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Doubt surrounding the binding-agent being used in the 'pizza-meat' mixture
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There is some doubt surrounding which binding-agent Stabburet is using in the 'pizza-meat' mixture. (A mixture which is containing forthy percent meat from cattle, according to Stabburet).

On one webpage, on the Stabburet website, it says that the binding-agent being used is soy-protein[4], while on another webpage, also on the Stabburet website, it says the the binding-agent being used is gelatine based on swine.[5]

So it could seem like the company itself is a bit uncertain regarding which binding-agent that is really being used in the mixture.

The problem with the binding-agent, was 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 just recently (then, in 1997), switched the binding-agent from soy-protein to gelatine.[6]

But if one look at the boxes for the Grandiosa Pizzas today, then it'll say the same as it is saying on the Stabburet webpage, refered to above, that is, that the binding-agent in the pizza is soy-protein.


[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-editions (including the famous and big-selling Grandiosa Orginal/Classic), all 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 sold in Sweden or Denmark at all. [7]

In Sweden and Denmark, only Grandiosa-editions 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 sold.

In Stranda, there are in fact two pizza-factories. One Big One pizza-factory (The pizzas produced on this factory are being sold as 'Big One' pizzas in Norway, and as 'Grandiosa Big One' in Sweden and Finland), and one Grandiosa pizza-factory (The pizzas being produced here are only sold in Norway and 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.[8]

These facts has led to that there have been questions raised, regarding the contence of the pizzas produced at the Stabburet Grandiosa pizza-factory in Stranda, since these pizzas are not being sold at all in neighter 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.[9]