Totino's

Jim Totino founded a take-out pizzeria in Minneapolis, 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]

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.

• List of frozen food brands

• Totinos history via General Mills
• General Mills Totino's and Jeno's page Archived 2010-06-19 at the Wayback Machine