Papa Murphy's Original Crust

Papa Murphy's Original Crust is rated moderate for histamine intolerance, not high. It is a plain yeasted dough, and the moderate level comes from the everyday combination of wheat flour, malted barley flour, soybean oil, and baker's yeast rather than from anything aged or cured.

Why papa murphy's original crust is rated moderate

Nothing in this crust goes through the processes that actually push a food into the high band. There is no aging, no curing, and no long fermentation of a protein-rich ingredient. What is there is a short list of moderate players: wheat flour and malted barley flour are milled grain flours that sit at a moderate level, soybean oil is moderate, and baker's yeast is moderate as well. Baker's yeast in a pizza dough is doing a quick rise, which is a different thing from a genuinely fermented food like sauerkraut or miso, but it still carries a moderate rating of its own. Four moderate ingredients in one dough is enough to keep this out of the low column, and not nearly enough to make it high. For most people managing histamine intolerance, the crust is the least interesting part of the pizza. What goes on top decides far more.

What changes your risk

• Wheat flour and malted barley flour set the base — these two milled flours are the backbone of the dough and the main reason it does not come out low. The malted barley in particular keeps it from being a plain-flour crust.
• Baker's yeast is a moderate note, not a fermented food — the rise here is short, and that is very different from a long-fermented food, but yeast still sits at a moderate level in its own right.
• Soybean oil adds to the total — it is a moderate ingredient in the dough rather than a topping you can see, so it travels with every slice.
• The crust is low in protein, so time is not the issue — flour, oil, sugar, salt, and water do not have much of the protein that histamine needs to form, so how long the dough sits is a general food-handling matter rather than a histamine one. This is the opposite of the situation with meat or cheese.
• Your toppings decide the rest of the meal — a moderate crust plus higher-rated toppings adds up fast, and the crust is the one part of the pizza you are stuck with, so the choices worth spending attention on are the ones you make on top of it.

Lower-histamine alternatives

There is no lower-rated crust to swap to here, so the useful move at Papa Murphy's is upward from the crust rather than sideways. The items we rate lower at this chain are Chicken, Onion Mix, and Zesty Herb Blend, and since this is a counter where you pick your own components, that is real leverage. A moderate crust topped with Chicken, Onion Mix, and Zesty Herb Blend is a meaningfully different pizza from a moderate crust carrying whatever else the board offers.

How to lower the risk

Treat the crust as a fixed moderate baseline and spend your decisions on the build. Chicken, Onion Mix, and Zesty Herb Blend are the three components we rate lower at Papa Murphy's, so a pizza built from those keeps the moderate crust as the highest-rated thing in the whole order. The crust recipe itself is fixed and nothing in it is published as optional, so there is no version of the Original Crust without the wheat flour, malted barley flour, soybean oil, or yeast. If wheat is one of your own triggers, that is worth knowing separately from the histamine rating, since this crust is a wheat and barley dough.

Common questions

Is pizza crust high in histamine?

Papa Murphy's Original Crust is rated moderate, not high. It is a plain yeasted dough with no aging, curing, or long fermentation, and the moderate level comes from wheat flour, malted barley flour, soybean oil, and yeast together.

Does the yeast in pizza dough cause histamine problems?

Baker's yeast sits at a moderate level, and it is one of the four ingredients behind this crust's rating. It is not the same as a long-fermented food, but it is not a neutral ingredient either.

Is Papa Murphy's Original Crust gluten free?

No. It is made with wheat flour and malted barley flour, so it contains gluten.

Can I make a Papa Murphy's pizza lower in histamine by choosing toppings?

You can improve the overall order. Chicken, Onion Mix, and Zesty Herb Blend are the components we rate lower at this chain, and building on those keeps the moderate crust as the highest-rated part of the pizza.