Pizza used to be very good, nutritious, filling and healthy. Not true today. One of the worst and unhealthy food to eat now-a-days is commercial pizza. You know why? Over time that has changed and especially here in America where every corner of any major cities are filled with pizza chains. These chains put most of these pizza shops out of business. Fresh ingredients were replaced with preservatives, cheap and fatty ingredients that could be mass-produced, frozen and shipped across the country.
What a pity that most Americans have never eaten pizza and confuse it for the junk food advertised on television. In Italy there are laws defining pizza, which set allowances on the type of flour, tomato, mozzarella, olive oil, basil and oregano. Pizza is inherently nutritious and filling. Street corner pizza shops in Philadelphia , New York and other large cities kept close to the original idea of simple, fresh ingredients. Then came the pizza chains, which put most local shops out of business. Fresh ingredients were replaced with preservative-laden, cheap and fatty ingredients that could be mass-produced, frozen and shipped across the country. Commercial pizza is now a high-calorie, high-fat, high-sodium, low-nutrient food.
