Tom Brady is seen on the field prior to a game between the Seattle Seahawks and the Buffalo Bills at Lumen Field on October 27, 2024 in Seattle, Washington.
Tom Brady in 2024.
Tom Brady shared a photo of a pizza during his family vacation in Amsterdam
The retired NFL player once following a diet that restricted tomatoes and white flour
He later shared that he'd become more relaxed about his food choices
Tom Brady is enjoying the local cuisine during his trip to Amsterdam.
The retired NFL player, 47, shared a snap of a pizza pie featuring mozzarella, prosciutto and tomato sauce on Tuesday, June 3, tagging the restaurant Pizza Beppe Quattro.
“Sooooooo delicious,” he wrote, along with the flag of the Netherlands.
“American by birth… Dutch by appetite,” he added.
Tom Brady shared a photo of a pizza on Instagram Stories.
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Brady’s Instagram Stories documenting the European vacation included appearances from his son Benjamin, 15, and daughter Vivian, 12, both of whom he shares with ex-wife Gisele Bündchen. He’s also dad to 17-year-old son Jack, whom he shares with ex Bridget Moynahan.
The decadent meal was a departure for the former New England Patriots quarterback, who was previously known to follow an incredibly strict diet — which excluded tomatoes.
In a 2016 interview with Boston.com, Brady and Bündchen’s personal chef Allen Campbell said the couple’s diet was 80 percent vegetables and whole grains, and 20 percent lean meats and fish.
“No white sugar. No white flour. No MSG. I’ll use raw olive oil, but I never cook with olive oil,” Campbell revealed. “I only cook with coconut oil. Fats like canola oil turn into trans fats … I use Himalayan pink salt as the sodium. I never use iodized salt.”
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A selfie Tom Brady shared on Instagram Stories.
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The personal chef added, “[Tom] doesn’t eat nightshades, because they’re not anti-inflammatory, so no tomatoes, peppers, mushrooms, or eggplants. Tomatoes trickle in every now and then, but just maybe once a month.”
Brady also made headlines when he ate his first-ever strawberry during a 2018 segment on The Late Show, having famously told New York Magazine in 2016, he’d never tried the fruit and had “no desire to do that.”
Brady later shared that he’d become more relaxed about his diet — particularly when it came to pizza.
“If I’m craving bacon, I have a piece,” he told Men’s Health in 2019. “Same with pizza. You should never restrict what you really want. We’re humans, here for one life,” he said. “What’s changed as I’ve gotten older is now if I want pizza, I want the best pizza. I don’t eat a slice that tastes like s—, and then wonder, ‘Why am I eating s— pizza?’ ”