{"id":2653,"date":"2009-09-23T05:18:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T03:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=2653"},"modified":"2014-06-26T14:43:13","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T18:43:13","slug":"probiotic-pizza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/probiotic-pizza\/","title":{"rendered":"Probiotic Pizza?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are times I&#8217;m alternately fascinated and repelled by the stuff the food industry comes up with.\u00a0 On the one hand, I can&#8217;t really object to entrepreneurs pushing healthier versions of not-so-healthy-but-extremely-popular food products&#8230; but on the other hand, it seems somewhat exploitative too.\u00a0\u00a0Marketing\u00a0better quality \u00a0junk\/snack\/convenience foods as &#8220;healthy&#8221;\u00a0implies\u00a0that\u00a0consumers don&#8217;t really have to change their eating habits&#8230; just their product choices.\u00a0 In other words, they\u00a0can have their cake and eat it too&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nutraingredients-usa.com\/Suppliers2\/Gut-friendly-pizza-coming-to-a-neighborhood-near-you\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">or in this case, pizza<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The gut health market is growing, driven predominantly by yogurt shots from household names like Dannon, but if the vision and plans of a New Orleans-based archaeologist-turned-entrepreneur come to fruition, the gut-health market could soon be colonized by pizzas.<\/p>\n<p>Naked Pizza started in 2006 and is the brainchild of Jeff Leach, an archaeologist by trade and head of Paleobiotics Lab, a New Mexico-based independent research group investigating the implications of dietary and nutritional evolution and its bearing on modern health.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;The pizza crust is formulated with 12 types of whole grain, including amaranth and buckwheat, and fortified with Beneo Orafti\u2019s Synergy1 prebiotic, and Ganeden\u2019s heat resistant <em>Bacillus coagulans<\/em> strain, said Leach.<\/p>\n<p>A two-slice serving delivers a <em>Bacillus coagulans<\/em> payload of one billion colony forming units (cfu) and five grams of Synergy1, he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If\u00a0you&#8217;re going\u00a0to eat pizza, then one with added whole grains, prebiotic fiber and probiotic bacteria\u00a0will certainly be superior to what Pizza Hut or Papa John&#8217;s has to offer, although I&#8217;m\u00a0politely skeptical that\u00a0palliatives\u00a0like &#8220;Naked Pizza&#8221;\u00a0will ultimately &#8220;change the health of the nation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But, we&#8217;ll see.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/nrn.com\/corporate\/naked-pizza-eyes-expansion-new-investment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The company recently got a major boost from the Kraft Group<\/a>, and is planning to expand nationwide.\u00a0 If a franchise eventually opens nearby, I&#8217;ll have to check it out.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are times I&#8217;m alternately fascinated and repelled by the stuff the food industry comes up with.\u00a0 On the one hand, I can&#8217;t really object to entrepreneurs pushing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,14,28],"tags":[1146,1309,1310,1324,1787],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2653"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7728,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653\/revisions\/7728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}