This Frozen Pizza Brand Promises Plenty of Protein—and Flavour. We Tried It

Regardless of how you personally feel about it, we are living in an era of protein-maxxing. Every corner of social media, from health to food to fitness, seems to have advice on how to increase your intake on this nutrient responsible for tissue building and repair. Meanwhile prepared food products abound with promises of delivering larger amounts of it per serving. While we at Chatelaine firmly believe the best way to go about keeping track of your protein intake is to focus on a balanced diet that prioritizes whole foods, we also love a convenience meal from time to time—especially when it comes in the form of frozen pizza.

So when Dreamcrust, a North York, Ont.-based company that produces high-protein, high-fibre frozen pizzas that promise to deliver on nutrients and taste offered to send a few of their products to our test kitchen, we happily obliged. Launched by Eden and Don Hazan, Edmonton-raised brothers with a family history in the pizza business, these quick-bake, thin-crust pizzas deliver 17 g of protein and a whopping 22 g of fibre per slice. (For reference, Health Canada suggests adult women get about 25 g of fibre per day.)

We popped three of their original flavours—mozzarella, pepperoni, and mixed veggie—into the oven at 425F for 11 minutes each, and had a slice. Here's what we thought.

Mozzarella Dreamz

First up: a plain cheese pizza topped with mozzarella and oregano-seasoned tomato sauce. The protein-enriched crust, which is the same for all of their pizzas, was crisp and a little fluffy—and while it did taste decidedly different than a standard flour-only crust (this version has wheat gluten and flax seed meal thrown into the mix)—most editors didn't notice too much beyond a slight aftertaste. The mozzarella itself melted just fine over the whole pizza and had a bit of stretch.

Pepperoni Paradise

This cheese-and-pep combo was topped with dairy-based mozzarella and a vegetarian, tofu-based pepperoni seasoned with oregano. Every other component, from the crust to cheese to sauce, performed the same as the previous pizza; the pepperoni itself, however, was not a hit. "This feels a little spongey to me," noted one editor.

Veggie Valley

This got the most votes from editors among the bunch, in part because the addition of vegetables added a bit more texture to the pizza.

The overall consensus? Not bad! Though perhaps best enjoyed within minutes of pulling out of the oven: we did notice the cheese in this and other Dreamcrust pizzas congealed a little more quickly than other brands we've tried.