No Bottles Here
Seed oils, MSG, artificial flavors, food dyes and preservatives are just a few of the ingredients you’ll see in the ingredient list on the back of your run of the mill, store bought bottle of salad dressing. Take a closer look, in fact, and you will find that most of these “go-to” bottled dressings foremost ingredients are nothing more than water and high-fructose corn syrup. Furthermore, most store-bought salad dressings are also packed with artificial flavors and colors and sodium-rich preservatives.
Why is this important?
When diving into their favorite salad, many folks use far more than the recommended serving size of dressing. When doing this, the calories, added sugars, sodium, and saturated fat found in these dressings add up and fast. Too much saturated fat in your diet may drive up your cholesterol and lead to blockages in arteries. Eating too much sodium on a regular basis can increase the risk of a heart attack or a stroke in some people and negate the effects of many medications to treat high blood pressure, such as diuretics. The American Heart Association recommends no more than 2,300 mg per day, with an ideal limit of 1,500 mg per day for most adults. Flooding your body with sugar can spike your blood sugar, make you hungrier later, and add inches to your waistline. The American Heart Association recommends no more than 24 grams of added sugar per day for women and 36 grams for men.
So, what do we do? How do we avoid turning our healthy salad into an unhealthy cholesterol laden meal?
At Ron’s we believe in crafting everything from scratch using only the finest ingredients and that includes our salad dressings.
It All Starts at 6am
Here in our kitchen, our staff starts most mornings before 6am. Why? Because making everything from scratch takes time and we don’t take any shortcuts or “easy ways out”. Each of our dressings are made in house without the use of preservatives, artificial colors and flavor enhancers. In fact, most of our dressings start with the finest olive oil made from olives picked at the peak of freshness. Follow that up with the highest quality balsamic vinegar imported from Modena, Italy and you have the makings of our fan favorite Modena Dressing.
Not a fan of vinaigrettes? That’s ok. We have some of the best Ranch Dressing in Pennsylvania and our loyal community of customers will attest to that! Made fresh daily using only the best ingredients that are free of added hormones and antibiotics. That recipe, however, will forever remain a secret family recipe.
You see, here at Ron’s we consider our customers part of the family and we wouldn’t serve you anything we wouldn’t feel comfortable serving our family. That’s why we take great care in everything we do. From the curation of our ingredients down to the processes we use to craft our recipes. The bottom line is, we will never serve anything but the best!