Not everyone feels up to making a breakfast every morning, and you may not always have grab-and-go food items on hand. In these situations, you may find yourself Googling the closest drive-thru and wondering what the healthiest fast food breakfast options are. Plenty of fast food restaurants serve healthy breakfasts, especially if you're comparing the nutritional value to their more traditional fare.
Here, dietitians share their go-to healthy fast food breakfasts. TODAY.com nutrition editor and registered dietitian Natalie Rizzo is a fan of some of Starbucks' breakfast menu items.
Her No. 1 pick for a healthy fast food breakfast is the . "Add fresh blueberries, nuts, dried fruit and as little or as much added sugar as you want," she says.
"I like that it’s a quick and easy whole-grain meal with fiber that you can customize." Here are some other healthy fast food breakfasts, also chosen by dietitians. The comes with either granola or cookie crumbs, which have similar nutritional values.
The granola offers slightly more protein, but it also has more sugar, fat and calories overall. The parfait is made with fresh fruit, where most of the health benefit comes from. If you’re after a breakfast that’s packed with protein, pick up the for a whopping 27 grams.
Inside the English muffin, you’ll find grilled chicken, egg whites and melted cheese. It has 7 grams of fat and 300 calories. To lower that number, you can always get it without the bread.
You can easily customize this .