# Is possible to have a healthy pizza?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-possible-to-have-a-healthy-pizza/700416>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 4, 2014, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-possible-to-have-a-healthy-pizza/700416 "2014-10-04T23:21:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-possible-to-have-a-healthy-pizza/700416/41 "2014-10-08T04:22:13Z")

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Before or after we have pizza?

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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-possible-to-have-a-healthy-pizza/700416/42 "2014-10-08T05:03:50Z")

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Using eggplant instead of a regular crust would make it more like moussaka than pizza. But you’d still need some white sauce. (I **do** love moussaka too! :o )

BTW, I’ve had seafood pizza with béchamel instead of tomato sauce. It was superb!

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**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-possible-to-have-a-healthy-pizza/700416/43 "2014-10-08T05:22:50Z")

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> [@Helena330](#):
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> I love pizza with a passion. I know you didn’t ask about frozen pizzas, but I’ve found the frozen Amy’s organic pizzas to be very good. They’re about 300 calories for a third of a pizza so when I go batsh!t and eat the whole thing over the course of a day, that’s not too bad. :o

Wow. You consider eating 900 calories of pizza over the course of your _entire day_, “going batshit”? 😛

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**Author:** ![misling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@misling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misling)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2014, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-possible-to-have-a-healthy-pizza/700416/44 "2014-10-09T20:02:18Z")

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So far as I have been able to determine by search and by experimentation, there is no such thing as a healthy pizza for me. I am on a very low salt diet. Every ingredient of a pizza is salty, and subbing all or most of them makes it basically ‘not pizza’.

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**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2014, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-possible-to-have-a-healthy-pizza/700416/45 "2014-10-11T09:28:08Z")

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Vegan cheese substitute isn’t that bad…it’s not quite the same texture as cheese, but it’s definitely not tofu-like. It’s very tasty with a good tomato sauce and lots of veggies.

I’ve also had cheeseless pizzas that are very good. Surprisingly, the toppings pretty much stay in place. One of these cheeseless pizzas used hummus as a substitute for tomato sauce – very good with veggies, as long as it isn’t cooked too long.

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