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Totino's

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Totino's

Product type	Frozen pizza and pizza products
Owner	General Mills
Country	United States
Introduced	1951; 73 years ago (1951) (Totino's) 1968; 56 years ago (1968) (Jeno's)
Markets	Worldwide
Previous owners	Rose and Jim Totino (Totino's) Jeno's Inc. (Jeno's) Pillsbury Company
Website	www.totinos.com

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Totino's and Jeno's are brands of frozen pizza products owned by General Mills.

History[edit]

Jim Totino founded a take-out pizzeriainMinneapolis, 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]

Health and nutrition issues[edit]

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.

References[edit]

^ "Totino's Italian Kitchen in Mounds View to close after 60 years". twincities.com. 7 June 2011. Retrieved June 19, 2019.

^ "Rose Totino". Great American Leaders of the 20th Century. Harvard Business School. n.d. Retrieved October 31, 2012.

^ ^a ^b Slotnik, Daniel E. (November 25, 2011). "Jeno Paulucci, a Pioneer of Ready-Made Ethnic Foods, Dies at 93". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-11-01.

^ Johnston, Louis D.; Riley, Susan E. (May 19, 2021). "How (American) Chinese cuisine gave birth to the Minnesota-invented pizza roll". MinnPost. Retrieved March 1, 2024.

^ Dean, Lee Svitak (October 9, 2016). "Adventure of a lifetime". Star Tribune. pp. E7. Retrieved March 1, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.

^ Finkelstein, Matt (2007-11-02). "The Master Chef". Inc.com. Retrieved 2019-11-01.

^ "Totino's History". Totino's. Retrieved 2019-11-01.

^ "Ohio Firm Recalls Frozen Meat Pizzas Due to Possible E. Coli O157:H7 Contamination" (Press release). Food Safety and Inspection Service. November 1, 2007. Archived from the original on 2008-02-09. Retrieved October 31, 2012.

^ "Pizza Makers Whip Dairy Lobby, Duck 'Imitation Cheese'". Ocala Star-Banner. June 10, 1987. Retrieved October 31, 2012 – via Google News.

^ Rem, Kathryn (January 18, 2012). "Kathryn Rem: Investigating the contents of packaged foods – Trans Fats Have Not Gone Away". GateHouse News Service. Archived from the original on 20 Jan 2013. Retrieved 2019-11-01 – via Journal Star.

^ "Processed-Food Makers Criticized on Sodium". The New York Times. Associated Press. February 13, 1986. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-11-01.

^ "Shop Smart: Frozen pizzas can satisfy even adults". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Consumer Reports. January 30, 2011. Retrieved 2019-11-01.

^ Perrin, Gail (November 30, 1988). "Frozen Pizzas May Be High in Fat". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on January 21, 2013. Retrieved October 31, 2012.