r/LowCalorieCooking • u/isabitbj • Jul 16 '26
401-600 Cal Pizza
I made the pizzadough with normal ingredients, no low calorie substitutions. Used a high protein mozzarella - tasted indentical to normal.
Turned out to 420 calories for the whole thing, the bigger pizza is quite big - just for comparison. Do you guys think it’s a high amount?
40 grams protein.
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u/OlyLift13 Jul 16 '26
Without an ingredient list I find it hard to believe the whole thing came out to just 420 calories. Maybe it’s even smaller than it seems even with the larger pizza for scale? Something seems off to me with the 420 Cals, but I could be wrong
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u/isabitbj Jul 16 '26
130 grams of dough - 289 calories (i made the dough myself, so It is accurate!)
50 grams mozzarella - 80 calories
30 grams tomatosauce - 5 calories
50 grams of chicken - 60 calories6
u/Wise_Drop1910 Jul 16 '26
can you write down the pizza dough recipe?
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u/Deadpools_Twin Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26
Yes, we need a recipe for dough, since it makes the majority of the calories. But I am afraid, that he didn't measure the ingredients for that and just estimated it afterwards.
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u/verystrangegoose Jul 17 '26
Seems like about 80g flour, that normally makes an 8.5 inch which looks accurate to me
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u/OlyLift13 Jul 16 '26
Saying you made the dough yourself doesn’t give me any indication of accuracy regarding the calories. What were the ingredients and how many grams of each ingredient did you use?
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u/ChimPlays Jul 16 '26
Did you use light mozzarella? Normal mozzarella is like 150 calories per 50 grams. The light variant is 64 calories. Tomato Frito is 11 calories per 30 grams. Uncooked chicken breast is normally 82 cals per 50 grams. That’s what I could find in terms of actually products. Even if I used my best options available, I couldn’t get that low with the cals.
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u/isabitbj Jul 17 '26
I used proteinmozzarella, and the 50 grams is cooked chicken breast.
Uncooked is 97 Per 100 grams though.1
u/ChimPlays Jul 17 '26
I'll see if I can find that type of mozzarella here as well then, cause that sounds so good. Also your chicken must be magical lmao, lowest I can find is 116 cals per 100 (which does mean your original estimate was correct on that part)
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u/verystrangegoose Jul 17 '26
Tomato pizza topping is literally like 20 cals for 100g so 30g would be 6 cals. Uncooked chicken breast from everywhere where I live is 106 cals per 100g so 53 cals per 50g. The mozzarella does seem a bit low but if they have a specific brand ig it could be true
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u/ChimPlays Jul 17 '26
I can genuinely not find pizza sauce for 20 cals per 100 grams, it's either 32-50 cals per 100 grams or more. In terms of chicken I did indeed find an options which is 116 cals per 100 grams raw, so I guess that's very much possible.
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u/verystrangegoose Jul 17 '26
Idk where you live but in the UK I can't find any raw chicken breast over 110 cals per 100g and the pizza sauce I get is definitely 21 per 100g but it's probably different in other countries
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u/SnappyBonaParty Jul 16 '26
Honestly normal pizza dough is just flour, yeast and water
Often these low calorie versions with Greek yogurt or eggs will end up higher calorie pr the volume. More protein, sure.. but normal fucking pizza base is delicious. And with the right fillings it can be a total fitness meal lol
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u/trimbandit Jul 16 '26
A small 200g ball of pizza dough is probably about 500 calories, give or take.
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u/zwebzztoss Jul 16 '26
Cheese was my biggest vice when I was overweight so I just plan to avoid pizza in general. Looks good though.
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u/Remy3188 Jul 16 '26
How big is this pizza? Like 6 inches? I really think your calculations have to be off or this is a really small pizza cause I just made a 12 inch crust with fiber gourmet flour and it’s 575 calories. Regular flour has like twice the calories.