What To Order At Panda Express - With Menu Review

flavor city family what is up i am about to enter panda express and continue the theme of fast food reviews wish me luck knock on wood this one's going to be tough because the stuff in panda express is not pretty they use a lot of sugar a lot of flavor enhancers and one thing is interesting about panda it'll say inside that you don't use msg stick around a couple minutes and i'll tell you why that might be slightly controversial but the good news is we are going to find something for you to get that is slightly healthier at panda express so less talking more eating let's go do our thing we have successfully ordered everything from panda express we got to start with the granddaddy of them all check it out brad original orange chicken raise your hand if you were guilty of eating this back in the day brad right of course right it's crispy it's buttery it's sweet i mean this is everything your taste buds crave and more let's grab a piece of this crispy chicken here oh yeah i bet oh come on my taste buds are partying right now super crispy sweet touch of um chili there it's really really nice but we got to break out the notes here so we'll start with something interesting the amount of sugar maybe in the orange chicken could be the highest on the menu why put this tossed in that orange sweet sauce in one serving of orange chicken there's 19 grams of sugar i will give them some credit it's actual cane sugar they're not using high fructose corn syrup or corn syrup so that's kind of impressing but 19 grams of sugar my friends is just about just shy of five teaspoons so imagine five white teaspoons of sugar in here to me that's a little high that's like orange chicken with the side of type two diabetes just a little high right but when brad and i were doing research for this video there's an asterisk on a lot of these ingredients or dishes that says this dish uses a proprietary batter and sauce and it basically says we ain't gonna tell you everything that's in there but it has something like wheat flour eggs spices and the sauce has something like water and sugar and soy sauce but what are the other ingredients right it could be flavor enhancers i'm going to show you later on so i wish i knew the other secret sauce ingredients and does anyone else think it's criminal that they don't have to list the ingredients i know some places like burger king don't put the ingredients shake shack don't put the ingredients there's nothing proprietary about your orange chicken sauce i'm not gonna go rip it off and make my own bobby's version at home so don't worry about it so that's a little concerning but to me what i see the most concerning part is the sugar at 19 grams but man the amount of sugar in there for me it's a little too much but it is really really tasty but i would just say no to that one fried rice i love fried rice i have multiple recipes for fried rice and our new cookbook i have wild rice fried rice i have keto cauliflower fried rice and i love it because of the specks of soft scrambled eggs and the vegetables mmm they cook a good rice there short grain rice fluffy not too wet and soggy and the flavor is actually really good as i spill it all over myself the thing is i was a little shocked to see this if i break out my notes here you normally wouldn't see journalist bobby have that many red highlighter yellow highlighters on a fried rice but if we look here i'm to be honest for fast food i'm a hundred percent fine with almost every ingredient in there but you know when you go inside of um panda express and you see on the little uh the window there no msg well my friends look at two ingredients here under the fried rice disodium enosinate and disodium guayamulate the only reason why i know those are other forms of msg is because i've seen them in other fast food joints and i've done the research so sure they're not using the monosodium glutamate right the msg but they are using another form of msg called disodium inosinate or disodium guanuli they're putting that in fried rice fried rice is delicious on its own the thing about these things they're called excitogens their main job is to excite your taste buds send the signal to your brain saying this is good i want to eat more so yes they're technically not using msg but they're using its cousin in the form of those two things so i would say no to that you're going to want to stick with the plain white rice or brown rice but i'll tell you why there's one surprise ingredient in there in a second so that's a little bit of a bummer before i go on to a main dish here maybe the chow mein uh let's give a shout out to my boys over at seed they're consistently uh mentioned in these fast food review videos because if you're eating this kind of food you probably need a little help when it comes to gut health and to be honest everyone needs some help because your gut health and your microbiome in my opinion is the backbone to your health the thing is i've done 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have that texture and to be honest there's chicken thighs there's a little bit of sugar in there soy sauce soybean oil but there's none of those flavor enhancers none of those other names for msg the sugar isn't as high as other options and there's no nasty preservatives so grilled chicken would probably be my go to maine and then i'll tell you which rice to pair it with in a second but we gotta go with this beijing beef i don't know brad look at that it almost looks like beijing fried chicken feet it doesn't look like the most appealing thing right it does it looks like those chicken feet that are deep fried beijing beef has some looks like napa cabbage in there super fruit oh man super fried coated in that sauce to be honest that could be a leather shoe and i wouldn't know it's coated into so much batter and so much sweet