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Frozen Cauliflower Pizza Crust From Green Giant Is Officially Hitting Grocery Stores Soon

Photo credit: Green Giant
Photo credit: Green Giant

From Good Housekeeping

Calling all pizza lovers (a.k.a. everyone): Green Giant is about to solve all of your dinner problems this fall with its brand-new frozen cauliflower pizza crust, coming soon to a grocery store near you.

No one really needs an excuse to say "yes" to pizza for dinner. But pizza that's semi-homemade, lower-carb, and ready in mere minutes? We’re sold. In fact, we love it so much we're excited to announce that Green Giant’s new pizza crust (in addition to the brand's other recent veggie innovations like riced veggies, spiralized veggie “noodles,” and frozen veggie tots) has earned the Good Housekeeping Nutritionist Approved Emblem.

Photo credit: Green Giant
Photo credit: Green Giant

Green Giant, which will begin national distribution of its cauli-pizza soon, has done its due diligence to deliver a pizza crust that packs in the hearty, delicious flavor profile we know and love, but with the nutrient-density of a product that’s actually made from-gasp!-vegetables.

Nutrition Lab lowdown

Lately, there have been a lot of "cauliflower" products that have come under fire recently for being just that-cauliflower in quotation marks. Translation: Certain cauliflower items on the market, including pre-made pizza crusts, only have some cauliflower somewhere in the recipe, so the nutrient profile and ingredient panel reflect a mostly refined-carb, nearly vegetable-free product. But Green Giant's crust, which has been in development for more than a year, is more than 80% cauliflower and achieves an ideal balance when it comes to the carbs-to-fat ratio.

Photo credit: Green Giant
Photo credit: Green Giant

Here are a few other stats that helped Green Giant’s Cauliflower Pizza Crust earn the Nutritionist Approved Emblem:

  • The pizza crust is 50% lower in calories than pizza made with traditional flour.

  • Cauliflower is the first ingredient, followed by rice flour, corn starch, corn meal, corn flour, canola oil, and salt (the Tuscan version packs extra spices, like garlic, oregano, thyme and basil), which is what helps to balance the ratio of carbs to fat, without overloading on extra refined grains or cooking oil.

  • One serving of the crust (sans toppings) is 1/4 of the whole pie and clocks in at 80 calories, 1g total fat, 0g saturated fat, 180mg sodium, 16g total carbs, 2g fiber, 2g sugar, and 2g protein-a nutrient profile that's about equal to the nutritional profile of a small slice of 100% whole-grain bread.

Pro tip: Top GG’s pizza with a low-sodium pizza sauce (with no added sugar, please!), part-skim cheeses, even more veggies, and a lean protein of your choice (like chicken, seafood, or lean cuts of strip steak).

The bottom line: Clear some space in your freezer!

Cauliflower everything - especially pizza crust - is super-hot right now, but not all cauliflower based products are created equal (and neither are frozen pizzas for that matter, which can pack over 1,500 mg of sodium in just one half of a pie!). So check all nutrition labels carefully, no matter what sexy-sounding marketing claims are on the box.

That said, we’re welcoming Green Giant’s cauliflower pizza crust into our freezers with open doors. It’s a frozen-food game-changer: At $4.99 a pie, adding toppings and popping one of these in the oven is just another way to make it that much easier to eat healthy.


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