Applebee's Oriental Salad with Chicken

Applebee’s Grill & Bar serves various salads, including an Oriental Salad with your option of grilled chicken or crispy chicken.

The salad is made with cabbage, romaine lettuce, carrots, almonds, and crunchy noodles. It’s tossed with an Oriental vinaigrette and served with a buttery garlic breadstick.

Total calories vary depending on your selected protein. For a lower calorie option, select the grilled chicken, which contains 1,440 total calories. An Oriental Salad with crispy chicken has 120 more calories for 1,560 total calories.

Read this reference guide for detailed information about the nutritional value, calories, ingredients, and allergens in this hearty salad from Applebee’s Grill & Bar.

Applebee’s Oriental Salad Nutrition Facts

Nutritional information is based on a single serving measured as one salad with dressing. This is a great food information guide with an overview of the nutrition facts for the salad made with either crispy chicken or grilled chicken.

% Daily Value

Serving: 1 Salad

Red indicates %DV is high

Chicken	Grilled	Crispy
Saturated Fat	70%	85%
Cholesterol	45%	23%
Sodium	89%	72%

%DV based on 2,000 calories

Reference to the percentage daily value illustrates how much a specific nutrient in the meal contributes to a daily diet of 2,000 calories. Your nutrition needs may differ.

Calories

Total calories vary depending on the selected protein. The salad served with Crispy Chicken has more calories, fat, and carbohydrates per serving than with Grilled Chicken.

Calories per Serving Based on Type of Chicken

(per serving)	Grilled Chicken	Crispy Chicken
Total Calories	1,440	1,560
Calories from Fat	805	940
Calories from Saturated Fat	125	150
Calories from Carbs	415	465
Calories from Protein	220	155

Serving is measured as one salad with dressing and one breadstick.

Over half of the total calories are derived from dietary fat. The salad with crispy chicken contains about 940 calories from fat, which is 60% of the total calories. Moreover, saturated fat contributes approximately ten percent of the calories.

Salad with Grilled Chicken

fat: 805 calories

56%

carbohydrates: 415 calories

29%

Protein: 220 calories

15%

Salad with Crispy Chicken

fat: 940 calories

60%

carbohydrates: 465 calories

30%

Protein: 155 calories

10%

The summary of calories by macronutrient above are rounded estimates based on the nutrition facts provided by Applebee’s. Calories may vary by location or as a result of how the salads are prepared.

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Dietary Fat

As mentioned above, the nutritional value of the Oriental Salad varies depending on how the chicken is prepared and cooked.

Title

	Total Fat	Saturated Fat
Salad with Grilled Chicken	90 grams	14 grams
Salad with Crispy Chicken	105 grams	17 grams

The amount of fat in the Oriental Salad with Chicken, regardless of which type of chicken is ordered, is considered high.

Dietary Guidelines for Americans (published by the US Department of Health and Human Services) recommend limiting calories from saturated fat to less than 10% of total calories. To that end, one serving of the salad has a 70% or greater daily value.

SUMMARY OF DIETARY FAT PER SERVING

805+ calories from dietary fats (>50% of total calories)
125+ calories from saturated fat
1 gram trans fatty acids

NOTE: Saturated Fats are found in fried foods, baked goods, animal fats, sauces, and vegetable shortening, among other food items. The FDA recommends choosing foods lower in saturated fat.

Sodium

The amount of sodium is very high for a single meal. In fact, the amount of sodium is more than 70% of the recommended limit for an entire day.

The salad topped with Crispy Chicken has 1,650 mg of sodium (72% DV).
The salad topped with Grilled Chicken has 2,050 mg of sodium (89% DV).

For context, the FDA recommends American adults limit their sodium intake to no more than 2,300 milligrams daily.

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Nutrition Summary

(per serving)	With Grilled Chicken	With Crispy Chicken
Calories	1,440	1,560
Total Fat	90g	105g
— Saturated Fat	14g	17g
— Trans Fat	1g	1g
Cholesterol	135mg	70mg
Sodium	2,050mg	1,650mg
Carbohydrates	105g	118g
— Dietary Fiber	11g	12g
— Total Sugars	53g	45g
Protein	57g	40g

Serving is measured as one salad with dressing, one breadstick and choice of protein. Provided for informational purposes only. Consult with your physician for dietary or healthcare advice.

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Oriental Salad Ingredients and Allergens

Ingredients

The Oriental Salad is made with Asian greens, chicken, a vinaigrette dressing, crunchy noodles, and almonds. Price and nutritional information includes one breadstick.

See below for the list of ingredients in Applebee’s Oriental Salad.

Asian Greens

The base salad is made with a variety of vegetables.

Ingredients in salad greens:Cabbage, Romaine Lettuce, Red Cabbage, and Carrots.

Grilled Chicken

Ingredients in chicken:Uncooked Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast with Rib Meat, containing up to 18% of a solution of: Water, Seasoning, Modified Food Starch, Sodium Phosphates, and Soybean Oil.

Seasoning includes Salt, Onion Powder, Yeast Extract, Garlic Powder, Chicken Broth, Sugar, L-Glutamic Acid, Disodium Inosinate And Disodium Guanylate, Lactic Acid, Dextrose, Citric Acid, Grill Flavor (from sunflower oil), Artificial Flavor, and Silicon Dioxide (to prevent caking)

Crispy Chicken Tenders

Ingredients in chicken:Rib Meat, Breast Tender, or Tenderloins containing up to 14% of a solution of Water, Seasoning and Sodium Phosphate.

