Salads are a summer staple for light, no-fuss meals, but are you getting more fat and calories than you bargained for? Most salad dressings are laden with fat and calories and can add up to 20 grams of fat and 200 calories to your "light" meal. Ouch!

Salad dressing can be light and delicious. Our executive chef Bonnie Moore will show you how to add flavor and punch to vinaigrettes with fresh herbs and citrus.

You can lower the fat content even more by using fruit purees, like mango, instead of oil. Read on for more sneaky tricks for trimming calories off your dressings and making some very virtuous vinaigrettes.

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