Ingredients
What's in 4,993 pizzas across every role — dough, sauce, cheese, and toppings broken down. Shows how often each role appears, the gram range, and the most-common specific ingredients within it.
Reading note: percentages look low because many scraped recipes are assembled pizzas — “1 lb store-bought dough, sauce, cheese” — so the dough roles (flour, water, yeast) only appear in recipes that actually make dough. That gap is data, not noise: roughly half the internet's pizza recipes never touch flour.
| Role | Recipes | Avg grams | Range | Top ingredients |
|---|---|---|---|---|
flour 43% of recipes | 2,158 | 423g | 1–9005g | all-purpose flour483bread flour212flour180plain flour143whole wheat flour84unbleached all-purpose flour69 |
water 27% of recipes | 1,346 | 431g | 3–18428g | water604warm water434lukewarm water101cold water25ice water21hot water19 |
salt 36% of recipes | 1,792 | 10g | 1–452g | salt1215kosher salt302table salt232salt and pepper123sea salt104m salt93 |
yeast 25% of recipes | 1,265 | 17g | 0–412g | active dry yeast238instant yeast198yeast76dried yeast71instant or rapid-rise yeast53dry yeast43 |
oil 43% of recipes | 2,158 | 59g | 1–7938g | olive oil1676extra virgin olive oil438extra-virgin olive oil388m olive oil209vegetable oil139m extra virgin olive oil97 |
sugar 22% of recipes | 1,083 | 40g | 1–991g | sugar486honey203granulated sugar135white sugar124brown sugar62caster sugar26 |
sauce tomato 39% of recipes | 1,945 | 254g | 1–9072g | pizza sauce390tomato paste101tomato sauce89arlic cloves81crushed red pepper flakes79marinara sauce68 |
cheese mozzarella 37% of recipes | 1,870 | 174g | 2–907g | shredded mozzarella cheese477mozzarella cheese420shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese140fresh mozzarella cheese56mozzarella54fresh mozzarella48 |
cheese other 42% of recipes | 2,089 | 146g | 6–1814g | grated parmesan cheese296parmesan cheese274shredded cheddar cheese109ricotta cheese78shredded parmesan cheese70feta cheese63 |
topping meat 28% of recipes | 1,384 | 271g | 2–1928g | ground beef110pepperoni95sliced pepperoni62bulk italian sausage35lean ground beef32prosciutto30 |
topping vegetable 34% of recipes | 1,718 | 172g | 1–1540g | pepper209red pepper flakes132cornmeal125black pepper111ground black pepper92freshly ground black pepper66 |
topping allium 17% of recipes | 848 | 79g | 0–1814g | arlic cloves276garlic powder263arlic clove1482 cloves garlic84chopped onion691 clove garlic68 |
topping herb 28% of recipes | 1,399 | 12g | 0–702g | dried oregano410dried basil140oregano132fresh basil100fresh basil leaves95chopped fresh basil67 |
topping finisher 0% of recipes | 6 | 11g | 4–20g | calabrian chilli paste2calabrian chillies21 fresno or calabrian chili pepper11 to 2 tablespoons finely chopped jarred1jarred calabrian chiles11 or 2 chopped calabrian red chiles1 |