Brand
Totino's
Made by
General Mills
Aisle
Frozen meals, pizza and nuggets
Kind
frozen pizza
Barcode
00042800114006

Totino's

Totino's Pepperoni Party Pizza

Small square crisp-crust frozen pizza with pepperoni, a freezer-aisle fixture for decades.

Label check

Flagged ingredients5

Fails 3 of 5 standards. Read from the ingredient list below; what each check counts.

What was flagged, and the words it was read from

IngredientCheckOn the label as
Titanium dioxideSynthetic dyesTITANIUM DIOXIDE
Vegetable oil (not named)Seed oilsVEGETABLE OIL
BHAPreservativesBHA
BHTPreservativesBHT
TBHQPreservativesTBHQ

Ingredients as listed

Enriched Flour (wheat flour, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), Water, Imitation Mozzarella Cheese (water, vegetable oil, modified food starch, potato starch, gelatin, rennet casein, modified whey. Contains less than 2% of: citric acid, potassium chloride, potassium sorbate [preservative], salt, sodium aluminum phosphate, sodium citrate, sodium phosphate, titanium dioxide [artificial color]), Tomato Puree (water, tomato paste), Pepperoni Seasoned Pork, Chicken, and Beef Pizza Topping (pork, mechanically separated chicken, water, soy protein concentrate, salt, contains 2% or less of: pepperoni [pork, mechanically separated chicken, beef, salt, contains 2% or less of: spices, dextrose, pork stock, lactic acid starter culture, oleoresin of paprika, flavoring, sodium ascorbate, sodium nitrite, BHA, BHT, citric acid], spices, dextrose, oleoresin of paprika, sodium ascorbate, garlic powder, natural flavors, maltodextrin, sodium nitrite, lactic acid starter culture, BHA, BHT, citric acid), Vegetable Oil, Rehydrated Mozzarella Cheese (water, part skim milk, salt, cultures, enzymes). Contains less than 2% of: Modified Food Starch, Yeast, Sugar, Salt, Defatted Soy Flour, Dextrose, Spice, Monocalcium Phosphate, Baking Soda, Citric Acid, Malic Acid, Xanthan Gum, Maltodextrin, Annatto Extract (color), L-Cysteine Hydrochloride (dough conditioner), TBHQ (preservative), Natural Flavor.

Source: the label filed with USDA’s branded food database (record 2739683). The maker’s page for it is here. Recipes change, and the pack you buy may print a newer list.

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More frozen pizza first, then the rest of the frozen meals, pizza and nuggets aisle. Each fails fewer than 3 of the checks; fewest flags first.