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A Scottish nutritionist has teamed up with an entrepreneur to produce what they claim are the first nutritionally balanced pizzas.
The pizzas are said to contain 30% of an adult's guideline daily amount of vitamins and minerals.
They are also said to have a third of the recommended amount of calories, protein and carbohydrate.
The pizzas were created by Mike Lean, of Glasgow University, and businessman Donnie Maclean.
Prof Lean, of the university's human nutrition department said the idea was born out of frustration.
He said: "If you go along to a supermarket or a restaurant and buy a meal, then somebody should have thought about it nutritionally.
"We've recently studied ready meals produced by the top five supermarkets in Scotland - common foods eaten in huge numbers - and they're hopelessly unbalanced.
"They contain as much salt as you should have in a whole day or more. They contain as much saturated fat as you should have in a whole day or more. The nutrients we need every day are absent from these meals. Nobody has thought about it. So I got together with Donnie to try to do this."
'Complete meal'
Mr Maclean helped Prof Lean come up with unusual ways of incorporating more nutrients into a pizza.
He said: "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."
Red pepper is also mixed in with the tomato base to give the pizza extra vitamin C. As well as these nutrients, each pizza contains magnesium, potassium, folates and vitamin A.
"The way the guidelines are set out, you have 20% of your nutrients and calories from your breakfast, 30% from your lunch, 30% from your dinner, and an extra 20% for snacks," said Mr Maclean, the founder of Eat Balanced.
"We focused on pizza being a lunch or a dinner option. Each pizza gives a complete meal, with all the nutrients in it, for 30% of your day."
A survey by Mintel suggested seven in 10 British adults eat pizza, with forecasters predicting the market will be worth £1bn by 2016.
Catering suppliers
"For a good number of years I have been trying to help people find easy ways to get a balanced diet," said Prof Lean, who is also a consultant physician at Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
Mr Maclean and Prof Lean come up with unusual ways of incorporating more nutrients into a pizza
"The easiest way to do that is to eat nutritionally balanced meals. Three of those a day and you've done it, but at the moment commercially prepared meals are not nutritionally balanced. "
One major British supermarket chain has already indicated it will stock the healthy pizzas, and Mr Maclean is in talks with other supermarkets and catering suppliers.
The pizzas will only be available frozen as tests revealed the nutrients were better preserved that way, and Prof Lean and Donald Maclean said they had to work hard to keep prices down.
"Our pizzas are more expensive than most of the frozen pizzas but on a par with the chilled pizzas," said Mr Maclean.
"So it shouldn't be a hard pill to swallow, or a hard pizza to eat."
The pair now have other junk food classics in their sights.
They are already testing a recipe for a nutritionally balanced curry and, after that, they're planning to tackle fish and chips.[/quote]
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[quote]they're planning to tackle fish and chips.[/quote]
Yes please
[quote]A Scottish nutritionist has teamed up with an entrepreneur to produce what they claim are the first nutritionally balanced pizzas.[/quote]
But anyone can claim to be a nutritionist, dietician is the legally protected term.
Still, if this means I can stuff my face, then go right ahead!
Pizza is pretty healthy if done correctly anyway.
Pizza itself is a very broad term for a piece of dough rolled into a flat rounded shape with whatever you want on it. My favorite pizza is spinach, mushrooms and basil with pieces of mozzarella scattered on it. The only thing you have to watch out for is the fat from the cheese and the sugary dough with the carbs.
Yay, Now i don't have to stick my fingers down my throat after I eat a whole pizza alone!
... :(
You mean pizza isn't already incredibly healthy?
And then it'll get battered!
The reason pizza is unhealthy usually is because it's the cheapest shit chain places can put out that people will still pay enough money for to make a profit. These pizzas are probably pretty expensive and the people who actually pay money for the vomit called Domino's won't be willing to pay that much.
I'm literally eating pizza right now, In Scotland.
[QUOTE=POLOPOZOZO;36608203]The reason pizza is unhealthy usually is because it's the cheapest shit chain places can put out that people will still pay enough money for to make a profit. These pizzas are probably pretty expensive and the people who actually pay money for the vomit called Domino's won't be willing to pay that much.[/QUOTE]
No, it's because they try to make the pizzas taste good. That's pretty much the priority, which causes unhealthiness as a side effect. Also, healthy does not equal expensive, contrary to what you seem to believe.
