{"id":349181,"date":"2010-02-22T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T14:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10002382"},"modified":"2010-02-22T00:36:46","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T05:36:46","slug":"some-believe-subway-can-be-diet-food-almost-no-one-trusts-taco-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/349181","title":{"rendered":"Some Believe Subway Can Be Diet Food, Almost No One Trusts Taco Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/subway-thumb-158x118-37257.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s en vogue for fast food companies to section off portions of their menus as &#8220;the healthy section,&#8221; but the label doesn&#8217;t convince many diners of the fact that the grub can be part of an effective weight-loss diet.<\/p>\n<p>Decision Analyst&#8217;s research shows <a href=\"http:\/\/www.decisionanalyst.com\/publ_data\/2010\/FastFoodTrust.dai\">more people trust Subway<\/a> than any other fast food joint when it comes to these pseudo-healthy claims, although only 24 percent of people buy the claims.<\/p>\n<p>Taco Bell came up on the short end of companies surveyed, garnering the trust of only 7.5 percent of those surveyed.<\/p>\n<p>From the report:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Subway owns the nutritional claim relative to its competition, as there is a significant gap between Subway and these other popular fast food\/quick-service restaurants. In fact, Subway is the only one of these restaurants with more people who &#8216;completely trust&#8217; their nutritional claims than &#8217;do not trust&#8217; them. This finding illustrates the challenges and opportunities facing restaurants in their quest to gain greater acceptance of their health and nutrition efforts,&#8221; said Diane Brewton, Senior Vice President of the Market Intelligence Division at Decision Analyst.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve managed to lose weight by eating fast food &#8212; not counting food poisoning &#8212; let us know.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.decisionanalyst.com\/publ_data\/2010\/FastFoodTrust.dai\">Subway&#8217;s Nutritional Claims Are the &#8220;Most Trusted&#8221; by Consumers<\/a> [Decision Analyst via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwire.com\/press-release\/Among-Fast-Food-Restaurants-Subways-Nutritional-Claims-Are-Most-Trusted-Consumers-According-1115457.htm\">Marketwire<\/a>]<br \/>\n<i>(Thanks, NORMLgirl!)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s en vogue for fast food companies to section off portions of their menus as &#8220;the healthy section,&#8221; but the label doesn&#8217;t convince many diners of the fact that the grub can be part of an effective weight-loss diet. Decision Analyst&#8217;s research shows more people trust Subway than any other fast food joint when it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4514,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4514"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}