Scottland and the healthy pizza

Scottland and the healthy pizza

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The more traditional, Italian-style pizzas have thinner bases and less cheese, so they’re a bit healthier. The majority of pizzas that we buy in the supermarkets are laden with fat – that means they’re full of fat. But there is good news on the horizon for pizza lovers in the UK…

But there is a nutritionist from Scotland has helped to produce a range of pizzas which are nutritionally balanced. They contain the right number of calories, plus all of the vitamins and minerals you need in one meal. Being actually a perfect pizza. It was designed by entrepreneur Donnie MacLean and professor Mike Lean from Glasgow University.

This is the reason why did they decide to design the pizza:

Professor Mike Lean: 

Of the hundreds and thousands of pizzas on the market they vary enormously in what they contain. Not one of them, up until now, has been properly balanced for all the nutrients. But some have the right amount of fat, some have the right amount of saturated fat; some have actually the right amount of salt, very few. Nobody has thought about it, nobody has designed a nutritionally balanced meal so I got together with Donnie to try to do this.

Professor Lean and entrepreneur Donnie MacLean began tweaking the recipe. Red pepper in the tomato sauce adds more vitamin C. There‟s full fat mozzarella, just not too much of it. And a secret ingredient – Hebridean seaweed – hidden in the base to provide iron, calcium, zinc and… “…as way of reducing the salt level „cause the sodium content of seaweed is about 3.5% compared to 40% in salt.” These pizzas are more expensive because they are the best.

The Hebridean seaweed – so seaweed taken from the islands off the west coast of Scotland called the Hebrides, provides a lot of the minerals you need to keep you healthy, and it has a lower sodium content than salt, so the pizza is less salty and therefore better for you.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-18663969

Mr Maclean and Prof Lean come up with unusual ways of incorporating more nutrients into a pizza