Oils, calories, salt -- restaurants may be kidding some people with those salads, but not you. Right?

“Contains lettuce” is not synonymous with “good for you.” Driving home this point in headline-grabbing (or blog-grabbing) fashion is yet another list from the “Eat This, Not That” series.

From the 650-calorie, 1,450-milligrams-of-sodium chicken Caesar salad (No. 20) at Romano’s Macaroni Grill to the 1,800-calorie Santa Fe chopped salad (the winner at No. 1) at TGI Fridays, these salads are not to be trifled with.

If you don’t feel like clicking through the side-show format of this list -- 20 Salads Worse Than a Whopper -- or want to check out a particular salad at a particular restaurant chain, try the company’s website or the restaurant list at Calorie Count.

The latter helpfully advises that one serving of Olive Garden’s garden fresh salad has 350 calories. That’s with dressing. Without dressing, one serving is 120 calories.

Ah, the dressing. Never, ever underestimate salad dressing.

Check out a few bottles at the supermarket. Or, again, check Calorie Count’s list of salad dressings. It’s riveting and horrifying at the same time.

(Please. Consider the 15-calorie-per-serving kind. It’s good. Really.)

And if Booster Shots seems to feature the “Eat This, Eat That” series a bit obsessively -- Among fast food meals, these may be some of the biggest offenders, Attention to beverage calories grows, but has yet to catch up with waistlines -- it’s for your own good.

By the way, a Burger King Whopper has 670 calories and 1,020 milligrams of sodium.

-- Tami Dennis / Los Angeles Times