Pizza, an Italian food that is popular all over the world. Pizza’s main ingredients are pizza dough, pizza sauce, and sprinkled with various ingredients according to the name of the pizza topping. For example, Hawaiian is sprinkled with pineapple, ham, bacon, and cheese. Seafood topping is sprinkled with cheese, shrimp, mussels, squid, pizza sauce, and salmon. It will be sprinkled with smoked salmon. In addition, it is sprinkled with various vegetables such as bell peppers, mushrooms, onions, black olives, basil, and the indispensable item on the pizza menu is mozzarella cheese. The gooey cheese we see on pizza. Make it look delicious. The aroma makes you hungry even though the pizza is a delicious menu. But in ingredients, especially cheese, there is a large amount of saturated fatty acids. This makes it a menu that is recommended not to be eaten very often. Because of the consumption of large amounts of saturated fat or excessive or frequent consumption In the long run, it will cause accumulation in the body. May cause negative effects, resulting in higher levels of bad cholesterol (LDL), increasing the risk of fat blockages along the artery walls. This causes blood vessels to constrict and cause stroke. coronary heart disease It is also a cause of chronic non-communicable diseases such as obesity and heart disease. The Food Institute collected 5 pizza samples from 4 brands sold in supermarkets in Bangkok and surrounding areas. To analyze the amount of saturated fatty acids The analysis found that in 100 grams (1 scoop) of pizza, the amount of saturated fatty acids is in the range of 3.4-4.6 grams for general Thai people aged 3 years and older and in normal health. The recommended amount for consuming saturated fat should not exceed 20 grams per day. You can already see results like this. It is recommended that pizza lovers be mindful of the amount they eat each time so that their body does not exceed the recommended amount of saturated fat per day. Don’t forget that other foods that we eat every day may also contain more or less saturated fat. For safety and disease-free. Thairath + Food Institute, Food Safety Project, click to read column “It comes with food.” More
