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Advocacy group slams BreadBowl Pastas

August 30, 2009

Jayne Hurley, senior nutritionist at the Center for Science in the Public Interest in Washington, said most people wouldn't consider eating an entire medium hand-tossed cheese pizza from Domino's in one sitting, but Domino's BreadBowl Pastas contains white flour penne, sauce, cheese and other toppings entombed in Frisbee-sized white-bread crusts.

 

"White-flour pasta with cream-cheese sauce can be a nutritional nightmare on its own," Hurley said in a statement. "The last thing it needs is an 800-calorie white-bread pizza-crust bowl."

 

The center's Nutrition Action Healthletter spotlights food porn in each issue alongside what it calls a right stuff recommendation.

 

"Topping a pizza crust with an order of macaroni and cheese is probably the most discouraging mac-and-cheese innovation since The Cheesecake Factory decided to ball it up and toss it in the deep-fryer," Hurley said. "What's next, wrapping it in a giant blueberry pancake?"