Trader Joe’s Clean Label List

Below is the Trader Joe’s list of “unacceptable ingredients”, ingredients that Trader Joe’s does NOT consider clean label.

Click an ingredient name to learn more:

A

Artificial Colors
Artificial Flavors

B

Benzoates In Food
Benzoic Acid
BHA (Butylated Hydroxyanisole)

BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene)

C

calcium disodium EDTA
calcium propionate
calcium sorbate
cysteine (l-cysteine)

D

Disodium calcium EDTA
disodium dihydrogen EDTA

E

EDTA
Erythorbic Acid
ethylene oxide
ethoxyquin

F

FD & C colors

G

Genetically Modified Foods
Green 3

M

methyl silicon
methylparaben

n

Nitrates/nitrites
Natamycin

o

P

Partially hydrogenated oil
Potassium Benzoate
Potassium bisulfate
Potassium sorbate
Propionates
Propyl gallate
Propylparaben
Parabens
Potassium metabisulfite
Potassium hydroxide
Potassium nitrate or nitrite

s

Sodium benzoate
Sodium diacetate
Sodium nitrate/nitrite
Sodium propionate
Sodium stearoyl-2-lactylate
Sorbic acid
Sucroglycerides
Sulfites (sulfur dioxide)
Sodium Erythorbate
Sodium metabisulfite
Sodium sulfite
Stannous Chloride

T

TBHQ (Tertiary Butylhydroquinone)
Tetra Sodium EDTA