7 Worst Pizzas
  • Hope you guys read my blog awhile back about my pizza challenge. Well, I do love pizza so when I read this article, I thought I would share.

    #7: Worst Supermarket Pizza
    DiGiorno For One Traditional Crust Supreme Pizza
    790 calories
    36 g fat (14 g saturated fat, 3 g trans fats)
    1,460 mg sodiumNo, it’s not delivery, but it is dangerous. This is how DiGiorno handles the personal pie: with 60 percent of your day’s sodium, 70 percent of your saturated fat, and more trans fat than you should consume in an entire day. If your heart had a voice box, it would be screaming in outrage.
    #6: Worst Multi-National Pizza
    California Pizza Kitchen Tostada Pizza with Grilled Steak (1/2 pie)
    840 calories
    16 g saturated fat
    1,649 mg sodium

    With a caloric heft like this, you’d expect this Tex-Mex pie to be massively portioned. It’s not. The big fatty price tag draws not from size, but from the combo effect of tortilla chips and ranch dressing. Switch to the equally interesting Four Seasons Pizza, which carries artichoke hearts, salami, mushroom, tomatoes, onions, and two cheeses, and you drop nearly 400 calories per half-pie serving.
    #5: Worst Single Slice
    Sbarro Stuffed Pepperoni Pizza
    960 calories
    42 g fat
    3,200 mg sodium

    Sbarro serves up elephantine slices, so you should know better than to order one that essentially consists of two of those slices folded one atop another. In this one wedge of pizza, Sbarro manages to pack in nearly as many calories as you’d find in four pepperoni slices from Pizza Hut! You want to survive the Sbarro super-slice challenge? Stick to a regular pie, nix the pepperoni and sausage, and limit yourself to one slice.

    #4: Worst Specialty Crust Pizza
    Pizza Hut Stuffed Crust Meat Lover’s Pizza (2 slices, 14” pie)
    960 calories
    52 g fat (24 g saturated, 1 g trans)
    2,780 mg sodium

    Around the perimeter of this pie is what essentially amounts to a hula-hoop ring of cheese. Gross, right? But it’s not just cheese. Also inside that ring: two types of sausage, ham, beef, and bacon. The impact of all those salt-cured meats is more than a day’s worth of sodium in each two-slice serving—oh, and as much saturated fat as a dozen Extra Crispy Drumsticks from KFC! Here’s a simple mnemonic device: Stuffed pizza = stuffed potbelly. Stick to thin crust and lean meats and you’ll live to eat well another day. 

    #3: Worst Flatbread
    Cosi Chicken Gorgonzola with Fig Flatbread with Traditional Crust
    1,073 calories
    41 g fat (9 g saturated)
    1,057 mg sodium

    At first blush, flatbread seems like a healthy version of pizza—especially when it comes adorned with fanciful toppings like Gorgonzola and figs. But let this be a lesson: Just because it’s fancy doesn’t mean it’s healthy. Cosi’s traditional crust is essentially the same carpet of bread you might find underneath a circular pie. The rules of pizza selection apply to flatbreads as well: Lean toppings, light cheese, and thin crust.
    #2: Worst Thin Crust Pizza
    Domino’s Brooklyn Style ExtravaganZZa Feast Pizza (2 slices 16” pie)
    1,180 calories
    60 g fat (27 g saturated)
    3,420 mg sodium

    To be fair, Domino’s Brooklyn Style isn’t promoted as thin crust, but it was created with fold-ability in mind. That requires slices that are soft, thin, and—in Domino’s case—massive. The typical Domino’s pie comes sliced into eighths, but order the Brooklyn-inspired pie and you’ll get only six slices. What happened to the other two slices? They were absorbed—along with their calories, fat, and sodium—into the other slices. Your better option is to build your own pie on a legitimate thin crust. Top that pie chicken and chorizo and you cut out 730 calories. Do that a couple times a week and you’ll cut close to two pounds of flab per month.
    #1: Worst Pizza in America
    Uno Chicago Grill Chicago Classic Deep Dish Pizza (Individual)
    2,310 calories
    162 g fat (54 g saturated fat)
    4,920 mg sodium

    Wait, wait, wait. This is a one-person pizza? Yup. All 2,310 calories are destined for one soon-to-be expanding belly. This pie has been a perennial pick for us over the past three years, and the reason is simple: No other personal pizza in the country even begins to approach these numbers. It breaks every single caloric recommendation on the books, and it does it under the guise of a must-have “classic” dish. With the country being plagued by obesity, Uno should have the decency to banish—or significantly improve—this dish.

    FULL ARTICLE: http://health.yahoo.net/experts/eatthis/7-worst-pizzas-america


    September 21st, 2010 | Stewart | 1 Comment |

Thanks for reading!

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  • Jess 09.21.2010

    Wow! I’ve never had any these specific pies, and now with all this awesome info, I never will!

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