Totino's and Jeno's are brands of frozen pizza owned by General Mills.
Rose Totino created take-out and later in 1962, Totino's frozen pizza, eventually becoming a vice-president of Pillsbury Company.[1] Totino's was acquired by General Mills, with the purchase of Pillsbury. In the 1960s, Pillsbury bought the name Totino's from an Italian restaurant Totino's Kitchen based in Pillsbury's home town Minneapolis, Minnesota, that was founded in 1951 (the restaurant announced on August 4, 2007, that it is relocating from its original site near downtown Minneapolis and opened a new location in late March 2008 in Mounds View, a north Twin Cities suburb[2]). The recipe for the frozen pizza differs from the pizza served at the restaurant, though both are thin-crust. Totino's is also one of the most popular brands of pizza rolls, bite-size dumpling-like products filled with pizza toppings.
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Currently the Totino's and Jeno's brand are only manufactured in Wellston, Ohio. They produce 1.4 million pizzas a day and average about 240 million sold every year. In addition they are also the only manufacturer of the pizza rolls as well.
Totino's pizza has been criticized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its high amount of trans fat, each containing three to five grams, well over the two gram a day limit recommended by the FDA. In 2006, Totino's completed its phasing out of 100% real cheese in its pizzas. The Three Cheese Party Pizza was the last variety to contain 100% real cheese, and the trans fat doubled from 1.5 grams to 3 grams per serving when they changed the ingredients to include a combination of real and imitation cheeses. Most varieties of Totino's contain 8 grams of trans fat per pizza, an unusually high number for a frozen supermarket pizza.
On November 1, 2007, Totino's and Jeno's brand pizza were recalled for potential E. coli contamination.[3]
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