Saturday 7 June 2008

Pizza

Links to sodium content listings for a couple of popular pizza restaurants. Well done to those who publish them online - I have emailed a few other companies to get their details. Zizzis/Ask inform me that they do not have sodium content details for their foods.

All of the options are pretty high, but it seems that by avoiding cheese and meat you can reduce your sodium intake. All figures are g sodium per 100g. 1 slice of pizza could be more or less than 100g, depending on the size of pizza.

Pizza Hut
Lowest: Large Pan base Vegetarian Supreme 0.32g
Highest: Individual sized Hot N Spicy Italian base 0.92g

Take a look at the "Salt per Food Portion" column of the kids menu. Shocking figures when you think that the recommended daily intake of salt for a 6 year old is 3g.

Dominos
Lowest: Hawaiian 0.2g - and most vegetarian pizzas came in at about 0.4g
Highest: New Yorker 1.6g

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