The crust is the lever, not the pizza

I looked up fourteen pizzas.

Not to rank them. To find out how much room there is inside the word pizza, because the advice I was given treated it as one thing you either eat or do not.

That is the whole spread, and both ends are pizza. The thin crust buried under toppings scores lower than the plain one, because the cheese and the meat slow down the base they are sitting on.

Eight grams a slice does not sound like much until you have three of them. Then it is the difference between one slice and none.

The calzone is the same dough folded over and sealed, so you get more of everything per bite. It carries slightly fewer carbohydrates than pizza gram for gram, and considerably more fat. Lighter is not the word for it.

Label and database figures, not medical advice. Chains and recipes vary, so the box in front of you is the one that counts.