How to use pizza cheese

Pizza cheese is a delicious food that is discussed a lot about its usefulness or harmfulness, this food can be healthier if you follow the tips in consuming it.

Mozzarella pizza cheese is originally made from buffalo milk, but is now based on cow’s milk.

This cheese, white and sometimes yellow, is a semi-solid composition in terms of texture. In general, two types of pizza cheese are produced in Iran; The first type is pastafila or mozzarella, which is actually the main pizza cheese, and the second type is processed pizza cheese, in which the fat and protein used are of dairy origin (such as butter, casein and caseinate); But in its vegetable type, its source of fat, vegetable and protein is dairy.

Processed pizza cheese usually has 15% fat, 18% protein and 1% salt, which if it contains vegetable fat, 17% protein. The low-fat type of mozzarella cheese has 18% fat and the high-fat type has 22% fat, 17% protein and 1% salt.

Pizza cheese also contains other compounds such as vitamins B6, B12, A, E, K, magnesium, copper and zinc, but in smaller amounts.

Prevention of the effects of pizza cheese

Simultaneous use of pizza cheese with lots of vegetables makes its unhealthy substances less absorbed into the blood and thus reduces its harms.

The fat in pizza cheese is not good because it is saturated and trans fat.

Trans fatty acids increase the process of stretching pizza cheese, and in fact, the process of stretching pizza cheese significantly reduces its quality.

Trans fatty acids damage blood vessels, so heart patients are advised not to eat pizza cheese as much as possible or to eat plenty of vegetables.

Simultaneous use of pizza cheese with plenty of cooked or raw vegetables makes the unhealthy ingredients of pizza cheese less absorbed.

A 100 gram slice of pizza cheese contains the following ingredients:

• Energy 300 kcal
• Carbohydrates 2.2 g
• One gram of simple sugar
• One gram of dietary fiber
• Fat 22 grams
• Protein 22 g
• Calcium 500 mg
• Phosphorus 350 mg
• Potassium 80 mg
• Sodium 630 mg
• Riboflavin 0.5 mg
• Thiamine 0.4 mg (B group vitamin)
• Niacin 3.4 mg (B group vitamin)
• Folate 96 micrograms
• Selenium 25 micrograms

Heart patients are advised not to eat pizza cheese as much as possible or to eat with lots of vegetables.

Simultaneous use of pizza cheese with plenty of cooked or raw vegetables makes the unhealthy ingredients of pizza cheese less absorbed.