Seasoning is made with modified food starch, salt, natural bell pepper flavor (red bell pepper, flavoring {contains canola oil}, tapioca maltodextrin, spice, extractives of paprika, ascorbic acid, extractives of rosemary), sodium diacetate, dehydrated garlic, dehydrated onion, citric acid, and spice.

Ingredients in Batter:Water, Bleached Wheat Flour, Yellow Corn Flour, Modified Corn Starch, Salt, Leavening, Nonfat Dry Milk, Xanthan Gum, and Dried Whole Eggs.

Leavening contains sodium bicarbonate, sodium aluminum phosphate, and monocalcium phosphate.

Ingredients in Breading:Wheat Flour, Salt, Spices, Leavening, Paprika, Nonfat Dry Milk, Garlic Powder, Onion Powder, Spice Extractives, Enriched Wheat Flour, Wheat Flour, Wheat Gluten, Dried Egg Whites, and Salt.

Leavening contains sodium bicarbonate, sodium aluminum phosphate, and monocalcium phosphate.
Wheat Flour is enriched with niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, and folic acid.
Breading is set in Vegetable Oil, Soybean Oil, Liquid and Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, TBHQ, Citric Acid, and Dimethylpolysiloxane (an anti-foaming agent).

Crunchy Noodles

Ingredients in crispy noodle topping:Enriched Wheat Flour, Vegetable Oil (cottonseed and/or soybean), Rice Flour, Water, Salt, and Cornstarch.

Ingredient includes wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, and folic acid.

Oriental Dressing

Ingredients in Oriental Dressing:Soybean Oil, Sugar, Water, Distilled Vinegar, Soy Sauce, Sesame Seed Oil, Salt, Polysorbate 60, Xanthan Gum, Chicken Meat (including natural chicken juices), Maltodextrin, Chicken Fat, Caramel Color, Calcium Disodium EDTA Added To Protect Flavor, Dried Whey, Natural Flavor, Turmeric, Soy Lecithin, Oleoresin Turmeric.

Soy Sauce is made with water, soybeans, salt, and alcohol.

Breadstick

Ingredients in breadstick:Flour (Wheat, Malted Barley), Water, Salt, Dextrose, Yeast, Soybean Oil, Monoglycerides, Garlic Powder, Parsley, Oregano, Basil, Ascorbic Acid, Enriched Flour, Enzymes, Calcium Propionate (preservative), Liquid And Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, TBHQ And Citric Acid (preservatives), and Dimethylpolysiloxane (anti-foaming agent).

Enriched Flour includes wheat, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, and folic acid.

Garlic Butter Sauce on Breadstick

Ingredients in butter sauce:Liquid and Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Salt, Natural & Artificial Flavor, Soy Lecithin, TBHQ And Citric Acid (preservatives), Artificial Color, Dimethylpolysiloxane (anti-foaming agent), Liquid Margarine, Garlic, Anhydrous Milkfat, Spice, Salt, Natural Flavor, Natural Extractive of Turmeric and Annatto (color), Garlic, Water, Citric Acid (preservative), Salt, Spice, Garlic Powder, and Sunflower Oil (flow agent).

Liquid Margarine is made with soybean oil, water, vegetable mono & diglycerides, salt, natural flavor (milk), Vitamin A palmitate, and Vitamin D3.

Allergens

The Oriental Salad meal is made with ingredients that contain gluten, milk, sesame, soy, sulfites, tree nuts, wheat. The salad made with crispy chicken also contains egg.

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Applebee’s Menu Prices

The following table presents the prices and nutritional information for Applebee’s salads.

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Updated June 2025	Price	Calories	Fat	Carbs	Protein
Chicken Tortilla Soup	$5.99	280	15g	26g	11g
French Onion Soup	$6.99	370	21g	26g	16g
Tomato Basil Soup	$5.99	210	12g	22g	5g
Caesar Salad with Shrimp	$16.99	860	58g	56g	31g
Caesar Salad with Grilled Chicken	$14.99	980	61g	55g	56g
Crispy Chicken Tender Salad	$13.99	1230	82g	80g	45g
Grilled Chicken Salad	$14.49	1030	64g	57g	62g
Oriental Crispy Chicken Salad	$14.99	1560	105g	118g	40g
Oriental Grilled Chicken Salad	$15.49	1440	90g	105g	57g
Quesadilla Chicken Salad	$15.99	2240	153g	89g	123g
Strawberry Balsamic Chicken Salad	$14.99	910	50g	69g	52g
House Salad (no dressing)	$5.99	140	7g	14g	6g
Caesar Side Salad	$5.99	230	18g	13g	5g

Nutrition facts, prices, and ingredients are based on available information as of the date of publication. Restaurants and food manufacturers may change their recipes without notice. Check directly with the food provider for the most up-to-date information. NutritionandIngredients.com does not provide health or wellness advice or dietary recommendations. All reports and reviews published on this site are for informational purposes only. Unless otherwise stated, %DV is based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Always consult your physician for any healthcare or dietary advice.

Nutrition facts and ingredients source: Applebee’s Grill + Bar

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Applebee’s Oriental Salad with Chicken