Monday, 02 July 2012
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"The First Nutritionally Balanced Pizza"
Scottish food experts are claiming to have created the world's first nutritionally balanced pizza after seeing the shortage of nutritious food. Nutritionist and professor Mike Lean (from Glasgow University) and his team have come up with a special pizza that only contains a third of the adult's recommended daily amount (RDA) of calories, carbohydrates and protein while having 30 percent of the RDA of vitamins and minerals.
How did they manage such an accomplishment? By adding nutrients from sources such as seaweed, fruits and unusual vegetables.
Lean shared with the Metro:"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% compared to 40% in salt. There's iodine in there, vitamin B12, all sorts of things. And the flavour is excellent as well."
According to BBC, Lean's pizza may be hitting the shelves soon as a leading British supermarket has shown interest in the product.
Would you try this pizza? What do you think of a nutritional pizza?
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Comments (20)
I would definitely eat it. It looks delicious.
I'd eat it, long as it tastes good!
I'd be willing to give it a whirl.
I somehow don't think the pizza in the picture is what they created because it has what appears to be white (refined) flour.
It looks great, but anything with that much bread and cheese is hard to sell as balanced.
I question how excellent the flavor actually is....but id give it a shot!
Is this a joke? "a special pizza that only contains a third of the adult's recommended daily amount (RDA) of calories"
one meal making up for 1/3 of the calories? no thank you.. Sounds like a regular pizza to me btw..
that's bullshit, I makes Pizzas like that since ages. Just use a whole wheat bottom, don't add THAT much cheese, and balance it out with vegetables.
besides, I hate when people claim ONE item of food is "junk" or "unbalanced". Raw lettuce sticks aren't "balanced" in themselves either. It depends on what else you eat. *rolls eyes*
Who eats pizza for their health?
That's like eating nutritional fried chicken.
I think I'd try it, but most frozen pizzas taste awkward, especially if they're considered healthy.
@dewdroptear@xanga - Digiorno frozen personal size pizzas, those tiny little pizzas they sell, have over 700 calories for just the cheese pizza. So I'm thinking this pizza is probably 300-500 calories. Which is still high but it's still way better than most out there.
While the pizza itself sounds a little hyped, I would definitely try the seaweed crust.
I wanna try it!
a third of an adults daily caloric intake is still 666+ calories. you can have three slices of any other kind of pizza for that much.
No, thank you. I'll stick with Chicago-style deep dish or stuffed. A stuffed spinach pizza sound good for today.
Who eats pizza to be healthy? Sorry, but people know pizza is unhealthy. If you want a healthy meal, buy a salad.
@under_the_carpet@xanga - This.
Normal, healthy eating doesn't exclude "unhealthy" foods. It just balances them with healthy ones.
Eating a piece of cake, cheeseburger, or a few pieces of pizza doesn't make your diet unbalanced. Only eating those things does.
The last time I made homemade pizza, I used whole wheat flour, made tomato sauce from scratch, and put several kinds of vegetables on it. Yes, it was a little fatty - it used olive oil and had cheese on it - but that didn't mean it was a threat to a balanced diet. It's about the big picture, not the individual meal.
@iscaphia@xanga - it is. If you love fried chicken, and in the large picture eat too many things like that, you will not want to give it up completely.
So when you do eat it, and choose a 'healthier' chicken (e.g. quality meat with less fat mass) you are all in all eating healthier.
People don't "eat pizza for health". If you eat that for breakfast, lunch and dinner it is not so balanced any more. They change their diet to be healthier, and that can mean cooking with more 'balanced' recipes.
Lmao. What a joke.
3 times a day of pizza? OK! But I bet it will be expensive.
As long as there is protein, carb and fiber... I don't care what it tastes like.