Amnon's New York Select Cheese Pizza
Summary
Amnon's New York Select Cheese Pizza scores 61/100. The toppings are exceptionally clean for a frozen pizza — real cheese with kosher (microbial) rennet and no fillers, plus a tomato sauce made from vine-ripened tomatoes and fresh basil leaf with no added sugar or seed oils. The score is held back by a single major flag in the crust: potassium bromate. The bleached white flour and 860 mg of sodium per slice (36% DV) are additional drawbacks. Without the bromated flour this would easily score 75+; the toppings demonstrate what a genuinely simple frozen pizza looks like.
At a glance
Key ingredients 12
Potassium BromateVery Bad
Flour 'improver' present in the bleached wheat flour. Classified by IARC as Group 2B (possibly carcinogenic to humans) and listed on California Proposition 65 as a known carcinogen. BANNED in the European Union, United Kingdom, Canada, Brazil, China, India, Argentina, Peru, Nigeria, and Sri Lanka — but still legal in the US. The FDA has urged voluntary removal since 1991 but never banned it. Bromate residue can persist in the finished crust if baking is incomplete.
See more about Potassium Bromate →Bleached Wheat FlourBad
Refined white flour bleached with chlorine dioxide or benzoyl peroxide. Stripped of bran and germ; rapid glycemic spike. Synthetic vitamins are added back to mask the removal.
See more about Bleached Wheat Flour →Cheese (Pasteurized Milk, Cheese Cultures, Salt, Kosher Enzymes, Calcium Chloride)Good
Genuinely simple, real cheese — no fillers, no powdered cellulose, no modified food starch, no anti-caking agents. Kosher (animal-free / microbial) rennet. Rare quality for a frozen pizza.
See more about Cheese (Pasteurized Milk, Cheese Cultures, Salt, Kosher Enzymes, Calcium Chloride) →Tomato Sauce (Vine-Ripened Tomatoes, Fresh Basil Leaf, Salt, Naturally Derived Citric Acid)Good
Clean tomato sauce with real fresh basil leaf, vine-ripened tomatoes, and no added sugar, no soybean oil, no preservatives, no 'natural flavor.' One of the cleanest sauce profiles in any frozen pizza.
See more about Tomato Sauce (Vine-Ripened Tomatoes, Fresh Basil Leaf, Salt, Naturally Derived Citric Acid) →Ascorbic AcidGood
Vitamin C; used here as a dough conditioner. Mild antioxidant activity, no concerns at this dose.
See more about Ascorbic Acid →GarlicGood
Whole-food allium; contains allicin and other organosulfur compounds with documented cardiovascular and antimicrobial activity.
See more about Garlic →SpicesGood
Whole-food seasoning; contributes flavor without additives.
See more about Spices →Malted Barley FlourNeutral
Standard dough conditioner used in small amounts.
See more about Malted Barley Flour →Niacin / Reduced Iron / Thiamine Mononitrate / Riboflavin / Folic AcidNeutral
Synthetic enrichment to replace nutrients stripped during flour bleaching. 'Reduced iron' is elemental iron filings, poorly bioavailable.
See more about Niacin / Reduced Iron / Thiamine Mononitrate / Riboflavin / Folic Acid →WaterNeutral
Standard.
See more about Water →SaltNeutral
Standard salt — but total sodium is 860 mg per slice (36% Daily Value). High-sodium formulation.
See more about Salt →YeastNeutral
Standard leavening.
See more about Yeast →Processing
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