sauce that is cleanly sweet hold on spin drip it can honestly be anything battered and fried and i wouldn't know that that is not good in my opinion and not good also is i misspoke earlier i said that the orange chicken had the most sugar on the menu i'm sorry it's now been beat by the beijing beef which comes in at a whopping 24 grams of sugar luckily well it's sugar and high fructose corn syrup so it's both that is six teaspoons of sugar in here i'm sorry if i ate another piece my taste buds would be blown out of the water that is insane but unlike the orange chicken they do have a bunch of nasty ingredients and flavor enhancers in here in the form of sodium benzoate and potassium sorbate two very nasty preservatives you only normally see in cheap lunch meat and cheap bacon bradley's favorite yellow number five and red number 40 right banned in other countries but we do it here because the fda uh generally regards it as safe but as we're learning generally regarded as safe is only the company's job to hire their own scientists to determine if it's safe and the fda doesn't even care or have to enforce it so of course they're going to say it's safe because it's better for their bottom line hydrolyzed soy protein and core corn protein big flavor enhancers uh and carrageenan in there the very uh inflammatory emulsifier that's really bad for your gut just say no to the beijing beef stick with the teriyaki chicken if you need a little more excitement in your life orange chicken is a better option than the beijing beef that's no good so what i would do once again is get my yummy yummy chicken thigh teriyakis and then you have two options you have white rice which i say never to eat because what is white rice white rice my friends is just brown rice that's been stripped of the bran the hall and the fiber so white rice in my opinion is dead food there's zero nutrition this at least has the complex carbohydrate still intact my only question man they make good rice there short grain slightly al dente that's really nice if you brought this kind of rice home to make fried rice with it'd be bomb.com because fried rice is best made with leftover rice that's a little dry that is good rice the problem is if i look at my notes here companion express explained to me why this steamed brown rice has soybean oil in there but the white rice is just white rice with no oil i don't know if that to put that to help it cook and stay separated right i've got to keep them separated i don't know but it's probably a touch of soybean oil i'd rather you get the complex carbohydrate over the simple carbohydrate so brown rice chicken teriyaki right just like uh larry david and curb chicken teriyaki boy i would be chicken teriyaki boy this is my go-to meal if i had to eat at um panda express but we're not done chow mein right brad look at that noodles vegetables that looks good i don't think i've ever actually had a chow mein in my life we might as well start with the best right that is really tasty it's cooked in cottonseed oil one of the most processed agricultural gmo oils around it's got the caramel coloring for the color of the noodles but it has ingredients that i normally see in cheap bread monoglycerides is a derivative of trans fatty acids that's a preservative and datum is usually made for bread to help the bread rise quicker and then there's yellow number five yellow number six potassium carbonate's fine bad news unfortunately the best bread the best chow mein of my life which is the first one is also the most toxic one so just say no to that uh then we'll go to this guy right here this is the super greens right yeah super greens what is it on the wow look at this what is brett i think they gave me a quarter of a cabbage here holy cow are they kidding me i thought it was a dumpling at first i don't want that cabbage get it done you got to reset your donut yeah right so super greens is basically just a ton of broccoli some shredded cabbage and a quarter cabbage here okay that's super greasy to be honest the seasoning is pretty weak which is a little odd because when you expect there to be msg and steamed super greens well the policy of course is not that msg but it has that dastardly flavor enhancer called disodium inosinate and disodium granulate the thing is those are bland as can be they're hijacking my taste buds they're not even putting enough if you're going to poison me just put some extra poison in there guys that's crazy that's not good so i don't know why they're adding that there it doesn't even taste that good that's a major no-no to that and last but not least i wanted to order uh chicken pot stickers and they said it hasn't been on the menu in quite some years so i guess this was my backup the chicken egg roll okay chicken egg roll is not something i would get either that's way too many ingredients for an egg roll and my cat once again we get the double dose of the msg we get yeast extract we get the cottonseed oil so no i would not go for that i was gonna get the chicken pot sticker because that's the cleanest option so my friends not the best news here at panda express i've just had a quadruple dose of msg which means i have to drink a ton of water and have a gut-friendly meal tonight let me cleanse my palate here so once again go with the teriyaki chicken with the brown rice get rid of the super greens uh that's it where to next right where should the fast food train roll into next subway bk your way leave a comment down below let us know we love making these videos for you i love poisoning my body just for you guys ah like subscribe share spread that flav city love from a very windy day here at panda express we leave you like we always do hashtag keep on cooking mad love and peace later

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Length: 14min 7sec (847 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 24 2021