Veggie Flatbread Pizza - PCOS-Friendly Recipe

Veggie Flatbread Pizza
Prep: 15 min
Cook: 20 min
Servings: 1
Dinner

Nutrition per Serving

244 Calories
22.93g Protein
32.82g Carbs
6.7g Fat
Veggie pizza made with mushrooms, tomatoes, and spinach.

Ingredients

  • 3 oz crimini mushrooms, sliced
  • 2 tbsps condensed tomato soup
  • 1 tomato
  • 1/4 cup reduced fat mozzarella cheese, shredded
  • 1 flatbread
  • 5 leaves spinach

Instructions

  1. Spread soup over flatbread, top with half of the cheese.
  2. Arrange mushrooms/tomatoes/spinach and top with remaining cheese.
  3. Bake at 400 °F (205 °C) until crispy about 20 minutes. Enjoy.

How This Recipe Supports PCOS Management

Understanding the nutritional profile of what you eat is a powerful step in managing PCOS. Here is how the key ingredients in this Veggie Flatbread Pizza contribute to your health goals:

  • Spinach: Magnesium may help improve insulin sensitivity in women with PCOS
  • Tomato: Antioxidants help combat oxidative stress elevated in PCOS
  • Mushroom: Vitamin D deficiency is common in PCOS and supplementation may improve symptoms

PCOS Diet Principles in This Recipe

The PCOS diet focuses on three core principles: reducing inflammation, managing insulin resistance, and supporting hormonal balance. Every recipe in our collection is evaluated against these principles. This recipe excels in providing nutrient-dense vegetables that provide essential vitamins and minerals for metabolic health. As part of a balanced PCOS meal plan, we recommend pairing recipes like this with a variety of nutrient-dense foods throughout the week to ensure you are meeting all your micronutrient needs.

Meal Prep Tip: This Veggie Flatbread Pizza can be prepared ahead and stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 3 days. Meal prepping is one of the most effective strategies for sticking to a PCOS-friendly diet, as it removes the temptation to reach for processed convenience foods when time is short.

PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe

This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Crimini Mushrooms, Spinach.

Crimini mushrooms are a tasty way of loading up on vitamins B2. Vitamin B2 plays an integral role in normal thyroid function and metabolism, which is vital for those with PCOS, as those with the disorder also tend to have a thyroid that doesn’t produce sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) in sufficient quantities (Reference: http://www.thyroiduk.org.uk/tuk/treatment/vitamins.html). Getting sufficient Vitamin B2 allows androgen and testosterone to be better restrained, preventing them from causing...

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