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The move has been widely attributed to pressure from food blogger and nutrition gadfly Vani Hari, who has written about Chick-fil-A's use of certain ingredients on her website FoodBabe.com over the past two years.
However, Jodie Worrell, senior nutrition consultant at Chick-fil-A, said the Atlanta-based chain has actually been working on tweaking ingredients for years in an effort to improve the menu's nutritional profile - though officials did meet with Hari last year to hear her concerns.
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Worrell, a registered dietitian who has worked on the chain's culinary staff for about 12 years, said the effort began in the 1990s, when Chick-fil-A put grilled chicken on the menu as an alternative to the traditional fried chicken sandwich.
In 2004, when the chain added a fruit cup to the menu, the team began looking at other steps...