Ok -- so this is the first in a handful of product reviews that I'll post. Amy's Kitchen has supplied a few items with no strings attached. If I offer a poor review, they likely won't do it again. I agreed to this because I thought it might help readers looking for good pre-made products to grab in the store.The first item is called the "Single Serve Non-Dairy Rice Crust Cheeze Pizza."
The first bite of Amy's gluten-free, casein-free pizza surprised me because it lacked the cardboardy taste of soy cheese.
The folks at Amy's somehow found a fake, soy mozzarella that really passed my taste test. I forgot I was eating a GFCF pizza.
Pizza is a tough issue in GFCF land. First is replicating the crust, which is not easy using GF flours. Second is how to replace the cheese. The options aren't great. Some skip it altogether (I'm among those since I can't stand soy cheese). Others suffer through the bad taste of soy cheese.
Many GFCF folks also cannot handle soy, leaving them little option. For those people (my kids included), this product is not for you. There's definitely soy in here.
If you can handle the soy, this pizza offered a very nice experience.
I'm impressed with the cheese replacement and equally impressed with the simplicity of the rice flour crust and the taste of the crust. Many GF bread products smell GFy from store aisles away. This didn't. It was good.
This is a personal-sized pizza that would be great to split for a lunch or snack. It might not be enough for a dinner -- if you split it. I would hesitate to serve the entire pizza to my child because of the fat (28g) and carb content (46g).
My wife and I split this pizza for an evening snack and we both enjoyed it.
As for allergens, Amy's is great about listing ingredients on their products and offers a tremendous website that notes allergen issues. This item is listed as gluten-free, dairy and lactose free, vegan, corn-free and kosher.
Other highlights worth noting are that the product has no trans fat, no added MSG and no preservatives.
Other notes from the ingredient list:
- the flour used is rice and tapioca.
- tomato is used for the sauce.
- oils used are safflower, sunflower and olive.
- the crust contains yeast.
- potatoes are listed.
I would recommend this product. Very tasty.
1 comment:
hello :-)
Thank you for your very helpful site :-)
Could I please ask you, my son is on a casein, gluten, aspartamine, MSG, natural and artificial colouring, preservative and flavouring free diet. Are you able to tell me if this pizza is suitable for this diet? Usually we steer away from natural flavourings. Do you happen to know the source of the natural flavouring used here? Are there any other suitable amy's pizzas for the diet? Thanks so much.
Also, do you know of a suitable cheese substitute that can be used? Up to know we have steered clear of cheese. Thank you so much :-)
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