Comments on: Tofutti Pizza

By: ryan

ryan — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:32:32 +0000

Please tell me you’re kidding, Jenn…

Man milk? C’mon now.

By: Jenn

Jenn — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 12:18:54 +0000

UUUUGGGGHHHHH!!!!! EEEEWWWWWWW!!!! I just read on your site that Tofutti is using “man milk” in their cheese!!!! Worse yet, a lot of vegan organizations are endorsing it!!! Either I’m gullible and you’re playing a sick joke on us or it’s true! Sorry boys and girls, it isn’t vegan in my book. If I don’t drink milk from a cow, why the hell would I ingest it from a human? A lot of leaders in the movement say that striving for perfection and purity in veganism is futile but you know, I’m a micromanager at heart. I intend to boycott all Tofutti products because of this. This is almost as bad as lab grown meat—-which, by the way, ISN’T VEGAN EITHER!!!!!!

By: Jenn

Jenn — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:50:18 +0000

The pizza reminds me of the little frozen Mr. P’s pizzas or the Mama Celeste ones that you can buy in most grocery stores. It really bothers me that that continue to put out items with hydrogenated fats and I was happy when they came out with cream cheese that doesn’t have them. I have been vegan for a year and four months. Part of that process for me was cutting down on processed foods and meat analogs, but this is a good, fast snack once in a while. I hesitate to call it lunch or even dinner. The first time I tried it I got a little weirded out by how real it tasted.

By: Fabiola

Fabiola — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 00:48:23 +0000

I was wondering if anyone knew about some good quality canadian products available, because my supermarket has almost nothing!

Also, since I am new at this, can anyone give me some tips?

By: Kim

Kim — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 06:15:36 +0000

WOW! I’ve been VEGAN for many years now, and I’ve just learned something new about Tofutti just buy reading comments on here.

Thanks everyone!

p.s. It’s true, you learn something new everyday.

By: Chad

Chad — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:54:02 +0000

Yeah, Tofutti bugs me. They totally don’t cater to vegans, their stuff just “happens to be.” They use bone-char refined sugar (except in the non-hydrogenated stuffs), and they make that real salmon cream cheese.

By: Lisa Bell

Lisa Bell — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 15:20:05 +0000

I think the Tofutti company is targeting people who are allergic to milk and not vegans. Their product is very good and I agree with the question why are they putting out 2 products, one with hydrogenated oils and one with out. Get rid of the bad oils that contradict the product. Milk allergy sufferers will buy the more healthy version if that is the only choice while vegans and other true health conscience consumers will not buy products with hydrogenated oils. I have found that the healthier version is harder to find and recently was told that the company is out of stock. Let’s get together and ask the company to step up to the demand. Let’s ask the regular supermarkets to carry it. I have made the tradiational spinach dip with it and vegan mayo and the non vegans eat it up too!

By: Michael G. Richard

Michael G. Richard — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 05:29:18 +0000

Mike, I’ll have to try your crumble tofu + olive oil + salt + basil as a cheese substitute on pizza. I’m vegetarian right now, but anything that brings me closer to vegan is good.

By: Danielle

Danielle — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 03:03:54 +0000

I hate that so many Tofutti products have high fructose corn syrup, which I’ve been trying to avoid for a year-and-a-half or so now. I no longer drink conventional soda (last time I tried, it was just vile). But it means no more Tofutti Cuties ’cause they have HFCS. :(

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 21:29:47 +0000

Usually when I make pizza, I use crumbled tofu mixed with a little olive oil, salt, and basil as the “cheese substitute”. It’s very good. I’ve tried using Vegan Gourmet’s mozarella, too, and it makes a great pizza, but one which is significantly heavier and less guilt-free.

I prefer to buy from Vegan Gourmet, because they’re clearly targetting the vegan market, whereas Tofutti produces fake cream cheese with real salmon in it (as far as I can tell). Vegans don’t seem to be their focus. Plus they use a lot of hydrogenated fat, as others have pointed out.

By: Michael G. Richard

Michael G. Richard — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:25:07 +0000

Sounds like something I might want to try. Not sure where it is sold around here, though.

By: Dreena Burton

Dreena Burton — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 14:27:16 +0000

Why can’t Tofutti make more of their products without hydrogenated oils??! I didn’t buy their sour cream or cream cheese until they came out with the newer product that had “no hydrogenated oils” clearly marked on the label. Yet, I notice that the hydrogenated sour cream and cream cheese are still on the market. Why? Do people prefer the taste and buy it, or do they not know?

I get so annoyed when I see vegan products with hydrogenated oils, and I just can’t buy them. Even though I know a little won’t hurt our health much, especially when our diets are whole-foods based… but it irks me that companies put seemingly ‘healthy’ vegan products out there and then pump hydrogenated fats into them to prolong shelf-life, or whatever the reason.

I’ve never seen this pizza, but we don’t get the same range of products in Canada that you have in the US… another thing that bothers me… but I’ll stop here! :)

By: John

John — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 14:23:11 +0000

Please tell me you served it with canned corn and tater-tots!

By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 06:24:46 +0000

I must try this! It sounds like a good ’sometimes’ treat. I admire the Tofutti folks, too. They have tasteful, decent-to-fantastic vegan products and they have “the right idea,” if you know what I mean.