The $2 Artificial Frozen Pizza

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It takes over 30 ingredients, excluding vitamin and minerals, to make “America’s Best Selling Frozen Pizza.”

Frozen Pizza Ingredients

$2 Frozen Pizza Ingredients

The ingredients include mozzarella cheese substitute made with rennet casein, sodium aluminum phosphate, artificial color and 14 other ingredients. Real mozzarella cheese is made from milk….

Frozen Pizza Ingredients

Frozen Pizza Ingredients

The package photo shows a “supreme” pizza loaded with meat and vegetables. There is more meat by weight than vegetables. According to the label onions and green peppers each weighs less than 2 percent of the total weight (about 0.2 oz, 6g) and is bundled with sugar, salt, modified corn starch, etc.

Deceptive Photo on Frozen Pizza Box

Deceptive Photo on Frozen Pizza Box

 

This is what it looks like right out of the box:

Precooked Frozen Pizza

Precooked Frozen Pizza

Pizza baked per package directions:

Baked Frozen Pizza

Baked Frozen Pizza

Remember the package photo?

Deceptive Photo on Frozen Pizza Box

Deceptive Photo on Frozen Pizza Box

The cheese barely melted. There is more mozzarella cheese product than meat and vegetables. The sauce was sugar sweet and the rest of the pizza had no true fresh pizza flavor. This is America’s best selling frozen pizza. An artificial product developed in a laboratory appealing to people who can’t afford better even thought there are better choices out there for about the same price per serving.

Speaking of serving size. This 8-inch pizza provides two servings. When this pizza is on sale for $1 that comes to 50 cents per serving.

You’re supposed to bake the pizza directly on your oven rack. Be prepared to clean up bits of burnt artificial cheese. What a time saving convenience food!