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Originally Posted by honeythorn
Reading the quote they are not saying pizza as in the entire meal/snack/whatever is a vegetable, only the tomato paste used on it. Which is of course incorrect as Tomatoes are a fruit as JCC pointed out.
Why they feel the need to classify it or point out it's "healthy" is beyond me since commercial pizzas are death and fat in a box. Though I have no doubt the companies who import or grow the Tomatos used in the paste will make more money.
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Congress made pizza a vegetable specifically for school lunch purposes. There are laws requiring that public schools serve vegetables. Now they can list pizza on the menu without also having to serve a side of
actual vegetables. Which is the reason so many people are concerned about all of this. It's not so much about what people choose to eat at home.
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Originally Posted by Saya
That pisses me off though because there are veggies I don't count as my serving of veggies for the day because they aren't very nutritious, like onions or potatoes. If tomato is in because its nutritious, then potato should be out.
I think what they should do is instead of saying "Okay, this many servings of vegetables a day" they should say things like "okay, this many servings of leafy greens, this many servings of root vegetables" and have a chart to see what's interchangable. Its more complicated but most people get most of their daily vegetable servings from potatoes, and rounding off your pizza with french fries just sounds like what the frozen food industry is pushing for a good meal.
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I don't eat nightshades, so I'm not exactly the biggest fan of potatoes. That said, the reason french fries or onion rings are so awful for you probably has a lot more to do with the rancid seed oils they're fried in - the potatoes and onions themselves aren't causing the heart attacks (onions are actually quite good at reducing inflammation, and both are high in vitamin C).