Posted on 01/17/2025 10:52:51 AM PST by DallasBiff
Pizza is the United States' favorite junk food, hitting top spot in 37 out of 50 states, but nutrition experts say it doesn't have to be an unhealthy choice.
"Pizza can be a balanced meal if prepared with wholesome ingredients," Amani Kaite, lecturer at the Institute for Optimum Nutrition, told Newsweek.
"It can provide high-quality protein from toppings like chicken or salmon, calcium from fresh cheese, antioxidants such as lycopene from fresh tomato sauce and fiber from wholegrain crusts and vegetables.
"Vegetable toppings, such as spinach, mushrooms and peppers also add vitamins A and C, magnesium and potassium, which support immunity and heart health."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
My favorite junk food now are Reese's cups, I hated them as a kid, but now like Winston Smith, I learned to love them.
Have fun, its friday, and Trump will be inaugriated on monday.
Permission has been granted, it seems. But this may be rescinded and bugs may be mandatory in the near future.
My favorite Junk Food is LOBSTER....................
Pizza is junk food?
So rather than actually seeing what people are, they just used numbers of Google searches and got pizza, chili or pizza and chili for every state. That’s weak even for Newsweak.
Well, yeah. True for everything. Except pizza.
I also developed my own special tasty nacho.
Doritoes with Swiss Cheese and jalapenoes.
Then there's Japan...
You can have so many variations of toppings on pizza.
“ nutrition experts say it doesn’t have to be an unhealthy choice”
This says a lot about their “experts”! The pizza I eat is always healty. Exactly which pizza is not a healthy choice?
Pizza is HEALTH FOOD.
I call BS.
Chili?
Banana Bread?
Anything from McDonalds?
Nonsense.
Larry Groce - Junk Food Junkie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQnIL-XPerQ
the map says banana bread is the favorite dessert of NJ. I call BS to this map, I’ve lived my whole life in NJ (pity me) and I can’t even think of a time I’ve seen banana bread on a menu or for sale in a store here. It probably is but definitely no front and center like such a fave would be. If you beleive this map Banana bread and frozen yugurt are the top desserts nationwide. as my old depression era dad would say - Bushwa!
“Vegetable toppings, such as spinach, mushrooms and peppers also add vitamins A and C, magnesium and potassium...”
Also great ways to ruin a pizza
“Lobstah is for the common folks.”
-Some Guy in the 19th Century
I used to live near one of those Mm! Mm! Pizza locations. It was very good.
It ain’t pizza without anchovies.
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