The Priduction Of Hawaiian Pizza - The Most Famous Pizza Known For Today
Understanding Hawaiian Pizza as a systems is a way that facilitates investigations and explanations of the link between the natural environment and human beings. Researchers and environmentalists tend to rely on using a systems approach in their research to trace back to the route source of where certain resources may have came from and the what humans have done to make the product what it's know for today. A set of ingredients in this pizza makes the Hawaiian Pizza the famous pizza that it is known for today. Any changes that occur in the system tend to create predictable outcomes or some consequences in another part in the system that completely changes the outcome of the chart.
There is two types of foods that regular human beings will consume on a regular basis. The food eaten by human beings consists of various components and categories. Firstly, whole foods are foods that have little to no additives and artificial substances. These foods require no processing to consume. Secondly, people also eat processed foods that undergo chemical transformation involving the addition of further ingredients to make them edible and give off a more natural flavour and look. It is clear that most of the foods that people order from restaurants are composites of various categories (Cheung, Lennie, Haruo, & Toshikazu 629).
Hawaiian pizza is an example of the composite food found in most pizza restaurants across the country. The Hawaiian pizza is a product of various ingredients. The complexity and the structure of the pizza reflects on the various interconnections between man and nature. Hawaiian pizza first emerged in Canada developed by an individual that believed that it is essential to add pineapples on pizza. The original Hawaiian pizza comprised of mozzarella cheese, ham, pineapple, and tomato sauce, the water, and yeast. Though some of these components underwent processing, the starting point of each was a farm. Noteworthy is that some of the ingredients of the infamous pineapple pizza consists of mozzarella cheese, sugar, yeast, corn/soya bean oil, pineapple and tomato are the basic most profound ingredients of this pizza (Hungry Howie's Pizza & Subs, Inc.).
The ingredients in the Hawaiian pizza is the reason for its enormous popularity. The following is a list of the prominent ingredients in the pizza: ham, pork cured with natural honey, salt, water, potassium lactate, sodium diacetate, sodium nitrite, sugar, sodium phosphate, and sodium erythorbate (Ponnam, Abhilash, & Balaji 629). In addition, the pineapple topping on the Hawaiian pizza consists of pineapple fruit and unsweetened pineapple juice. Additionally, the tomato sauce is a component of tomato puree made of water, sugar salt, tomato paste, dehydrated garlic, citric acid, spices, dehydrated onion, and parsley.
The crust of Hawaiian pizza comprises water, wheat, and yeast. Hawaiian pizza comprises of a range of ingredients obtained through various processes such as farming and this indicates that man relates to nature in different ways. It is evident, therefore, that almost all the ingredients of the Hawaiian pizza emerged from a natural processes apart from a few that underwent processing to make them edible. The source of cheese is a cheese-making plant, which comes from the condiment making plants.
The pineapples are from a fruit parlor while pineapple juice is from a pineapple processing plant. Tomato paste, dehydrated garlic, citric acid, spices, dehydrated onion, and parsley are from vegetable processing plants. Potassium lactate, sodium diacetate, sodium nitrite, sugar, sodium phosphate, and sodium erythorbate are from their processing factories (Hungry Howie's Pizza & Subs, Inc.). Honey is from bee hives, and salt is from a salt processing plant. Water is from a main water supply system in the city.
The connection between man and nature in the process of making Hawaiian pizza continue to emerge through various tasks that man must perform to end up with the finished product which is known as Hawaiian Pizza with the edible pizza. Human beings must cultivate land, transport the produce, subject them to chemical and mechanical processing, package the ingredients in different formats and materials, and test the quality of ingredients.
Concisely, along the entire chain of processes leading to the manufacture of Hawaiian pizza, humans interact with the environment in a range of ways and that is why the interconnection with nature is evident in several occasions with this pizza. The transportation of raw materials or the ingredients for making the components of Hawaiian pizza followed a particular route. Milk, for instance, came from a dairy farm, honey from a bee farm, tomatoes, spices, garlic, pineapple, onions, and parsley from a vegetable farms transported by road using vehicles (Pizzafacts.net).
Potassium lactate, sodium diacetate, sodium nitrite, sugar, sodium phosphate, and sodium erythorbate came from processing plants transported by road using vehicles (aircraft or ship for imported ingredients). Water is from a borehole or the main water supply system in the city transported through pipes or tankers. Farmers of grains require fertilizers, seeds, farm tools such as tractors, herbicides, laborers, fuel for machinery. Additional fuel and labor are necessary for transportation purposes. To deliver wheat flour to the bakery, fuel is necessary. This study provides a detailed explanation of all the steps involved in making a Hawaiian pizza reflecting on the points of the interconnectedness of the human and ecological systems.
Works Cited:
- Cheung, Lennie KY, Haruo Tomita, and Toshikazu Takemori. "A heating method for producing frozen pizza ingredients with increased total polyphenol content and 2, 2diphenyl‐1‐picrylhydrazyl radical scavenging activity." Food science & nutrition 6.3 (2018): 627-637.
- Hungry Howie's Pizza & Subs, Inc. "Pizza Product Ingredients". Hungry Howie's Pizza® & Subs, Inc, https://www.hungryhowies.com/ingredients. Accessed 16 Sept 2018. Pizzafacts.net. "Pizza Ingredients - The Basic Structure Of Pizza". Pizzafacts.Net, 2018, http://www.pizzafacts.net/pizza-making/pizza-ingredients/. Accessed 16 Sept 2018.
- Ponnam, Abhilash, and M. S. Balaji. "Investigating the effects of product innovation and ingredient branding strategies on brand equity of food products." British Food Journal 117.2 (2015): 523-537.
