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American brand of frozen pizza From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Totino's and Jeno's are brands of frozen pizza products owned by General Mills.
Product type | Frozen pizza and pizza products |
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Owner | General Mills |
Country | United States |
Introduced | 1951 1968 (Jeno's) | (Totino's)
Markets | Worldwide |
Previous owners | Rose and Jim Totino (Totino's) Jeno's Inc. (Jeno's) Pillsbury Company |
Website | www |
Jim Totino founded a take-out pizzeria in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1951. It was expanded it to a full-service restaurant,[when?] which closed in 2011.[1] Totinos founded a frozen-pizza manufacturing company. The Totinos sold their frozen pizza business to the Pillsbury Company, where Rose Totino was named as vice-president.[2] Totino's brand was acquired by General Mills with its purchase of Pillsbury.
Separately, Jeno Paulucci developed a series of food businesses starting in the late 1940s, including the Chun King line of Chinese foods.[3] After selling Chun King in 1966, he founded Jeno's Inc. in 1968, where cook and product developer Beatrice Ojakangas developed Pizza Rolls,[4][5] a type of egg roll filled with pizza ingredients. The first pizza roll flavor was cheese.[3] In 1985, Paulucci sold his Jeno's Pizza Rolls brand to Pillsbury for $135 million.[6]
The Jeno's line of pizza rolls was rebranded as Totino's in 1993.[7]
On November 1, 2007, Totino's and Jeno's brand pizza were recalled for E. coli contamination.[8]
Totino's products contain cheese substitutes made with hydrogenated oil.[9] Totino's products have been criticized for their high amount of trans fat[10] and sodium.[11] In 2011, Consumer Reports rated Totino's as "only fair for nutrition" because of "high total fat and trans fat and low fiber."[12] [13] By at least October 2013, packaging on Totino's brand pizza now indicates 0 trans fat per serving.
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