Pizza healthy enough to eat 3 times a day, every day!?
From: http://gizmodo.com/5923097/scientist-creates-pizza-healthy-enough-to-eat-3-times-a-day-every-day
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Scientist Creates Pizza Healthy Enough to Eat 3 Times a Day, Every Day
Pizza is so good that most of us would be happy to eat it breakfast, lunch and dinner, if it weren't for the fact that it was more than a little unhealthy. But now a scientist has created what he claims is the first nutritionally balanced pizza—and it's OK to eat it three times a day, ever day.
The pizza, claims Mike Lean from Glasgow University, UK, contains 30 percent of an adult's guideline amount of vitamins and minerals, as well as a third of the recommended amount of calories, protein and carbohydrate.
Lean, inspired by the poor nutritional quality of most convenience foods, set out to create a pizza that offered the perfect balance of nutrients. As a result, some of the toppings might take you by surprise:
"I researched the market and found that seaweed was an interesting new ingredient being used in artisan bread. So we used that as a way of reducing the salt level. The sodium content of seaweed is about 3.5 percent compared to 40 percent in salt. There's iodine in there, vitamin B12, all sorts of things. And the flavour is excellent as well."
Elsewhere, the tomato sauce contains extra red pepper for a boost of vitamin C, and each pizza features extra magnesium, potassium, folates and vitamin A. All told, each pizza contains the exact proportions of calories, proteins, fat, carbohydrate and nutrients to make it a single, meal-sized way to obtain 30 percent of your recommended daily intake. Talking on BBC Radio 4's Today program this morning, Lean explained that it could be eaten for breakfast, lunch and dinner with not a single negative health effect.
There's obviously one big question here, though: how does it taste? Lean reassured listeners of Radio 4 that 100 taste testers said it was as good or better than other frozen pizzas available on the market. Still, some people won't have long to wait long before they find out for themselves: they go on sale in UK supermarkets later this year. At launch there will be a standard Margarita and a venison-topped version, with more toppings to be announced.
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Discuss.
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Scientist Creates Pizza Healthy Enough to Eat 3 Times a Day, Every Day
Pizza is so good that most of us would be happy to eat it breakfast, lunch and dinner, if it weren't for the fact that it was more than a little unhealthy. But now a scientist has created what he claims is the first nutritionally balanced pizza—and it's OK to eat it three times a day, ever day.
The pizza, claims Mike Lean from Glasgow University, UK, contains 30 percent of an adult's guideline amount of vitamins and minerals, as well as a third of the recommended amount of calories, protein and carbohydrate.
Lean, inspired by the poor nutritional quality of most convenience foods, set out to create a pizza that offered the perfect balance of nutrients. As a result, some of the toppings might take you by surprise:
"I researched the market and found that seaweed was an interesting new ingredient being used in artisan bread. So we used that as a way of reducing the salt level. The sodium content of seaweed is about 3.5 percent compared to 40 percent in salt. There's iodine in there, vitamin B12, all sorts of things. And the flavour is excellent as well."
Elsewhere, the tomato sauce contains extra red pepper for a boost of vitamin C, and each pizza features extra magnesium, potassium, folates and vitamin A. All told, each pizza contains the exact proportions of calories, proteins, fat, carbohydrate and nutrients to make it a single, meal-sized way to obtain 30 percent of your recommended daily intake. Talking on BBC Radio 4's Today program this morning, Lean explained that it could be eaten for breakfast, lunch and dinner with not a single negative health effect.
There's obviously one big question here, though: how does it taste? Lean reassured listeners of Radio 4 that 100 taste testers said it was as good or better than other frozen pizzas available on the market. Still, some people won't have long to wait long before they find out for themselves: they go on sale in UK supermarkets later this year. At launch there will be a standard Margarita and a venison-topped version, with more toppings to be announced.
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Discuss.
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I love pizza and the ingredients listed here sound awesome. I'd give it a go.0
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Sounds pretty good!0
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I'd try it.0
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What I would like to see is bacon that can be eaten 3 times a day everyday.0
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What I would like to see is bacon that can be eaten 3 times a day everyday.
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I like that the guys last name is Lean...0
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Heck why not? I love pizza but try to stay away from it because of how bad it is for you...along with everything else in the world. LOL
So hey, if they can make a healthy pizza, I'm all for it! LOL0 -
No thanks, eating pizza 3x a day is what got me fat in the first place. :laugh:0
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i love the idea of using seaweed in the crust, but, still, I'd rather make it myself. Often times we make our own pizza at home using stuff straight from our garden, so it's already considerably more healthy than take-out, but what a great idea to use seaweed!0
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It's as good as an average frozen pizza? No thanks. I'd rather have an occasional tasty, freshly-made pizza than eat all the mediocre pizza I wanted.0
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Yumm, I would love to try this! I hope they bring it to the US!!0
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Last name is Lean?.... Hehe!0
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It's as good as an average frozen pizza? No thanks. I'd rather have an occasional tasty, freshly-made pizza than eat all the mediocre pizza I wanted.
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The real question is the crust? The real problem is the wheat which the body processes like sugar. Regular pizza toppings aren't that bad to begin with.0
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The real question is the crust? The real problem is the wheat which the body processes like sugar. Regular pizza toppings aren't that bad to begin with.
have you tried cauliflower crust? holy moses: amazing!0 -
What I would like to see is bacon that can be eaten 3 times a day everyday.
Now that would be ideal!0
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