ICYMI: What's Not In Trader Joe's Products

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🗓️ 16 October 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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You can see what’s in a product just by looking at the ingredient listing on the package. What you might not know is that Trader Joe’s has a long list of ingredients we don’t use in our products. There are reasons we use certain things, and reasons we don’t use other things. What’s what, and more importantly, why? Tune in to the latest in our series of bite-sized episodes, ITJ ICYMI, to get the scoop.

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0:00.0	At Trader Joe's, we get a lot of questions and we really do love answering them.
0:04.5	So please keep them coming.
0:06.4	Okay, like everybody sees the ingredient panel on a package.
0:10.2	So that's what's in a Trader Joe's product.
0:13.1	But what ingredients are not in a Trader Joe's product?
0:16.1	Another great question for another ICYMI in case you missed it,
0:21.6	many episodes of Inside Trader Joe's.
0:30.8	ICYMI, what's not in a Trader Joe's product?
0:35.5	This is one of those topics where we could do a whole full-length episode on this
0:40.0	because there's a lot, but I think for the sake of ICYMI simplification,
0:46.4	we have a list of ingredients that we simply do not allow to be used in our private label products.
0:52.4	And those are ingredients that are used in food products by manufacturers all over the country
0:58.9	Yes, and so that's a really good point of clarification because we don't have things like spray paint
1:03.6	or model glue. Like you don't use those in food ever, you shouldn't.
1:08.3	So we're not being silly about that.
1:10.2	These are commonly used ingredients in commercial food and beverage production
1:16.5	that we have chosen often related to customer feedback to not use.
1:21.7	So for us, being deliberate about what we do is really important and deliberately avoiding certain
1:27.6	things. That's also important.
1:29.3	The list is really long and it's actually kind of shocking to see how long the list is
1:34.8	and it's not even an exhaustive list. It's really just guidance for us internally like,
1:38.9	hey, red flag. So we don't use synthetic colors in our private label products. We used to say we
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