An ex-city trader renowned for creating a bread made from broccoli has added pizza to his collection of healthy carbs.
Paul Shackleton, a London-based City banker-turned-baker, runs Plan Bread - a sandwich delivery business that provides a virtually 'carb-free', low-calorie super-bread made from broccoli.
Shackleton, who, according to Mail Online, was made redundant from his job as a trader at JP Morgan two years ago, said it took hundreds of prototypes and samples before perfecting his latest creation, broccoli pizza.
Plan Bread’s special gluten-free recipe allegedly contains 50 per cent fewer calories and 90 per cent fewer carbs than the average 'healthy' pizzas on the market. They also count as one of your 5 A DAY.
Shackleton told Mail Online: 'We were really proud of the broccoli bread product that was launched last year, but were unsure of how many people would embrace the concept.
'Lots of people signed up immediately for our lunchtime sandwich delivery service, which has now grown to incorporate clients such as Virgin Active and the BBC. It showed us that there must be an unfulfilled desire for people to seek healthy options to what are, on the whole, not the healthiest products.
'The pizza was the next clear opponent. The trials have gone very promisingly and we are thrilled to launch the broccoli pizza product.'
The 28-year-old has no prior experience of oven-based work, butspent hours poring over books in the British Library, studying the latest medical research on how food is stored as fat, and meticulously devised more than 150 prototypes before arriving at Plan Bread's secret recipe.
'In the long term, we’d love to tackle as many flour-based products as possible, and give our healthy interpretation of them,' Shackleton added. 'We already have a broccoli flour scotch egg, but perhaps a range of pies or other savoury items.'
