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The Australian Nutrition Foundation has discovered sandwiches are not the healthiest option to buy in take away food outlets across Melbourne.

The foundation examined 170 sandwiches across 30 outlets and compared the results with the Australian adult’s daily limits of total fat, saturated fat and sodium.

The Foundation’s chief nutritionist, Jane Smith, said “many shops are giving you a dinner’s worth of fat and calories”.

A Tuna salad sandwich has the highest total fat and is only 22 grams under the daily intake of 65 grams, as it is “drowning in about one-third of a cup of mayonnaise,” Ms Smith said.

“That’s the equivalent of three McDonald’s Quarter Pounders, fat-wise,” she said.

Turkey with mustard had the lowest total fat, with six grams of total fat and two grams of saturated fat.

Roast beef with mustard had the second lowest fat and the lowest sodium with 993 milligrams.

Vegetarian sandwiches with avocado had the highest overall fat and ham with mustard sandwiches had the highest sodium, only 56 milligrams under the daily intake of 2344 milligrams.