Breakfast pizza, similar to ordinary cheese pizza or an omelet on crust, can be made using eggs, ham, bacon and a variety of other ingredients such as Parmesan cheese, chives, shallots and vegetables. Domino's, the national chain pizza restaurant, has recently rolled out a new menu item in one Dayton, Ohio, store. The New York Daily News Reports that Domino's breakfast pizza is made with eggs and cheese with your choice of ham, onions, sausage and other toppings.
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According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Nutrient Database, one slice of a typical fast-food cheese pizza contains 272 calories, 9.8 grams of fat, 33.6 g of carbohydrates, 1.8 g of fiber and 551 g of sodium. One serving of a frozen pizza with meat and vegetable topping contains about 489 calories and 25.5 g of fat.
Eggs
What distinguishes ordinary pizza from breakfast pizza is eggs. According to the USDA, one large, scrambled egg has 91 calories with 6.7 g of fat. A scrambled egg made by a fast-food restaurant contains 99.5 calories with about 7.5 g of fat, just slightly more than what you would get from a homemade recipe.
Toppings
Like ordinary pizza, with a breakfast pizza your topping options are seemingly endless. Note, however, that with each additional topping, the nutrition data for your meal will also change. Depending on the toppings you choose, your calorie count might skyrocket, as with meats like ham and sausage, or your vitamin and mineral count can increase, like with vegetables. Taste of Home, a website that publishes easy to cook family-friendly recipes, offers a breakfast pizza recipe using thinly sliced deli ham, American cheese, pork sausage, scrambled eggs and part-skim mozzarella cheese. One slice has 460 calories, 22 g of fat, 120 milligrams cholesterol, 1,366 mg sodium, 36 g carbs, 1 g fiber and 27 g protein.
Making Pizza Healthy
Pizza does not have to be junk food. According to an article by Charles Q. Choi, published by Live Science, whole-wheat pizza dough can boost antioxidants, which are compounds that reduce damage to organs and tissues by DNA-damaging molecules known as free radicals. Antioxidants are believed to reduce your chances of developing certain cancers and other diseases. Researchers investigated antioxidant levels in whole-wheat pizza dough baked at various lengths and temperatures. Allowing pizza dough to bake longer--about 14 minutes--and at a higher temperature--about 500 degrees--may improve antioxidant action.
Pizza Benefits
Reporter Claudia Zapata writes in My San Antonio, the website for the San Antonio Express-News, that every pizza starts out with great health potential. Adding vegetables to your breakfast pizza can boost vitamin and nutrient intake. Tomato sauce is high in vitamin C and lycopene, another antioxidant. Cheese, a top calorie contributor, can add a lot of saturated fat to your meal, but 1 ounce of part-skim mozzarella cheese contains 71 calories, 4 g fat as well as 22 percent of the recommended daily allowance of calcium, according to the USDA.
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