Pizza and Health - Pizza Benefits Tomato Sauce represent one of the basic and most used components of pizza toping. In its structure tomato contains Lycopene (tomatoes processed into sauce have more lycopene in it than unprocessed ones) which is known to be powerful antioxidant which helps in fight against many different types of cancer. Studies have shown that people who eat pizza at least once a week have a smaller chance to get ill for several forms of cancer (mouth, stomach, lung, prostate and more). Some of the other ingredients have positive effect on our metabolism - olive oil reduces bad cholesterol and increase good one and prevent heart diseases, Mozzarella cheese is rich with fats, protein, calcium and sodium, garlic is rich with selenium, manganese, vitamin C and other beneficial compounds, oregano is a good source of vitamin K, manganese, fiber and oils.
Posted on: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 12:25:43 +0000
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