Uno Chicago Grill is a chain of restaurants offering artisanal fare and bar favorites. The restaurants are probably best known for their deep-dish Chicago style pizzas. Before ordering your next pizza at the restaurant, be aware of the nutritional implications.
Types
Uno Chicago Grill offers two styles of pizza: thin crust and deep dish. The thin crust comes in BBQ Chicken, Lobster BLT, Cheese and Tomato, Roasted Eggplant, Spinach and Feta, Mediterranean, Spicy Chicken, Pepperoni, Sausage, Four Cheese and Harvest Vegetable. Any of these pizzas may be orders on a multigrain or white flour crust. The deep dish pizza, featuring a buttery, thick and flaky crust come Cheese and Tomato, Pepperoni and Classic featuring sausage and mozzarella. Other deep dish options are the Numero Uno with sausage, pepperoni, mushrooms and peppers and the Famers Market, Spinoccoli featuring spinach, broccoli and feta. UNO also offers a chicken fajita pizza with chicken, salsa onions and a cheese blend. The deep dish pizzas may be ordered as individually-sized pizzas or as regular-sized pizzas to share. Gluten-free options are also available.
Calories, Carbohydrates and Proteins
Each individually-sized deep dish pizza contains three servings and larger pizzas contain six servings, according to the restaurants' nutrition information. In one serving of the Cheese and Tomato deep dish pizza, you get 580 calories, 39 g of carbohydrates and 21 g of protein. Since the pizza is labeled for "an individual," you are likely to eat the whole thing and consume 1,740 calories. Most of the other deep dish options are even higher in calories -- The Classic contains 770 calories per serving, the Numero Uno 640 calories, the Spinocolli 620 calories and the pepperoni 610 calories. The lowest calorie options are the Farmer's Market, with 540 calories per serving, and the Chicken Fajita with 520 calories per serving. Each thin crust pizza also contains three servings, but far fewer calories. The cheese and tomato thin crust contains just 280 calories, 33 g of carbohydrates and 11 g of protein. The whole pie comes in at 840 calories. Other thin crust flavors range in calorie from 290 to 360 calories. The only exception is the Lobster BLT thin crust pizza which offers 510 calories per serving.
Fat
UNO's pizzas also feature a large amount of fat. The deep dish pies contain from 35 g to 55 g of fat for each serving. The Chicken Fajita deep dish offers 10 g of saturated fat, almost two-thirds of your daily allotment, while other flavors contain between 12 and 18 g of saturated fat. The American Heart Association recommends limiting saturated fat intake to less than 7 percent of total daily calories. If you are on a 2,000-calorie diet, this is just 15 g per day. If you eat an entire "individual" classic pizza, you will take in 165 g of fat, 54 g of which is saturated. The thin crust pizzas contain less fat, between 11 g and 17 g per serving.
Vitamins and Minerals
Most of UNO's pizza's provide 8 to 20 percent of the recommended dietary allowance for iron. Pizzas with vegetable toppings provide between 20 and 45 percent of the RDA for vitamin A and vitamin C. The pizzas are a source of calcium, due to the generous portions of cheese. Some versions, such as the cheese and tomato thin or deep dish and the harvest vegetable provide over 30 percent of the RDA.
Considerations
By ordering a multigrain crust over a white flour crust, you increase the amount of fiber in your pizza by 2 g per serving. Most of UNO's pizzas are high in sodium, ranging from 560 mg per serving in the Roasted Eggplant, Spinach and Feta Thin Crust to over 1,550 mg in a Classic deep dish pie. The Institute of Medicine recommends keeping your sodium intake to less than 1,500 mg per day. The healthiest options for UNO pizzas are vegetable toppings on multigrain flat crusts.
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