[Leaning Right]

I’ve read that many major pizza chains add sugar to their pizza dough. Why? Sugar can help in the baking process. But studies have shown that kids will eat more pizza when the crust (and sauce) is sweeter.

[Red Badger]

Sugar can help in the baking process.

Browns quicker...............

[Springman]

That’s why I won’t eat Pizza Hut anymore. The crust is too damn sweet!!!

[rjsimmon]

Sugar is something that bonds to our blood as sucrose breaks down in the duodenum into glucose and fructose, going directly into the blood stream and giving the body a rush of insulin. The body soon becomes addicted.

[1_Rain_Drop]

"I’ve read that many major pizza chains add sugar to their pizza dough. Why? Sugar can help in the baking process."

I think yeast needs sugar to ferment otherwise you'd get matza pizza.

I noticed that whenever a pizza is super fantastically tasty, there is sugar in the sauce. There is also one brand of spaghetti sauce which uses a lot of sugar.

[wbill]

add sugar to their pizza dough .....Yeah, you need to give the yeast something to gnaw on. I put 2 tablespoons in 3 pizza's worth of crust. Doesn't take much.

I'd imagine that the chains add quite a bit more than that. Sugar, salt, fat all taste good.