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BlueLineBae@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

A more accurate description would be an “imbalanced” meal. It contains ingredients that would give you needed nutrients, but at the wrong levels. Too much fat and carbs, vs “vegetables” which are also processed and full of added sugar and salt. It’s not the worst thing you could eat, but it isn’t great. To your point, that’s why moderation is so important.

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Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
If it’s homemade (including the sauce) on thin crust of proper bread dough (again, homemade) and you’re generous and careful with the toppings (avoiding salty and/or highly processed stuff), the only inherently imbalanced thing is the cheese (which is excessive for something that high in saturated fats).

Then again, homemade pizza done from scratch including the sauce and the bread dough takes more than an hour to make, so people overwhelmingly buy pizza already make (or at least ready to bake), and then it’s loaded crap because you really can’t trust industrial food.

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sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yeah, so basically, a personal, pepperoni and mushroom flatbread pizza, and a salad, and like, a fistful of grapes or an apple.

That’s a reasonably healthy meal, provided you can keep the grease from the meat and cheeses to a reasonable level.

You could also replace salad with just… peas, carrots, beans, whatever, maybe you go with a mango or orange or something for the fruit, who knows.

And of course, if you make/acquire the ingredients for making your personal pan pizza, you have a lot more options for tweaking their nutritional content.

The whole wonderfulness of pizza is that its basically a blank canvas, that tends to work well if you can balance flavor profiles.

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volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Absolutely. Even if I make pizza from scratch with whole wheat flour and homemade sauce, the amount of vegetables I can reasonably put in/on it is so limited. If I want to mimic a typical pizza as it is served in Germany, I need about 2 mushrooms for the whole thing. Even with the sauce, there is just so much sauce I can put on the dough - and so many veggies I can put on it - before it just becomes a soaky pie. And this is nowhere near a ratio I can really approve of. Our usual dishes consist of 50-80% vegetables. With pizza, I feel like we are just eating 50-80% dough.

Just because whole wheat is good, tomato sauce is good, veggies are good, and a bit of cheese is good, doesn’t mean the combo of it is anywhere near balanced and healthy. We usually balance it with a huge salad but honestly we just don’t like filling up on bread/dough, so we rarely eat pizza.

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tomkatt@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Toss on some mushrooms, spinach leaf, and a bit of ground beef or sausage and you’re good to go.

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ThunderQueen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
That is highly dependent on how you make it. Same thing could be said for most meals. A homemade pizza will almost always be better for you than whatever crap dominos is peddling these days

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- Tonava@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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  - BurgerBaron@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    A thin crust veggie pizza is awesome but I’m not sacrificing the amount of cheese so I just eat less pizza :(
    
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- Rothe@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It doesn’t really change that its main component is bread and cheese, with a very low content of vegetables. But sure, better than the extremely low bar you set for yourself.
  
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- BlueLineBae@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  That’s fair. I don’t even want to know what a Jack’s pizza is made out of. Probably compacted crack.
  
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