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Flatbread

A broad, technically vague term covering many genuinely different unleavened and leavened topped or plain breads worldwide (naan, lavash, pita, Flammekueche, and others), increasingly used in Western food marketing as a softer-sounding, perceived-as-lighter alternative label for what is functionally a thin-crust pizza — with no fixed technical definition distinguishing 'flatbread' from 'pizza' on menus that use both terms.

Common misuse

Marketing a thin-crust pizza as a 'flatbread' to imply it is a lighter or more premium product, despite no fixed technical distinction between the two on most menus.

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Evidence

Generally accepted
  • The Oxford Companion to FoodOxford University Press