Pizza Hut Hand-Tossed Pepperoni Pizza Versus Domino's Hand-Tossed Pepperoni Pizza

Mmmmmm... The warm, savory texture of cheese oozing through your teeth. The hot, spicy twang of pepperoni bursting flavor throughout your mouth. The chewy, fluffy crust seasoned with mouth-watering garlic... Nothing screams "party" like the greasy appearance of a hand-tossed pepperoni pizza. Along with the increasing popularity of the internet came the ability to order your favorite pizza online from the comfort of your home or office. But with the growing reputation of dieting in recent years, how do two popular American pizza restaurants stack-up against each other? Does Pizza Hut or Domino's make the so-called "healthiest" hand-tossed pepperoni pizza?

Pizza Hut
Founded in Wichita, Kansas, in 1958 by brothers Dan and Frank Carney, Pizza Hut is well-known for its unique variety of appetizing foods, from its eye-catching salad bar to its overflowing buffet of all-you-can-eat pizza. Over the years, Pizza Hut has claimed fame with several interesting varieties of pizza, including the Bigfoot, P'zone, and Chicago Dish pizzas. Whether served with buffalo wings, breadsticks, or garlic bread, Pizza Hut's hand-tossed pepperoni pizza serves as one of the traditional and most popular items on the restaurant's menu. With about 360 calories per slice, this pizza classic packs a punch with 16 grams of fat, 7 grams of saturated fat, and 1.5 grams of trans fatty acid per slice (about 1/8 of a pizza, or 4.9 ounces). If that doesn't mean much to you, these figures translate into 25% of the typical daily total fat allowance, and 35% of the typical daily saturated fat allowance. For those with high cholesterol, a single slice of pepperoni pizza comes with about 40mg of cholesterol, or about 13% of the daily content.