Vegetarian sushi lovers can relax a little on your next trip to your favorite sushi restaurant. There’s more waiting for herbivores than a California or Avocado roll; now there’s the Vegetarian Dragon roll!
{This colorful sushi roll is packed with vegetables and nutrients!}
Mad with cucumbers, avocado, carrots and sweet potatoes the vegetable dragon roll is an inside-out roll that even meat eaters are sure to love. But before you place your order for delivery, keep reading for vegetable dragon roll nutrition facts!
Major Nutrients In Vegetable Dragon Roll
As you can see from the above nutrition chart, the vegetable dragon roll falls right into the ‘ideal’ zone for calorie count. With just 410 calories per roll you can enjoy this as a meal without affecting your calorie deficit for weight loss.
Perhaps the most astonishing thing about the vegetable dragon roll is that it provides you with 32% of your recommended daily value of fiber. If you don’t know what that means, it means you’ll burn a little more simply breaking down this roll! Thanks to the avocado this roll has a respectable amount of protein and 20% of your daily value of vitamin C, so you know you’re getting nutrients.
But as usual there are a few things you should watch out for. Vegetable dragon roll nutrition facts show 13g of fat and 570mg of sodium, which isn’t terrible, but it does mean you should do a diet shuffle to make sure you don’t eat more fat and sodium than you need.
Selecting/Storing
Although the vegetable dragon roll has no meat in it, freshness should still be your major concern. With fresh avocado you want to make sure this roll was made to order, which means brightly colored avocado slices should be covering this roll not brown or black slices.
If you can’t eat your vegetable dragon roll right away don’t worry; it’ll keep in the fridge for up to 3 days if it hasn’t been opened. If it has however, it is best eaten within 24 hours of ordering.
Eat It With:
The vegetable dragon roll comes with the traditional sushi condiments of pickled ginger, wasabi paste and soy sauce. Request low sodium soy sauce to keep your sodium intake as low as possible with this roll.
Order water or tea to keep the calorie count on your sushi meal down.
Burn Off A Vegetable Dragon Roll
To burn off the calories in a vegetable dragon roll, you would have to do:
- 59 minutes of badminton.
- 37 minutes of cross country skiing.
- 82 minutes of fishing.
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