Top 10 Guilty Restaurant Pleasures

Smart Indulgence #9: Hot wings

Wings are one of those foods that fluctuate widely between reasonable and ridiculous. Although the meat is relatively lean, the skin-to-meat ratio is extremely high, and cost-cutting restaurants typically prefer the deep fryer to the oven rack. But done right, wings can be a solid source of protein, and as an appetizer, they’re a good way to blunt your hunger before you start in on more damaging foods. Worried you’ll eat too many? Make them as hot as you can stand. That will keep you from devouring the full dozen, and the capsaicins in the hot sauce will boost your metabolism.

Eat This!

Kentucky Fried Chicken Hot Wings (5)

350 calories
20 g fat (2.5 g saturated)
700 mg sodium

Not That!

Pizza Hut Crispy Bone In Wings Buffalo Medium (5)

575 calories
37.5 g fat (7.5 g saturated)
2,525 mg sodium