Company: California Pizza Kitchen Inc., Los Angeles
Web site: www.cpk.com
Introduced: April
Distribution: National
Suggested Retail: $3.49 for a 5.9- to 6-oz. box
Product Snapshot: As part of its partnership with Northfield, Ill.-based Kraft Foods, Inc., CPK introduced a line of microwaveable, single-serving flatbread melt sandwiches. These restaurant-quality melts are available in such varieties as Carne Asada, Chicken & Bacon Club, Chicken Santa Fe and Five Cheese & Spinach.
Ingredients (Chicken & Bacon Club): Wheat flour, water, shredded reduced fat, reduced sodium, mozzarella cheese (pasteurized part skim milk, non-fat milk, modified food starch, cheese culture, salt, potassium chloride, natural flavors, annatto [color], Vitamin A palamitate, enzymes [ingredients not in regular mozzarella cheese]), grilled seasoned white meat chicken (white meat chicken, water, modified food starch, salt, dextrin, sodium phosphates, flavoring, yeast extract, fructose, carrageenan, chicken fat, cooked chicken), tomatoes, bacon (bacon pieces [cured with water, salt, sugar, sodium nitrite], applewood smoke flavor). Contains less than 2% of the following: palm oil, canola oil, mustard (water, distilled vinegar, mustard seed, salt, tumeric, paprika, spice, garlic), corn oil, cultured milk, cream cheese (pasteurized milk, cream cheese culture, salt, carob bean gum, xanthan gum), salt, wheat gluten, sugar, honey flavor, yeast, maltodextrin, modified cellulose, mono- and diglycerides, wheat protein isolate, sodium stearoyl lactylate, modified food starch, beta carotene (color). Contains: wheat, milk.