Scientist Creates Healthy Pizza You Can Eat for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

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A pizza so healthy you could eat it every meal? Where do I sign up?

A U.K. scientist, with what has got to be the coolest concentration, has concocted what he calls the first nutritionally balanced pizza. The pie contains 30 percent of an adult’s recommended amount of vitamins and minerals with a third of the recommended calories, protein and carbohydrate. The secret lies in an ingredient from down under: seaweed.

Co-creator Mike Lean of Galsgow University explains:

I researched the market and found that seaweed was an interesting new ingredient being used in artisan bread. So we used that as a way of reducing the salt level. The sodium content of seaweed is about 3.5% compared to 40% in salt. There’s iodine in there, vitamin B12, all sorts of things. And the flavour is excellent as well.

At least one major British supermarket chain already says it’ll sell the nutritional pizzas, which will retail at a higher cost than typical frozen pizzas. Lean already has his sights on testing nutritionally balanced fish and chips, curry and other junk food.

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