What happened next with the pizza not so pie?

Three slices of regular meat lovers pizza contains the same kilojoules as a 12 oz steak (340g).

But what about a pizza with a strange looking ‘pie’ in the crust.

You’ll remember that my journey to find out what is in the pie-stuffed-crust pizza led me to acquire a bag revealing these ‘pies’ contain so little meat they can’t be called pies. But I was still no closer to finding out what was in the pizza. By this point I was less concerned with how many kilojoules are in the pizza and had a mounting worry about why Pizza Hut didn’t want me to know.

So after a morning run last weekend I took a small detour and went to pizza hut for the second time in a week. I gave the same spiel that I was looking for a list of ingredients and nutrition panel for the new pie-pizza advertised in their window.

The store manager had a copy! Wowee! and he went to get it for me.

Unfortunately after some time looking he was also unable to locate the nutrition sheet, but he kindly offered to email it to me when he did find it.

3 days later I received an email, but, the wrong scan was attached and I received a copy of the franchise agreement. A day later I received the right scan. No nutrition information to be seen though. It was a list of the allergens in the pizza. Very unhelpful. This was getting very frustrating as according to food regulations food companies must provide nutrition and ingredient information to customers upon request.

The scan did contain an email address for customer service. I emailed about 1 minute later. At last I was going to get a response to my question “what is in the new pie pizza”?

The “Pizza Hut Team” responded a day later with the breakdown of nutrition for their pizza-pie – but it was a sauce and cheese pizza. They also said they were going to put it on their website which is great news for everyone who wants to be informed before making a decision.

“Please note that the information provided is based on a standard sauce and cheese pizza only, the nutritional content will vary depending on which toppings you choose.”

This is the information I was after but as no one I know eats a cheese pizza I didn’t think this was very helpful. So I asked for the same information but for a “four n twenty meat lovers pizza”.

It has now arrived in my inbox!

They have sent kilojoule information per slice and per 100g. This is a great improvement, considering as until now we had nothing.

They really should have provided the sodium, total fat and saturated fat according to my request and as required by Australian food labelling law, (don’t worry I let them know) but I guess we will have to settle for kilojoules.

So the verdict…

At about 1100kJ per slice, eating one pizza would take me about 10 hours 40 minutes of brisk walking to burn off and is the same number of kilojoules as two whole barbecue chickens!!

So don’t be shy to ask. If you want to know what’s in your food ask the waiter, chef, franchisee or email feedback. The more of us that do this the more likely companies are going to feel the need to give it to us.

Below is the kilojoule information for your perusal. Watch out for that loaded pepperoni at 1266kJ per slice I’ll be taking the 5oz steak instead.