What's for dinner? Pizza, probably! Study reveals 1 in 8 Americans eat a slice on any given day

How many slices of pizza have YOU had this week?



If you're like most Americans chances are you've had at least one slice of the Italian specialty.



Pizza is America's favorite food according to a new study by the USDA, which found that on any given day, 1 in 8 Americans ate a slice.



Pizza's for kids: You can add pizza to the list of things old people just aren't that into

But pizza isn't equally loved among the U.S. population.



The study found that men consumed pizza more often than women, with the most startling difference in the adolescent group, ages 12-19.



For these group of elementary to high school graduates, 26 per cent of males ate pizza to an 18 per cent of women.



America's favorite food: The study found that on any given day, 1 in 8 Americans ate pizza - that's a whopping 13 per cent

Pizza is most certainly a young man's game.



Pizza consumption was highest in the 6-11 and 12-19 age range, and tapers out after that with just 6 and 5 per cent of men and women over 60 having pizza on any given day.



There's also a noticeable difference in how much particular races consume the dish, at least among adults.



On any given day 12 per cent of whites ate pizza, compared to just 8 per cent of non-Hispanic blacks and 9 per cent of Hispanics.



Children are known for their pickiness when it comes to food, but pizza is the exception.



By ethnicity: When it comes to kids, it doesn't matter what race they were - they all ate pizza just as much. Not so with adults though, with whites eating pizza more often than Hispanics and blacks

Breakfast, lunch and dinner: Kids were just as likely to have pizza for lunch as they were for dinner, with pizza being a mostly-dinner food group for adults

Kids of all races seem to consume pizza at the same rates (21 per cent for whites and 20 per cent for Hispanics and blacks).



Children were also more likely to eat pizza for lunch than adults, who mostly only had the food at dinner.



And while pizza gets a rap for being a junk food, there are plenty of nutrients in the cheese and tomato sauce.



After eating pizza, adults usually receive about 58 per cent of their daily intake of Lycopene, a nutrient found in tomatoes known to prevent some types of cancers.

