Is Cinnabon a Healthy Place to Eat?

People love Cinnabon. Cinnabon's sticky buns are huge, decadent, and covered in cream cheese frosting. The chain expected to sell its billionth cinnamon roll by 2004.

If taste is no object

If you stumble into a Cinnabon "with a face as white as death," as Larry Groce put it in "Junk Food Junkie," you're really stuck. The smell is intoxicating, everything tastes good, and nothing is low in calories or fat. So try our four-step program: (1) Order one Minibon (the smallest roll on the menu); (2) Cut it in half; (3) Take a bite of each half; (4) Throw both halves away.

Better than you thought

CinnabonStix, introduced in 2000, were actually the first "hand-held" Cinnabon product. (Is it a cell phone or is it food?) While not exactly nutritious, the other items on the Cinnabon menu are so fattening that the CinnabonStix's 346 calories and 11 grams of fat actually qualify as reasonable.

You knew it was bad for you

Cinnabon's signature roll is so rotund it could double as a shot put. At half a pound, the Cinnabon is a sugar and fat intestinal exploder that yields 670 calories and 34 grams of fat, more of both than a Pizza Hut Personal Pan Supreme pizza.

But not this bad

The Caramel Pecanbon was recently named "Food Porn" by the Center for Science in the Public Interest-and for good reason. This gooey dieter's nightmare has 900 calories and 41 grams of fat. Help your cardiologist make his boat payments by ordering one today.