[QUOTE=Apache249;36608272]No, it's because they try to make the pizzas taste good. That's pretty much the priority, which causes unhealthiness as a side effect. Also, healthy does not equal expensive, contrary to what you seem to believe.[/QUOTE]
ROFL wow they have done a really great job making their pizzas taste good you got me there, nvm that their largest possible pizza costs less than a single pound of seaweed, so yeah, eating healthy is incredibly expensive.
[QUOTE=Apache249;36608272]No, it's because they try to make the pizzas taste good. That's pretty much the priority, which causes unhealthiness as a side effect. Also, healthy does not equal expensive, contrary to what you seem to believe.[/QUOTE]
Domino's has been fucking delicious since they changed their recipe recently.
[QUOTE=POLOPOZOZO;36608364][B][I]ROFL[/I] wow they have done a really great job making their pizzas taste good you got me there[/B], nvm that their largest possible pizza costs less than a single pound of seaweed, so yeah, eating healthy is incredibly expensive.[/QUOTE]
Whether or not you think they taste good is irrelevant. They [I]are[/I] trying to make them taste good, not healthy. Also a pound of seaweed being more expensive than their pizza is meaningless. Seaweed is not the only healthy food in existence. There are other healthy foods which are cheap.
[QUOTE=alien_guy;36608247]I'm literally eating pizza right now, In Scotland.[/QUOTE]
I just ate pizza 3 hours ago. In Denmark.
[QUOTE=Apache249;36608572]Whether or not you think they taste good is irrelevant. They [I]are[/I] trying to make them taste good, not healthy. Also a pound of seaweed being more expensive than their pizza is meaningless. Seaweed is not the only healthy food in existence. There are other healthy foods which are cheap.[/QUOTE]Leaner meats are not cheaper, less processed breads are not cheaper. It isn't cheaper. None of this has to do with my original post however, as I said THESE pizzas, in the article, are most likely too pricey. If you did happen to actually read the article it said they had seaweed on them.
Also are you seriously going to go with the subjective argument on me when the company spent huge amounts of money on an ad campaign in order to get people back to buying it after it was notorious for being the absolute worst cardboard you could possibly get? Ok fine, replace Domino's with Little Caesar's or Pizza Hut or seriously any chain.
Reminds me of the old Bill Cosby routine.
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Pizza? IT'S GOT EGGS!
IN THE CRUST!
AND MILK!
AND WHEAT!
AND CHEESE!
Hopefully they do something like potato chips or cookies.
nothing will beat Let's Pizza and its pies that are untouched by filthy inferior human hands
Don't worry, everyone knows pizza is a vegetable, right?
It's meaningless having nutritional pizza in Scotland, especially in Glasgow, because we'll more than likely deep fry the fucker and sell it with chips anyway.
Thank fuck. My favourite pizza has 1500 calories and it's only a pepperoni.
It will still be deep fried in Scotland
They need nutritional deep fry batter.
I think healthy pizza in Scotland is pizza without being fried.
[QUOTE=squids_eye;36611118]They need nutritional deep fry batter.[/QUOTE]
And deep frying oil
[QUOTE=Van-man;36611415]And deep frying oil[/QUOTE]
Canola oil?
Finally our country is trying to get out of 2nd place most obese country in the world!
[QUOTE=POLOPOZOZO;36608784]Leaner meats are not cheaper, less processed breads are not cheaper. It isn't cheaper. None of this has to do with my original post however, as I said THESE pizzas, in the article, are most likely too pricey. If you did happen to actually read the article it said they had seaweed on them.
Also are you seriously going to go with the subjective argument on me when the company spent huge amounts of money on an ad campaign in order to get people back to buying it after it was notorious for being the absolute worst cardboard you could possibly get? Ok fine, replace Domino's with Little Caesar's or Pizza Hut or seriously any chain.[/QUOTE]
You can live off 5 dollars a day, eating three full extremely healthy meals if you buy the right food.
That is neat, Scotland.
[QUOTE=Mr. Smartass;36614544]You can live off 5 dollars a day, eating three full extremely healthy meals if you buy the right food.[/QUOTE]
Do you have an example of this ultra healthy $1.67 meal? Because I bet it doesn't have what these pizzas are made of.
[QUOTE=POLOPOZOZO;36614849]Do you have an example of this ultra healthy $1.67 meal? Because I bet it doesn't have what these pizzas are made of.[/QUOTE]
Those numbers are probably obtained by buying bulk ingredients monthly and dividing the total cost by 30 (or probably 31 cause that lowers it further)
I'd believe it though.
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