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Boboli Pizza Crust, Italian Original
Bakery
📊 NOVA 4

Boboli Pizza Crust, Italian Original

Boboli
14 oz
Available at Foodtown
140
Calories
5g
Protein
1g
Sugars
290mg
Sodium
1g
Fiber
63
Ingredients

What You Should Know

Boboli Pizza Crust, Italian Original (14 oz) sits in the bakery/boxed breads aisle near other ready-made crusts, flatbreads, and refrigerated pizza dough — often shelved beside pizza sauces, shredded cheeses, and frozen toppings. Shoppers grab it during quick weekly runs for easy weeknight pizzas, weekend family dinners, or when planning game-day spreads and casual entertaining. The brand leans on a family-friendly, all-American pizza tradition: marketed to busy parents and time-pressed cooks who want the ritual of homemade pizza without making dough from scratch. Packaging and copy emphasize convenience and creativity — “Original” signals a classic base — and the label touts “no high fructose corn syrup,” while listing familiar-sounding ingredients like mozzarella and garlic; there are no organic or natural-certification seals. Visually it reads as a mainstream, value-conscious product rather than a specialty artisan item. Sensory impressions: a pre-baked, thin-to-medium crust with a crisp, slightly golden edge and a soft, chewy inner crumb once finished in a hot oven; the box typically contains a crust wrapped in plastic inside a cardboard sleeve for shelf stability. Use rituals include spreading sauce, layering cheese and toppings, and baking for 8–12 minutes, or using it as a base for sweet dessert pizzas. Processing context: it’s a commercially prepared, shelf-stable convenience food made from enriched wheat flour and finished with industrial additives like emulsifiers, preservatives, modified starch, leavening agents, and flavorings to ensure consistent texture, appearance, and storage life. Ideal for quick, sociable meals where time and simplicity matter.

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size: 0.125
Servings per Container: 8
Calories140
% Daily Value*
Total Fat2.5g3%
Saturated Fat1g5%
Sodium290mg13%
Total Carbohydrate26g9%
Dietary Fiber1g4%
Total Sugars1g
Protein5g
* The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a serving of food contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.

Ingredients

Wheat, Flour,, Water,, Vegetable, Oil, (Palm),, Salt,, Yeast,, Milk, Casein,, Sugar,, Mozzarella, Cheese, (Milk,, Cheese, Cultures,, Salt, and, Enzymes),, Preservatives, (Calcium, Propionate,, Sorbic, Acid),, Fumaric, Acid,, Food, Starch-Modified, (Potato),, Whey,, Leavening, (Sodium, Aluminum, Phosphate,, Sodium, Phosphate),, Mono-, and, Diglycerides,, Lactic, Acid,, Natural, Flavor,, Artificial, Color,, Enrichment, [Niacin,, Reduced, Iron,, Thiamin, Mononitrate, (Vitamin, B1),, Riboflavin, (Vitamin, B2),, Folic, Acid],, Wheat, Starch,, Garlic,, Soy, Lecithin..

Flagged Ingredients:

  • Vegetable Oil (Palm) - Seed oil high in omega-6 fatty acids
  • Soy Lecithin - Processed emulsifier
  • Calcium Propionate - Synthetic preservative
  • Sorbic Acid - Synthetic preservative
  • Artificial Color - Artificial coloring
No Seed OilNo EmulsifierNo PreservativeNo Additive

Dietary Labels

This product is not vegan, is not gluten-free, and is not organic.

Ultra-Processing Assessment

NOVA Score:4 / 4

Ultra-Processed

Why this score?

Contains refined/enriched flour plus multiple industrial ingredients (preservatives, emulsifiers, modified starch, artificial color/flavor, chemical leavening), consistent with an ultra-processed (NOVA 4) product.

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Common Questions about Boboli Pizza Crust, Italian Original

The Boboli Pizza Crust can be part of a balanced diet, especially if you're looking for a quick and easy pizza base. It has 140 calories per serving and provides some protein and calcium, but it's not high in fiber or packed with whole ingredients. Think of it as a convenient option rather than a health food.

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