Pizza giant Domino's is packing more calories and fat into its takeaways than the company states in its nutritional advice, an investigation by a Channel 4 programme has found.
The research into high-street pizza chains, conducted for the Tricks of the Restaurant Trade show, tested medium-sized versions of the popular takeaway for fat and calorie content.
Domino's cheese and tomato pizza was found to contain up to 13 per cent more calories and 11 per cent more fat than the official information released by the company.
Channel 4 programme Tricks of the Restaurant Trade, which airs tonight at 8pm, found that Domino's pizzas contained more fat and calories than the company advertised
A cheese and tomato pizza was found to contain 150 more calories and 4grams more fat than the company's nutritional information suggested
The company told Femail that all their pizzas are made to order by hand...meaning there are 'naturally occurring differences in the average nutritional profile of each serving'
Presenter Kate Quilton sent a selection of pizzas from some of the UK's biggest chains including Pizza Express, Zizzi and Papa John's away for testing.
The resulting fat contents may surprise takeaway fans.
A medium-sized cheese and tomato pizza from Papa John's was found to contain nearly 58 grams of fat, with almost half of that saturated fat. A pulled pork Napoli pizza from Zizzi had 68 grams of fat, the same as six and a half bags of Walkers crisps.
However, it was Domino's that showed the biggest variation in calorie and fat content when the levels measured were compared to the figures that are made available by the company.
When it came to fat content, there was found to be 4 grams more in the pizza than the official information suggested, and it also contained around 150 more calories than stated.
And when the show compared Domino's offering to a wood-fired traditional pizza made by an independent restaurant in Bedford, while the calories were roughly the same, the fat content was around double in the Domino's version.
Inaccuracies were found with the company's nutritional content in other areas too. When it came to salt content, the pizzas tested had a gram less than advertised.
Laboratory tests revealed listeria innocua was present in a medium rare burger bought from a Byron restaurant. Although a mild strain of bacteria, experts say it suggests more deadly strains could be present
They found one of the medium rare burgers from restaurant chain Byron contained listeria innocua
Channel 4's Tricks of the Restaurant trade sent burgers from three upmarket burger restaurants for tests
Louise Butler, spokesperson at Domino’s, defended the company's nutritional advice. She told Femail: 'As all our pizzas are freshly made to order by hand, there can be naturally occurring differences in the average nutritional profile of each serving.
'The variations are within the limits allowed by law but we recognise that giving our customers accurate information to make informed choices is important.
'That’s why we’ve taken this opportunity to remind our team members of the need to ensure the amount of cheese and toppings per pizza, are as close as possible to our guideline amounts.'
Domino's aren't the only company to feel the heat of Channel 4's research.
In last week's episode of the show, it was burger chains who were put to the test with the programme exposing just how easily deadly bacteria can be served up at popular high street chains.
Minced beef bought from the upmarket burger restaurant Byron was found to contain listeria innocua.
Although a mild strain which does not cause disease, experts warned the presence of it only served to show that other potentially lethal strains of bacteria - such as E.Coli - could easily be found there.
Leading food poisoning expert Professor Hugh Pennington told Channel 4's Tricks of the Restaurant Trade they should be banned.
While rare steak has long been served, the trend for rare burgers is more recent.
But burgers are more of a health concern than steak because contamination on the outside of a cut of meat can be mixed into the middle of the patty where it gets less heat needed to kill the bacteria.
Speaking to MailOnline, Professor Pennington said the trend of dishing up rare burgers is a 'serious public health issue.'
And he warned that rare or undercooked meat can contain bacteria including salmonella, listeria, campylobacter and the most dangerous of all, E.Coli O157.
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