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Question: What health benefits can you get from a?
pizza? Some say its a good source of protein and others say it's not. What can I do to make it HIGH in protein?

Answers:

My answer from a previous question today ( )
Bread: Most pizza is made with processed white flour. White flour has had the outer bran and the endosperm removed. After that, it is artificially colored white and has had some of the nutrients artificially removed. I generally only eat white bread and pasta in pregnancy, when it's better than nothing.

Cheese: Fatty and greasy when cooked/fried.

Pepperoni-- Red meat. Also fatty and greasy when fried or baked.

Vegetables and Fruit: I generally only put mushrooms, black olives and pineapple on my pizza. However, the mushrooms and olives are canned and contain high sodium.

We make our pizza at home with whole wheat crust, jarred vegan tomato pasta sauce, often no cheese or vegan cheese, pineapples and what ever else looks good. I have put tofu on it, veggie "pepperoni" slices (my meat-eating husband likes the Morningstar Farms ones best), veggie crumbles... I suppose the dairy cheese and the meat would up the protein count, but at what exchange-- the extra fat and grease?

The next time you go to Pizza Hut, Domino's, etc. look at the grease on the pizza. Take a paper napkin (or ten) and press it on top. Look at what is on the napkin and what could have gone in your body. Appetizing, eh?

There are a few places where I will have restaurant pizza. When I do, I order the smallest one and put on mushrooms and either pineapple or black olives. (I generally share one with my three-year-old daughter, so I let her decide. My husband is not vegetarian and he agrees that she does not need the greasy, processed cheese.)



Pizza will have high protein if you load it with meat and cheese. Unfortunately it will also be high in fat and carbohydrate. To make it healthier have a thin base pizza, only have a thin layer of cheese and load it with lean chicken and plenty of vegs like sweetcorn and peppers mushrooms etc.



It is a good source of many nutrients and they help sustain you.




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