Posted on 01/09/2018 5:18:40 PM PST by nickcarraway
Consumer Reports rates 26 veggie, cheese pizzas for taste, nutrition
Your family might have a favorite frozen pizza that you eat as-is or even add some toppings to, but maybe there’s a pizza in the store that’s even healthier and tastier than your go-to. Consumer Reports food experts evaluated 26 different frozen vegetable and cheese pies for taste, nutrition and price.
"We consider the nutrition profile and also evaluate for taste. Ideally, a store-bought frozen pizza should taste like it was just put together with fresh ingredients. And it’s a high bar, but Consumer Reports found some pies that came close," said Amy Keating, with Consumer Reports.
More Headlines Pizza Hut is working on self-driving delivery trucks Dunkin' Donuts says goodbye to artificial dyes in its doughnuts Whataburger rings in New Year with new burger Vegetable pizzas are your best bet nutritionally, and they have some of the highest marks for taste. California Pizza Kitchen Spinach and Artichoke Crispy Thin Crust Pizza has chunky artichokes in a white cream sauce. It packs a garlicky punch and has less fat and sodium than most of the pizzas tested. Trader Joe’s Organic Roasted Vegetable Pizza has a variety of chunky veggies, such as peppers, zucchini and eggplant, and it has five grams of fiber per serving. And Dr. Oetker Virtuoso Thin and Crispy Crust Pizza Vegetable Medley has fresh-tasting cherry tomatoes, peppers and red onion. Pepperoncini peppers add a little tang.
The top-ranked cheese pizzas earned good marks overall. American Flatbread Tomato Sauce and Three Cheese Pizza has an interesting blend of flavorful cheese on a thin, whole grain style crust. Amy’s Cheese Pizza is a combination of tender, yeasty crust topped with mozzarella and a fresh tasting tomato sauce.
The American Flatbread costs about $4 a slice and Amy's Cheese Pizza is about $2.67 a slice.
DiGiorno Original also rates good and costs $1.17 a slice.
Looks like you’re really jonesing for a pizza, based on your posts!
They’re all terrible. Every last one of them.
DiGiorno “Brick Oven” Pepperoni.
(But it’s even better if you add a little extra cheese)
The quality of ANY frozen pizza can be improved by baking it on a quality ceramic pizza stone.
Vegetable pizza?! That’s the beginning of the problem and all of them are bad. This is better restated as a list of pizzas to avoid! Yuck!
Make your own pizza. Far better than the frozen cardboard stuff
Amy’s margherita pizza. But it has to go on a pizza stone to get the crust crisp and you need to put bacon bits on it. 450 for 10 minutes.
If you take a piece of cardboard and pour sauce and cheese on it it will taste better then any frozen pizza....
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There are no good veggie pizzas- ever
I was about to ask if you'd tried "every last one of them". Then I asked myself, "Artemis, do you really have nothing better to do with your time than pick a fight with Mr. Mojo over frozen pizza?"
Well, I have nothing to do. I'm bored. So, HAVE you tried every last one of them??? (three question marks for emphasis)
There was a time in my life when I lived on Jeno’s and Totino’s.
$.99!
Frozen Pizza sucks. Hunger is a better alternative.
Uno deep dish
Ellio’s. Only near the mid Atlantic region though.
Ellio’s. Only near the mid Atlantic region though.
“There are no good veggie pizzas- ever”
Take a bunch of sliced mushrooms and saute them to death in bacon grease with garlic salt. Then put em on a pizza.
Yeah...
Buddy.
Digiorno. They are all kind of “men”, but as they say pizza is like sex, even when it’s bad it’s still kind of good.
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Red Baron
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