Is pizza junk food?

Answer 1

Depends who made it and whats in it. I consider Pizza Hut junk food since it uses refined flour, oily fatty cheese, high calorie ingredients, high sugar and high salt. I would not consider home oven, whole grain flour, low in GI and low fat soy cheese, spinach, olives, avocado and sardines to be junk food. Pizza is just a peice of bread with toppings. It only becomes "junk" when it gives you more fat and calories than you daily recommended intake should be.

Heres my own recipe for a healthy pizza. Observe..




Use whole grain flour for the base, its low in GI which will give you more energy and less sugar glucose.

Use your own tomato paste, dice up 4 fresh tomatos, blend it in warm water and a teaspoon of salt, garlic and parsely. This way you dont have preservatives like you would in supermarkets.

Use low fat soy cheese (good source of protein and low in fat)

For toppings, choose a variation green olives, anchovies or sardines, sundried tomatoes or chilli, avocado pieces, spinach, tuna, spring onions, honey leg ham, capsicum (all three colours red, yellow and green).

Sprinkle fine pepper, little salt, spray a little olive oil on the pan, bake on 240 for 20-30 minutes. Check regularly. Dont let the spinach dry out by spray some olive oil on it or cover it with cheese.

Bon appetite. Enjoy.

Answer 2

Is Pizza Junk Food

Answer 3

Technically I think it is. There is a LOT of grease in pizzas that comes from the melting of the cheese. But a supreme pizza or something with lots of veggies is definitely more healthy than a triple meat pizza.
Then there are pizzas geared to be healthy. I don't think they taste as real as the good thing, but come close! Things like Whole Wheat Vegetable Pizza and Margherita pizzas are the best. Also check out Amy's pizzas. They are more pricey but definitely worth it!

Answer 4

I agree with the first answer in that it could be. If you're talking about anything from Pizza Hut or Dominoes, then yes. But if you're talking about some of the pizzas at California Pizza Kitchen or pizzas that you can make yourself with veggies and such, then no.

Cheers!

Answer 5

The Italians made the first ever pizza for a queen,Queen Margharita, so its not a poor mans dish as stated above really, the margharita pizza was the original, go on all google it, but it was, the colour of the Italian flag, tomato,mozz cheese and originally it had leaves of basil on it, i know coz i have been eating one a week,on ave, for around 25 years i guess, I'm fine, weigh 80kg, or around 170 pounds in Yankee doodle lingo, so I'm not fat or unhealthy, cholesterol level of around 4.9. get into them love, ad some garlic and some of the tomato sauce on top, yummo.

Answer 6

No, pizza is not junkfood. It was originally just a poor man's dish, something to fill the stomach and was cheap. The breaddough bottom was then covered with a few things that happened to be available.

Answer 7

I wouldn't say so. I think that pizza can be very nutritional with the right kind of toppings.

Answer 8

It depends on how it is made, what it contains. It can be a very good, nutritional dish.

Answer 9

It depends on the toppings-loads of meat and extra cheese bad,veggies and less cheese good.

Answer 10

it could be!!! but it could also be quite nutritional with the right topping like peppers, onions, mushrooms, plain roast chicken etc!!!!!!