The Pitfalls of Bottled Salad Dressings

What you pour on your super-food green salad may not exactly measure up to be health food. "I’ve been known to have tantrums in the salad dressing aisle of the grocery store," says chef, registered dietitian and author of Whole Cooking and Nutrition, Katie Cavuto. “Many of the store-bought salad dressing options contain ingredients that I would never use at home. They’ve got ingredients that we don’t need to be consuming on a regular basis. Plus, salad dressing is so, so easy to make yourself.

Cavuto suggests grabbing a jar with a lid (even a used-up peanut butter jar) and adding just three ingredients: 1 part extra virgin olive oil, 1 part vinegar or citrus juice, and a squirt of mustard.

If you’re still curious about how to pick a healthy bottled dressing, or, if you want more delicious dressing recipes, keep reading.