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We’ve merged
everything together
to come up with
one complete pizza
solution: a complete
balanced meal.”
FOOD
HUFFINGTON
08.05.12
MAKE
HEALTHIER
HOMEMADE
PIZZA
Use Cooked
Tomato Sauce
HE AVERAGE AMERICAN consumes
23 pounds of pizza every year, but a
recent development in the food industry has made it possible for that
figure — but not the already bursting national
waistline — to balloon.
Glasgow University nutritionist and professor
Mike Lean and British entrepreneur Donnie Maclean teamed up to develop what they claim is a
nutritionally balanced pizza. Each serving of the
frozen pizza contains 30 percent of an individual’s daily nutritional requirements for vitamins,
minerals, calories, carbohydrates and protein.
Swapping in traditional ingredients for nutritional replacements — adding seaweed to the
crust, for instance — the team was able to reduce the amount of salt and fat in their pizza
while adding in essential vitamins and nutrients. Other tricks,
like adding red pepper
to the tomato sauce
to boost its vitamin
C content and concocting unusual
T
Fresh, uncooked
tomato sauce sounds
like a healthier option
than traditional
marinara, but that’s
usually not the case.
Cooking tomatoes
brings out their
lycopene, a powerful
antioxidant that may
help to prevent some
chronic disease.
Use Sauce
With Olive Oil
Make sure your sauce
has olive oil, which
greatly increases the
absorption of lycopene.
Our bodies don’t absorb
lycopene without fat,
so in the same way that
a salad is better for
you with a little
dressing, sauce is also
better with a little oil.