Founded in late 2006 as one small store in New Orleans in an area that flooded during hurricane Katrina, N_K_D Pizza (originally named World’s Healthiest Pizza) was launched as an ambitious business model that seeks to change the nutritional profile of fast food.

By way of example, N_K_D Pizza is demonstrating that pizza does not have to be part of the problem in our global epidemic of obesity and chronic disease, but in fact can be part of the solution.
Ten grains in the crust:

N-K-D Pizza’s crust is made from an Ancestral Blend® of 10 grains plus prebiotic agave fiber and probiotics (healthful bacteria like the ones found in yogurt for balance and digestive health) bound by water and made by hand. The grains they use include oats, brown rice, buckwheat, quinoa, amaranth, teff, spelt, tapioca, and two kinds of wheat. This diversity of grains, fiber and probiotics are the main reason for that satisfying feeling after eating N_K_D Pizza, contributing a slow, sustained release of energy without the crash from eating other single grain, highly processed pizzas.

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