WHAT'S IN UNCRUSTABLES?
SMUCKER’S UNCRUSTABLES — FAR FROM HOMEMADE™
RAPID REVIEW
Information updated October 2024
The J.M. Smucker Company mass produces Uncrustables targeted at children.
The J.M. Smucker Company goal is $1 billion in annual net sales for Uncrustables by the end of their 2026 fiscal year
Uncrustables are frozen sandwiches designed to be thawed and eaten for a meal. The original version was a Peanut Butter & Grape Jelly sandwich, so we’ll look at that.
Shown below, this product has numerous ingredients Not In Kitchen™ >> ingredients we would never use at home to make a Peanut Butter & Jelly sandwich.
One Smucker’s Uncrustables contains four ingredients banned at Whole Foods >> Fully Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Fully Hydrogenated Rapeseed Oil, Potassium Sorbate and Calcium Peroxide.
(Sources: The J.M. Smucker Company Uncrustables Web site 10/24; Amazon Whole Foods Web site 10/24)
There is Added Sugar in the Bread, the Peanut Butter and the Grape Jelly.
In Smucker’s Concord Grape Jelly — the one in which comes in a jar — the first ingredient is Concord Grape Juice. For the Grape Jelly in these kid-targeted Uncrustables, the first ingredient is Sugar. (Source: The J.M. Smucker Company Smucker’s Web site 10/24)
Seen below, The J.M. Smucker Company states, “At Smucker, quality always comes first.”
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