Hands up those who like pizza.
Well, hardly a hand not up in the air.
So what is so good about pizza?
Hands up for taste. Well that's about half of you.
Hands up if its cost. Once again that's about half of you.
Now hands up for convenience. Goodness gracious, every hand is up.
Yes pizza is nothing if it's not convenient. From the respectability of malls and the high street pizzerias, to the road side parlours or to the coolers in your supermarket or local convenience store pizza is everywhere.
So why am I picking on pizza.
I want pizza to become more healthy.
The problems now with pizza that you buy are the cost to one's health, first and foremost, for all takers.
Then there is the good food for which it may be an alternative,
But way down, there is for some, the price. As I'll explain in due course it really isn't worth anything if it affects your health.
Well, hardly a hand not up in the air.
So what is so good about pizza?
Hands up for taste. Well that's about half of you.
Hands up if its cost. Once again that's about half of you.
Now hands up for convenience. Goodness gracious, every hand is up.
Yes pizza is nothing if it's not convenient. From the respectability of malls and the high street pizzerias, to the road side parlours or to the coolers in your supermarket or local convenience store pizza is everywhere.
So why am I picking on pizza.
I want pizza to become more healthy.
The problems now with pizza that you buy are the cost to one's health, first and foremost, for all takers.
Then there is the good food for which it may be an alternative,
But way down, there is for some, the price. As I'll explain in due course it really isn't worth anything if it affects your health.
Health. The stuff of which they are made.
The food for which they are an alternative.
The food of which they are made
The basic concept:- a slab of dough with a variety of mostly savoury toppings which is baked.
the dough:- It is by virtue of this that the pizza is a potent source of refined carbohydrate. The flour is mostly white and mostly therefore of little fibre.
It is cooked at great heat to produce the beginnings of burned crust and therefore offers a spectrum of carbonised chemicals including acrylamides which may contribute to gut cancer. Like bread it has a high glycemic index and should be said to be diabetogenic and at the very least a fattening product.
the toppings:-these can be what you like but mostly when bought they are dairy, very spicy and strong savory salami type sausage, ham, bacon and other salty products (olives,anchovies, capers, dill cucumbers) and sometime salted chillies.
Yes some offer a sprinkling of rocket,and other saladings, and some garlic and onions. With luck any greens will go on after it has been baked. It is fair to say that the meat mentioned is hardly likely to be the best. This is simply because thin sliced, pulled, broken and sizzling hot in a caramelised and savoury milieu its fat is unnoticed and really knowing what animal it comes from could be impossible to tell.
The cost. Pizzerias charge something like twenty five times the material costs for a pizza. Of course their overheads have to be made and they provide a nice place to dine which brings up the matter of...
Convenience:- In or out of house, its made for you and it’s not grossly prohibitive cost wise, a glass of wine, a starter, finish with a sweet and you have
the makings of a visually present and filling meal all without thinking . It’s so conveniently a meal that its seductive, kid’s love it and that makes it very popular.
However people should think about not eating pizza for it is, in most situations, really unhealthy.Fundamentally unhealthy because overcooked and burned crust dough is unhealthy and because most of the toppings are unhealthy.The food for which they are an alternative
First and foremost would be healthy 'pizza'and this needs defining and after that any wholesome meal.
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