Doubt surrounding the binding-agent being used in the 'pizza-meat' mixture
There is some doubt surrounding which binding-agent Stabburet is using in the 'pizza-meat' mixture. (A mixture which is containing only forty percent meat, from cattle, according to Stabburet, and therefore needs to be 'glued together' with a binding-agent).

On one of the webpages on the Stabburet website, it's saying that the binding-agent being used is soy protein[4], while on another webpage on the Stabburet website, it's saying that the binding-agent being used is gelatin based on swine.[5]

Questions surrounding the binding-agent, were also brought up in an article in the online editon of the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet in 1997, where the factory-managers are claiming that they have recently been switching the binding-agent from soy protein to gelatin.[6]

Yet, it's saying on the Pizza Grandiosa boxes today, that the binding-agent being used is soy protein.[7][8][9]


[edit] Pizzas produced on the Grandiosa pizza-factory in Stranda, not being sold in Sweden and Denmark
It seems like there could be a small paradox, or maybe even a small mystery, surrounding the fact that many Grandiosa pizza-types, including the famous and hugely popular Grandiosa Original/Classic, all of which are being produced on the Stabburet Grandiosa-factory in Stranda in Norway, are being sold in very large quantities in Norway and Finland, while they are not being offered on the market at all in Sweden or Denmark.[10]

In Sweden and Denmark, only Grandiosa-types produced on the Orkla-owned Procordia pizza-factory in Dalarna in Sweden, and on the Big One pizza-factory in Stranda in Norway, are being offered.

In Stranda, there are in fact two pizza-factories. One Big One factory (The pizzas produced here are being sold as 'Big One' pizzas in Norway, and as 'Grandiosa Pan Pizza' in Sweden and Finland), and one Grandiosa factory (The pizzas produced here are being sold as 'Grandiosa' pizzas in Norway, and as 'Grandiosa Perhepizzat' in Finland).

The two pizza-factories, in the remote West-Norwegian municipality of Stranda, are being run completely separatly, and each of them have got their own separate pizza-bread bakery.[11]

These facts has led to questions being raised, about the contence of the pizzas produced at the Stabburet Grandiosa pizza-factory in Stranda, since these pizzas are not being sold at all in neither Sweden or Denmark, even if they are, by far, the most sold frozen pizza-types in Norway, and are also being sold in large quantities in Finland.[12]


[edit] References
^ Sverre Bjørstad Graff (2002-07-01). Grandiosa - den store testen! (Norwegian). Retrieved on 2006-10-14.
^ Joakim Thorkildsen (2006-03-14). 300 000 har lastet ned Grandiosa-låt (Norwegian). Retrieved on 2006-10-14.
^ Stabburet. Merker og Produkter - Grandiosa (Norwegian). Retrieved on 2006-10-14.
^ Stabburet. Storhusholdning: Produktkatalog - Grandiosa Pizza 10x585g (Norwegian). Retrieved on 2007-12-01.
^ Stabburet. Ernæring og helse - Næringstabeller - Grandiosa (Norwegian). Retrieved on 2007-12-01.
^ Dagbladet. Forretningshemmelighet til 25,90 (Norwegian). Retrieved on 2007-12-01.
^ Veggavisen. Kultur - Mat og drikke - Hvordan kjøtt er det i Pizza Grandiosa (In this message-board thread, one of the users has added a picture of the Pizza Grandiosa box, taken with a digital camera, showing that it's saying on the box, that the binding-agent being used is soy protein) (Norwegian). Retrieved on 2007-12-02.
^ Islam.no. Salam Diskusjonsforum - Pludring og prat - Topic: Bacon-snacks (The users of this muslim message-board, seems to think that the binding-agent being used is soy protein) (Norwegian). Retrieved on 2007-12-02.
^ Grandiosa. Perhepizzat - Grandiosa (Press the 'Grandiosa Classic 585g'-link, to see that it's saying on the Finnish Grandiosa-website, that the binding-agent being used is 'soijaproteiina', soy protein) (Finnish). Retrieved on 2007-12-01.
^ Grandiosa. Hitta din idealpizza (press 'Pizzor' on the webpage, to get to the menu showing pictures of the different Granidosa pizza-types being sold in Sweden) (Swedish). Retrieved on 2007-12-01.
^ Veiatlas.no - Din reiseplanlegger med presentasjon av norske hjørnestensbedrifter. Stabburet AS Stranda, Kyrkjegata (Norwegian). Retrieved on 2007-12-01.
^ Grandiosa. Perhepizzat - Grandiosa (Finnish). Retrieved on 2007-12-01.

[edit] External links
Grandiosa Norway
Grandiosa Finland
Grandiosa Sweden
GrandiosaLANDs homepage
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandiosa"
Categories: Norwegian cuisine | Orkla Group | Frozen pizza brands