A healthy pizza!

Italian scientists use Mediterranean vegetables to create a healthier version of the popular dish ( and you can eat it twice a week). Scientists and chefs in Italy say they have made a pizza which prevents cancer and heart disease.

The Pizza Pascalina, designed by scientists in Naples, has been called ' the pizza that extends life' and an “anti- tumour” pizza.

The Pascalina is packed with ingredients from the Mediterranean diet which are known to have health benefits.

Neither cheese nor meat feature on the dish; its toppings include tomatoes, olives and rapini - a type of broccoli.

It will be on sale at the Napoli Pizza Village, a pizza festival in Naples this week.

Scientists from the Istituto Nazionale Tumori in Milan — the national cancer institute - say the pizza is healthy enough to eat twice a week.

Pizza is usually considered to be an unhealthy treat, but scientists in Milan say the Pizza Pascalina — which contains no cheese — is healthy enough to be eaten twice a week

Researchers, restaurateurs, food producers and consumers came together to invent the pizza, according to Italian news site Affar Italiani. They hope to encourage people to eat well — and show that even pizza can be healthy the site reports.

The pizza has a wheat base and is topped with cherry tomatoes, rapini, olives and extra virgin olive oil.