General Mills' Pillsbury Pet-Ritz pie crusts offer the convenience of a pre-made crust already rolled out and laid in a pan, ready to receive your favorite pie filling. They come in three varieties: deep dish, all vegetable deep dish and regular. The all vegetable crust differs from the other two in containing no lard.
Serving Size
A Pet-Ritz package contains two pie crusts. On each variety's packaging, the nutrition label defines a single serving as 1/8-crust, or the amount of crust in a single slice of a pie cut into eight pieces. If you use both crusts in a single pie, as for a pie calling for a crust topping, remember that each slice will actually contain two servings of crust.
One serving of a deep dish crust is larger than that of a regular-depth crust, so expect the deep dish crust to contain slightly more of any nutritional component per serving than the regular crust.
Standard nutrition labels base percent daily values per serving on a 2,000-calorie per day diet.
Calories
The deep dish varieties contain 90 calories per serving, 45 of which come from fat. The regular-sized pie crust has 80 calories per serving, 35 of them from fat.
Fat and Cholesterol
Both lard-recipe crusts's nutrition labels list cholesterol at less than 5 mg per serving. The all vegetable crust lists no cholesterol at all.
The regular size crust contains a total of 4 g fat per serving, 2.5 g from saturated fat. Both deep dish varieties have 5 g fat per serving. In the normal deep dish variety, 2 g of that is saturated fat. In the all vegetable deep dish, only 1 g of the fat is saturated, but 1.5 g is trans fat.
Both of the normal recipe crust varieties contain partially hydrogenated lard. Though their nutrition labels and the front-of-box labeling list trans fat at 0 g, the ingredients list says that lard "adds a trivial amount of trans fat."
Saturated and trans fats raise the level of LDL, or "bad", cholesterol in your blood. Be aware of the saturated and trans fat content in the food you eat, and try to minimize these fats in your diet. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration also advises reducing your cholesterol intake.
Sodium
The deep dish varieties contain 85 mg sodium per serving, or 4 percent of the recommended daily value. The regular variety has 70 mg per serving, or 3 percent daily value. This is less sodium than you might find in a homemade pie crust. For instance, a recipe at the "Simply Recipes" website calls for 1 tsp. salt and produces roughly the same amount of crust as comes in a Pillsbury Pet-Ritz deep dish package. Since 1 tsp. salt converts to 2,000 mg sodium, this homemade crust would contain 125 mg sodium per serving.
According to MayoClinic.com, foods containing 140 mg sodium or less per serving may bear the label "low sodium."
Carbohydrates
One serving of the regular-sized crust contains 9 g carbohydrate, 1 g sugar and no dietary fiber. The deep dish crusts contain 11 g carbohydrate, 1 g sugar and 0 g dietary fiber per serving.
Vitamins And Minerals
The deep dish crusts contain 4 percent daily value iron while the regular sized crusts contain 2 percent. The iron comes from enriched wheat flour, which also contains niacin, thiamin, riboflavin and folic acid.
Pet-Ritz pie crusts contain no significant calcium, vitamin A or vitamin C content.
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