Many thanks to eagle eyed blog reader and tweeter Kristen Schlag who spotted some discrepancies over at Dominos regarding their new line of "artisan" pizzas.
What'd she notice?
Well according to their hover over and menu based descriptions, these pizzas "Serve 2".
Personally, when looking at the photo of the pizzas as a whole I'd argue that a 2 person serving, in the real world, ain't gonna happen, and that most certainly these $7.99 pizzas are designed and expected to serve just one.
But here's the neat trick part.
Looking at the nutritional information page for the pizzas you'll learn that according to Dominos per artisan pizza there are eight servings - with the Artisan Spinach and Feta pizza, each of those servings is listed as just 62g (2oz).
If Dominos were even remotely interested in doing right by their customers, these pizzas' nutritional information would be listed per pizza.
So I'll help them out.
Artisan Italian Sausage and Pepper Trio: 1,280 calories, 2,640mg sodium
Artisan Spinach and Feta: 1,200 calories, 2,000mg sodium
Artisan Tuscan Salami and Roasted Veggies: 1,200 calories, 2,240mg sodium
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ReplyDeleteMy advice: Get a new one.
Who thinks pizza is food?
ReplyDeleteFor today, I will give up sugars, grains, lubricants, and manufactured eatable products and see how I feel about it tomorrow.
Excellent post! And yikes, that's a long list of ingredients.
ReplyDeleteBeyond just the calories and sodium, it's worth mentioning that there's hydrogenated oil in there, too, which means it contains trans fats. Since the serving sizes are so small, they can round the amount trans fats down to zero on the label. A whole pizza could conceivably contain just under 4 grams of trans fats.
There's no safe intake level for trans fats. Even if we go with the American Heart Association's more liberal recommendation (they say that 2 grams per day is an absolute maximum) this is probably way over the top!
Scary list of ingredients. Since that pizza contains soybean oil, it likely comes from GMO beans of the Monsanto variety, and would have been extracted using the neurotoxin hexane, the latter being a substantial component in gasoline. Ref: http://smallbites.andybellatti.com/?p=6745 . Happy eating.
ReplyDeleteand nutrition facts labels accept a 15% error margin or something like that so it could be a lot worse than what they're writing too!!
ReplyDeleteWant pizza? make it at home!!
half a whole weat pita, a little all natural tomato sauce, lots of delicious veggies and topped with a reasonable amount of cheese!
I think pizza is great food! I make homemade pizza from scratch - even the dough for the crust. My husband and I share a 9 1/2" x 14 1/2" pizza. Each pizza contains a little over a cup of flour, around 150 grams of cheese, some meat and tons of veg. I figure that's at least 1200 calories per pizza, maybe a bit more depending on the toppings.
ReplyDeleteThere's nothing magically unhealthy about pizza - unless you're a low fat (cheese!) or low carb (crust!) fanatic. It's a lovely balanced meal in one dish. Mine's better than takeout, but again, the takeout stuff is not magically unhealthy either.
With food labelling laws here in Australia, you can claim whatever damn fictional "serving size" you like and provide the nutritional details for that, but you are also required to provide the figures for 100grams of the food, which allows for more meaningful data, especially when comparing different brands of a product in the supermarket.
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised more countries don't take that approach.
Tried the Artisan Spinach and Feta pizza last night and woke up thirsty, so knew eating half of this pizza (which is my serving size) was not healthy. The same thing happens with KFC. I'm suprised at the amount of sodium and flavor enhancers they can pack into small piece of pizza. Unfortunately they don't have the ingredients and calorie content on the box when pizza is delivered.
ReplyDeleteI think you are being rather pedantic with this. They clearly say that one pizza is meant to serve 2 people. They say that each slice is 150 calories. It's awfully easy to do the math, and find that if two people split one, they are eating about 600 calories. As for what it's "meant" to serve, well, my husband and I split one, and are both full afterward. I COULD eat a whole pizza, like i used to, but then I'd feel sick afterward. People are used to eating WAY too much at one sitting.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with Cathy W. This is a pizza meant to serve 2. If you are eating an entire pizza by yourself, perhaps that's the problem?
ReplyDeleteIt's meant to serve two because seriously, who eats ONE slice of pizza? This spinach feta pizza is so yummy. Who cares about technicalities about 2 ounce serving sizes?? If you are ordering TAKEOUT PIZZA you're clearly taking the day off from your "diet," so kick back and enjoy the damn pizza.
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