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Trader Joe's Shopping Guide

Navigate Trader Joe's with confidence using our analysis of its 103 scored branded products.

15 min readReal Product DataProduct-Level Scores

Written by Ultra Processed Food List Editorial Team

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Trader Joe's Brand Analysis Overview

Our catalog holds 103 scored Trader Joe's products. We score products one at a time, and every score on this page belongs to one product. Follow a product link to see its ingredients and how its score was reached.

Trader Joe's Brand Family

Trader Joe's operates several themed sub-brands:

  • Trader Joe's: Main brand. Hundreds of products in our catalog.
  • Trader Giotto's: Italian-inspired. Fewer than a hundred products in our catalog.
  • Trader Jose's: Mexican-inspired. Fewer than a hundred products in our catalog.

Least-Processed Trader Joe's Products

Trader Joe's products with the lowest processing scores in our analysis, one per category:

Data pattern: Trader Joe's whole-food staples, such as oats, whole wheat pasta, lentils and brown rice, come out lowest on processing in our analysis, most of them because their labels list a single ingredient.

Highest-Processing Trader Joe's Products

The Trader Joe's products in our catalog with the highest Processing Scores, one per category:

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Key Takeaways for Trader Joe's Shopping

  • Whole-food staples score lowest: the least-processed Trader Joe's products in our analysis are pantry staples whose labels list one or two ingredients.
  • Read product by product: we score each Trader Joe's product on its own and publish no score for a brand or sub-brand, so the product scores above are the ones to read.

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