No food item in America draws the type of passionate response that a good slice of pizza pie does from sea to shining sea, with countless takes on the humble pie, ranging from upscale Neapolitan-style joints to New York, Detroit, Colorado and other, more comfort food centered varieties.
No matter the style, it seems like residents of the Show-Me State have their topping of choice down pat, with cheese pizzas being the resounding pizza topping choice for Missouri residents, based on search interest totals for topics related to the Italian staple.
Celebrated on February 9, National Pizza Day is the perfect way to celebrate Super Bowl Sunday. BetMissouri.com broke from Missouri sports betting updates and used Google Trends to rank the top five pizza toppings in the state of Missouri. We ranked the top five toppings based on search interest scores from a search conducted over the past year on January 23, 2025.
Top Five Pizza Toppings In Missouri
Rank | Toppings | Search Interest Score |
1 | Cheese | 61 |
2 | Pepperoni | 24 |
3 | Sausage | 9 |
4 | Veggie | 8 |
5 | Supreme | 3 |
Which Pizza Topping Do Missouri Residents Prefer?
Overall, cheese pizzas were far and away the top topping of choice for Missouri residents, with a search interest score of 61 points, ranking well ahead of the next closest option, which was pepperoni with a search interest score of 24 points during the period in question.
Other popular pizza toppings in Missouri during that period included sausage (nine search interest score), veggie (eight search interest score), and supreme (three search interest score), though none of them could come close to holding the type of statewide sway that the simplest of all toppings mustered in the Show-Me State.
That’s because the humble cheese pizza pie was the resounding topping du jour among Missourians, with the bare-bones options winning the hearts and minds of Show-Me State residents of all ages in 2025.
Author
Christopher Boan is a lead writer for BetMissouri.com, specializing in covering state issues. He has covered sports and sports betting in Arizona for more than seven years, including stops at ArizonaSports.com, the Tucson Weekly and the Green Valley News.
