Domino's is an international pizza chain that offer numerous menu items, including many styles and sizes of pizza. Domino's reports nutritional data for all menu items in a nutrition information sheet that includes serving size, calories, calories from fat, saturated fat, trans fat, total fat, cholesterol, sodium, dietary fiber, vitamin A, vitamin C, calcium, iron, carbohydrates, protein and total sugar.
Crusts
Domino's offers four types of crust in 2010: the hand-tossed, thin-crust, Brooklyn and deep-dish crusts. Although you can order pizzas in four sizes--the 10-inch small, 12-inch medium, 14-inch large and 16-inch extra-large--only the hand-tossed pizza is available in all sizes. The Brooklyn crust comes only in large and extra-large, the deep-dish is available only as medium or large, and the thin-crust is small, medium or large.
Sauces
Domino's offers five types of pizza sauces in addition to its standard tomato sauce. You can choose to add Alfredo, barbecue, garlic Parmesan, cheddar or hearty marinara sauce to your pizza. While marinara sauces range from 10 to 15 calories per serving, the heartier sauces such as garlic Parmesan add from 30 to 80 calories per slice of pizza, depending on pizza size. The garlic Parmesan sauce is also the fattiest, with up to 8 g total fat per serving, as opposed to zero for the standard tomato sauce. No Domino's sauces have any trans fat or fiber.
Calories
Calories go up as size goes up in all Domino's pizzas. The least caloric pizza with standard pizza sauce is the small thin-crust cheese pizza, at 1,440. Calories can theoretically be limitless depending on what you add to your pizza, as each sauce, vegetable, meat or other ingredient adds calories to your pie. The most-caloric standard pizzas on the Domino's menu are the extra-large American Legends pizzas, such as the Philly Cheese Steak pizza, which top out at 4,400 calories.
Fat and Cholesterol
As with calories, you get more fat and cholesterol if you eat a larger size of a Domino's pizza. However, no Domino's pizzas have any trans fat. The fattiest pizzas are the specialty Feast Pizzas, such as the Bacon Cheeseburger or MeatZZa pizzas, with up to 2,000 g fat in an extra-large pie. In terms of saturated fat and cholesterol, the specialty American Legends pizzas carry up to 92 g saturated fat and 480 mg cholesterol. The more meat and cheese you add to any pizza, however, the more fat and cholesterol you get, and you can exceed these figures if you add numerous ingredients to your pizza.
Variations
Although most Domino's pizzas start with a base of cheese, Domino's uses less cheese on pizzas with additional ingredients than it does on its basic cheese pizza. As a result, calorie counts for Domino's pizzas can end up being similar, depending on the sauces used. For example, the basic Domino's cheese pizza with tomato sauce ranges in calories from 1,440 to 3,000. However, if you add extra cheese and garlic Parmesan sauce to your extra-large cheese pizza, you end up with 4,560 calories, or more than the extra-large American Legends pizzas.
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