sue //
2011.07.29 at 8:50 pm
Kimberly, I am totally addicted to these yummy wraps. I can make the wrap but the dressing is eluding me. Any ideas or contacts to get the recipe? It’s soooooooooooooooooo good and would be good on a lot of other things too… pasta salad, crockpot chicken, etc. Please let me know if you have contacts for the recipe or can pound out some ideas. I know it’s got sesame oil in it, some vinegar (white balasamic?), garlic, maybe a touch of hoisin sauce? Ideas?
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Kimberly //
2011.08.02 at 3:41 am
@Oregon Sue – Sorry, I don’t have a clue on the dressing either. I do remember it was really delicious though. I’ve never tried getting a recipe from Costco for something like this, but I could try pinging them to see if they have any information they can/will pass along. Unfortunately, they don’t have these wraps here in the UK so I can’t even try to get one and reverse engineer it.
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Oregon Sue //
2011.08.02 at 6:45 am
Ok, Kimberly, I’m going to work on this dressing… will let you know what I come up with. Thanks.
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Tan //
2011.10.07 at 11:18 am
Thanks for the info. The high sodium is not a surprised. I just try to use as little dressing as I can.
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marie //
2011.11.02 at 5:12 pm
I just eat the wrap never the dressing so its half of every thing
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Bonnie //
2012.01.07 at 3:01 pm
Try (Paul) Newman’s Own Light Sesame Ginger salad dressing with Flat Out Light 90 calorie wraps to keep the calories down without sacrificing flavor on the Chinese chicken wraps that you do at home.