According to Pizza.com, 94 percent of Americans eat pizza regularly, and 93 percent have actually eaten it in the past month. Many Americans that live off of the Low-FODMAP diet cannot eat pizza. Now they can! By using a gluten free crust, homemade tomato sauce, and cheese, we can create a FODMAP friendly pizza. The pizza we decided to make is a meat lover's pizza because Caitlin's mom insists that it makes the pizza ten times better. We decided to make pizza because it's a huge part of the American diet and like many other things, it is hard to quit cold-turkey. Caitlin's mom was ready to give up on life when she was told she had to live off the Low-FODMAP diet. Finding a recipe for something as simple as pizza can change someone's life. It already has.
Incorporating pizza in a Low-FODMAP diet can be difficult but with the correct ingredients you can still enjoy this meal. Dr. Lauren Van Dam, who is a nutritionist at the University of Michigan Health Center, lent us a hand and sent us a list of High-FODMAP foods. We used this list to avoid products with High-FODMAP amounts and replace it with healthy, Low-FODMAP alternatives. Grains can be a problem, so using a gluten free crust eliminates the problem of High-FODMAP amounts. Regular tomato sauce contains garlic and onions, both of which causes problems to users of the Low-FODMAP diet. We created our own homemade tomato sauce, which gets rid of these High-FODMAPs. We added chicken, hamburger, and some ham as our toppings to create a fun Meat Lover's Pizza. By adding these all together, we created the perfect pizza.
