Italians make pizza that helps prevent cancer and heart disease?

Scientists and chefs in Italy say they have made a pizza which prevents cancer and heart disease.

The Pizza Pascalina, designed by scientists in Naples, has been called 'the pizza that extends life' and an 'anti-tumor' pizza. The Pascalina is packed with ingredients from the Mediterranean diet which are known to have health benefits.

Neither cheese nor meat feature on the dish; its toppings include tomatoes, olives and rapini – a type of broccoli, as well as olives and extra virgin olive oil, garlic and chilli, the Daily Mail reports. The pizza has a wheat flour base.

It will be on sale at the Napoli Pizza Village, a pizza festival in Naples this week.

Scientists from the Istituto Nazionale Tumori in Naples – the national cancer institute – say the pizza is healthy enough to eat twice a week.

A group of researchers, restaurateurs, food producers and consumers came together to invent the pizza, according to Italian news site Affar Italiani.

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