Pizza typically contains almost every food group. Grain, vegetable, meat, dairy, salt, cholesterol, and microplastics. It does not usually contain candy however.
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Etterra@discuss.online 15 hours ago
cley_faye@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
It does not usually contain candy however.
There’s a market to look into then.
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
They sell chocolate pizza here
danc4498@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t believe that’s organic or whole wheat.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
By ‘aged’ they mean left sitting on the counter overnight.
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Cheese is aged by default, and as long as there’s some real milk in it, its somewhat organic.
buttnugget@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Also, cheese is not aged milk.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s the best age for pizza!
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 19 hours ago
You can easily buy wholemeal flour, it just costs a lot more than plain white flour. At least it does here. I recently ground up some rolled oats in a spice grinder to make crackers, along with a bit of sourdough starter. Worked out ok (and cheaper than wheat flour) but the dough I got from oats was pretty heavy and thick.
BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
It contains at least one whole wheat.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 19 hours ago
It might, but far more likely it’s white flour
monogram@feddit.nl 1 day ago
X to doubt.
ChokingHazard@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s not inorganic… seems pretty organic to me.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
In the same spirit: “I’m a 2nd degree vegetarian because I only eat meat from herbivores”
BilSabab@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
it makes sense though
Etterra@discuss.online 14 hours ago
Kinda how first degree royalty is a Hapsberg, or a 3rd degree twice removed felony is politics?
BlueLineBae@midwest.social 1 day ago
This is why I roll my eyes at people who talk about how healthy honey is. Like sure it’s better for you than sugar for very minute reasons, but at the end of the day, it’s still sugar. But you know… honey is “natural”. Marketing is a helluva drug.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 day ago
Sugar is also natural. 🤷♂️
ezterry@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
While many sources of fructose naturally and no reason to think they behave differently than HFCS, high fructose corn syrup to my knowledge uses enzymes to convert glucose to fructose to raise the percentage. (And then re-add corn syrup to adjust the fructose/glucose to a desired ratio)
How much healthier a simple syrup (sugar split into a 50% glucose and 50% fructose) vs a 60/40 fructose/glucose HFCS is very debatable…
Really just hates it when you buy something without sugar/HFCS and find it had artificial sweeteners instead… When I wanted no additional sweeteners. looks at canned fruit in cabinet
Cort@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Technically, even morphine is natural. It’s just the natural opioid in poppies, extracted and concentrated.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 19 hours ago
I ferment my honey and it certainly makes me feel good.
69420@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s nothing. You should try my pureed nut spread with grape relish reduction paired with brioche bun.
Allero@lemmy.today 15 hours ago
I’d rather not taste your nut
MTZ@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I just had one about 20 minutes ago. 10/10
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Did you make one for David Amram?
ThunderQueen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Jokes aside, pizza really is a pretty healthy complete meal. As with all things, moderation is the most important factor.
BlueLineBae@midwest.social 1 day ago
A more accurate description would be an “imbalanced” meal. It contains ingredients that would give you needed nutrients, but at the wrong levels. Too much fat and carbs, vs “vegetables” which are also processed and full of added sugar and salt. It’s not the worst thing you could eat, but it isn’t great. To your point, that’s why moderation is so important.
ThunderQueen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That is highly dependent on how you make it. Same thing could be said for most meals. A homemade pizza will almost always be better for you than whatever crap dominos is peddling these days
volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz 16 hours ago
Absolutely. Even if I make pizza from scratch with whole wheat flour and homemade sauce, the amount of vegetables I can reasonably put in/on it is so limited. If I want to mimic a typical pizza as it is served in Germany, I need about 2 mushrooms for the whole thing. Even with the sauce, there is just so much sauce I can put on the dough - and so many veggies I can put on it - before it just becomes a soaky pie. And this is nowhere near a ratio I can really approve of. Our usual dishes consist of 50-80% vegetables. With pizza, I feel like we are just eating 50-80% dough.
Just because whole wheat is good, tomato sauce is good, veggies are good, and a bit of cheese is good, doesn’t mean the combo of it is anywhere near balanced and healthy. We usually balance it with a huge salad but honestly we just don’t like filling up on bread/dough, so we rarely eat pizza.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
If it’s homemade (including the sauce) on thin crust of proper bread dough (again, homemade) and you’re generous and careful with the toppings (avoiding salty and/or highly processed stuff), the only inherently imbalanced thing is the cheese (which is excessive for something that high in saturated fats).
Then again, homemade pizza done from scratch including the sauce and the bread dough takes more than an hour to make, so people overwhelmingly buy pizza already make (or at least ready to bake), and then it’s loaded crap because you really can’t trust industrial food.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
Yeah, so basically, a personal, pepperoni and mushroom flatbread pizza, and a salad, and like, a fistful of grapes or an apple.
That’s a reasonably healthy meal, provided you can keep the grease from the meat and cheeses to a reasonable level.
You could also replace salad with just… peas, carrots, beans, whatever, maybe you go with a mango or orange or something for the fruit, who knows.
And of course, if you make/acquire the ingredients for making your personal pan pizza, you have a lot more options for tweaking their nutritional content.
The whole wonderfulness of pizza is that its basically a blank canvas, that tends to work well if you can balance flavor profiles.
tomkatt@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Toss on some mushrooms, spinach leaf, and a bit of ground beef or sausage and you’re good to go.
arality@programming.dev 1 day ago
Ahh moderation, my arch nemesis.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
Everybody needs a goal to aim for, so I make sure to keep well away from reaching it so as not to lose it as a goal.
Rothe@piefed.social 17 hours ago
It really isn’t though. Low on fibres and high on carbs.
foo@feddit.uk 17 hours ago
Traditional pizza isn’t all that high in carbs. The US style pizza pies are.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
Lots of saturated fat on the cheese.
Beyond that with tin crust, homemade pizza tomato sauce (which is delish, by the way) and properly chosen and generously added toppings, it can be pretty healthy.
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
My homemade pizzas are always a mountain of toppings. I usually go with bell peppers, mushrooms, fresh onions cut in rings, and (un)canned tuna. Sometimes artichoke if I come by it, and/or olives if I have em around. Finish with mozzarella… now I’m hungry :(
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s just bread, it technically has other stuff but in insignificant amounts, it is literally cheese bread.
BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 22 hours ago
Moderation is the issue with pizza, at least for me.
I’ve been making pizza and pasta from scratch. It’s basically the exact same ingredients:
But when I’m making pizza I know that I can almost double the amount of flour because we are eating way more pizza than pasta.
gerryflap@feddit.nl 11 hours ago
Is it? I doubt there are many fibers in there. Unless you count the tomato sauce it doesn’t really contain a lot of vegetables either. I’d be really surprised if tomato sauce on the average pizza is healthy, it’s probably so over processed that all the fibers and vitamins etc are gone and it’s just a big carb nuke. And a pizza contains too much fat as well. A good pizza might be decent compared to most fast food, but I can’t imagine the average fastfood or supermarket pizza being a healthy meal.