Product Review: BOLD Organic’s Veggie Lover Pizza

Posted onAuthorCeltic Celiac

As I rummaged through the freezer at Eat Good Market, the newest gluten free store to the Huntington, NY area (which I’ll be posting about separately real soon), I was searching for some new products to try with chilly hands. BOLD Organic Pizzas were one of the first things that caught my eye, mostly because of their bold (get it!?) packaging with large lettering and simple black background with colored font. I settled on the Veggie Lover Pizza to take home as one of those new products. If you recall I’ve been sick, and oddly the only thing my body has wanted since then was heaping plate fulls of vegetables and fruits. So, the Veggie Lover Pizza was just calling my name and speaking directly to that secret place inside of my that decides my food cravings.

A pretty little pizza
This is one of those products I wish I had loved a bit more than I did.The biggest issue I had with the pizza was actually the cooking directions, which called for cooking the pie right on the rack of the oven. For those of us with allergies or severe intolerances who have shared kitchen spaces cooking on the rack may not be an option, and who knows how much cooking on tin foil or a cookie sheet would change the cooking time. I opted to cook on tinfoil, and it cooked a bit quicker than the suggested cooking time found on the box.

In and of itself, the pizza was good but nothing special. The crust was thicker than most other frozen gluten free pizzas, with a great texture that softened in the middle and had a true crunch to it on the outside crust. This made it perfect for folding, a pizza must! The vegan cheese is one of the better dairy free cheeses I’ve tried, but I still cannot get past the difference in taste and texture between vegan cheese and regular cheese. Call me a cheese elitist, but no vegan cheese has ever cut it for this lactose intolerant girl. That’s something I pay for whenever I do consume dairy… The taste and smell of the pizza was powerfully peppery. In addition, with all the veggies cut very small it was difficult to distinguish one bite from the next, leaving the final product a bit too consistent and amorphous in flavor for my tastes. Mike would go as far as calling the pizza bland, but I disagree. It has flavor, it was just too peppery and lacked that special something that made it stand apart from other pizzas.

However, it was not difficult to tell that the ingredients were of high quality, and frozen at the peak of freshness. It’s clear that BOLD puts a lot of care and consideration into make frozen pizza’s for the gluten and dairy allergic free communities, and that sort of dedication is what you want to see in a company. While this pie just wasn’t for me I look forward to giving some of their other flavors a try!

 

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