【一起听英语】健康的披萨

英国人平日点外卖喜欢点什么呢，他们更倾向于食材健康的披萨.....

Jennifer: Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English, I'm

Jennifer and with me today is Rob.

Rob: Hello Jennifer!

Jennifer: You look cheerful today.

Rob: Ah that’s because today is takeaway night! I always allow myself one night a

week where I don’t have to cook and I order food instead.

Jennifer: Very nice, if a bit lazy… What’s your favourite takeaway food, then?

Rob: I like a bit of everything really, Chinese food, Indian food, Thai… And

obviously good old fish and chips do the trick every time!

Jennifer: None of those are really very healthy though…

Rob: I don’t think that takeaway food is supposed to be healthy, is it? In my mind

it’s more of a treat.

Jennifer: Well today on 6 Minute English we’re taking a look at a takeaway food that

claims to be better for you, and it’s one of my favourites - pizza. So before we

start I’ve got a great pizza-related question for you, are you ready for it Rob?

Rob: Yes I am.

Jennifer: The world record for the largest pizza ever made was set in South Africa in

1990. How big was its diameter?

(a) 3 metres

(b) 37 metres

(c) 370 metres

Rob: Hmm, well three metres is too small, that’s a regular pizza for me, so I’ll go

for b) 37 metres.

Jennifer: Well we’ll see if you’re right at the end of the programme. Now back to our

story which is all about making pizza healthier. 

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Rob: Pizza is really the ultimate junk food, as it’s delicious but also quick and easy

to make.

Jennifer: It’s even quicker to order over the telephone! But many pizzas come with a

health warning, as the ingredients in it are quite bad for you.

Rob: Surveys have shown that seven out of ten people eat pizza regularly, but

most contain far too much fat, sugar and salt.

Jennifer: It’s not surprising – lots of pizzas are smothered¹ in layers of cheese, with a

thick dough² base.

Rob: But the more traditional, Italian-style pizzas have thinner bases and less

cheese, so they’re a bit healthier.

Jennifer: The majority of pizzas that we buy in the supermarkets are laden³ with fat –

that means they’re full of fat. But there is good news on the horizon for pizza

lovers in the UK…

Rob: That’s right, a nutritionist from Scotland has helped to produce a range of

pizzas which are nutritionally balanced. They contain the right number of

calories, plus all of the vitamins and minerals you need in one meal.

Jennifer: It’s actually a perfect pizza. It was designed by entrepreneur Donnie MacLean

and professor Mike Lean from Glasgow University. Listen to this clip of the

professor: why did they decide to design the pizza?

Professor Mike Lean:

Of the hundreds and thousands of pizzas on the market they vary enormously in what they

contain. Not one of them, up until now, has been properly balanced for all the nutrients⁴. But

some have the right amount of fat, some have the right amount of saturated⁵ fat; some have

actually the right amount of salt, very few. Nobody has thought about it, nobody has

designed a nutritionally balanced meal so I got together with Donnie to try to do this.

Rob: That was Professor Mike Lean, who says that until now, no pizzas have been

balanced in terms of nutrients.

Jennifer: So his challenge was to design a pizza that has everything you need to be

healthy, plus it needs to taste nice too!

Rob: It's all about choosing the right ingredients. The team looked at the traditional

ingredients in a standard pizza, then made some slight changes to the recipe

to make it healthier.

Jennifer: That included one special ingredient that you certainly would not expect to

see on a pizza menu. Listen to this report from the BBC’s Eleanor Bradford to

see if you can identify the secret ingredient…

BBC correspondent Eleanor Bradford:

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Professor Lean and entrepreneur Donnie MacLean began tweaking the recipe. Red pepper in

the tomato sauce adds more vitamin C. There‟s full fat mozzarella, just not too much of it.

And a secret ingredient – Hebridean seaweed – hidden in the base to provide iron, calcium⁶,

zinc⁷ and…

“…as way of reducing the salt level „cause the sodium⁸ content of seaweed is about 3.5%

compared to 40% in salt.”

Rob: Aha! So the secret ingredient is Hebridean seaweed – so seaweed taken from

the islands off the west coast of Scotland called the Hebrides.

Jennifer: The seaweed provides a lot of the minerals you need to keep you healthy, and

it has a lower sodium content than salt, so the pizza is less salty and

therefore better for you.

Rob: Hmm, it does seem to have most of the ingredients of a regular pizza:

mozzarella, tomato sauce, but I’d have to taste it to believe it.

Jennifer: A healthy pizza could be very popular – there’s a real gap in the market for

healthy versions of the foods we love, and the team are already trying to take

advantage of that by developing nutritionally balanced fish and chips!

Rob: Now you’re talking! This show’s making me really hungry.

Jennifer: Well you’ll have to wait just a little bit longer before you can run off for your

takeaway, as we’ve got to reveal the answer to the question. The world record

for the largest pizza ever made was set in South Africa in 1990. How big was

its diameter? Was it:

(a) 3 metres

(b) 37 metres

(c) 370 metres

Rob: And I said b) 37 metres.

Jennifer: And you were right! The world’s largest pizza was 37.4m long, and weighed a

massive 12 tonnes!

Rob: I think we can safely say that that probably wasn‟t nutritionally balanced.

Jennifer: Well certainly not if you ate all of it! Ok, we’ve come to the end of today’s

programme. Rob, will you remind us of some of the words that we’ve heard

today?

Rob: They were:

Takeaway

Junk food

Health warning

Smothered in

Nutritionally balanced

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Gap in the market

Jennifer: That's all we have time for today but do join us again for more 6 Minute

English and for more help with any aspects of your English language studies

go to our website BBCLearningEnglish.com. Bye for now – Rob, go and enjoy

your takeaway!

Rob: I will! Bye!

 

1 smothered   

（使）窒息， （使）透不过气( smother的过去式和过去分词 )； 覆盖； 忍住； 抑制

参考例句：

• He smothered the baby with a pillow. 他用枕头把婴儿闷死了。
• The fire is smothered by ashes. 火被灰闷熄了。

2 dough   

n.生面团；钱，现款

参考例句：

• She formed the dough into squares.她把生面团捏成四方块。
• The baker is kneading dough.那位面包师在揉面。

3 laden   

adj.装满了的；充满了的；负了重担的；苦恼的

参考例句：

• He is laden with heavy responsibility.他肩负重任。
• Dragging the fully laden boat across the sand dunes was no mean feat.将满载货物的船拖过沙丘是一件了不起的事。

4 nutrients   

n.（食品或化学品）营养物，营养品( nutrient的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• a lack of essential nutrients 基本营养的缺乏
• Nutrients are absorbed into the bloodstream. 营养素被吸收进血液。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 saturated   

a.饱和的，充满的

参考例句：

• The continuous rain had saturated the soil. 连绵不断的雨把土地淋了个透。
• a saturated solution of sodium chloride 氯化钠饱和溶液

6 calcium   

n.钙(化学符号Ca)

参考例句：

• We need calcium to make bones.我们需要钙来壮骨。
• Calcium is found most abundantly in milk.奶含钙最丰富。

7 zinc   

n.锌；vt.在...上镀锌

参考例句：

• Brass is formed by the fusion of copper and zinc.黄铜是通过铜和锌的熔合而成的。
• Zinc is used to protect other metals from corrosion.锌被用来保护其他金属不受腐蚀。

8 sodium   

n.（化）钠

参考例句：

• Out over the town the sodium lights were lit.在外面，全城的钠光灯都亮了。
• Common salt is a compound of sodium and chlorine.食盐是钠和氯的复合物。