Smucker's Uncrustables Peanut Butter & Grape Jelly Sandwiches, 10 ct — DUMP
Munch or Dump rates Smucker's Uncrustables Peanut Butter & Grape Jelly Sandwiches, 10 ct by Smucker's Uncrustables DUMP — score 17/90.
A homemade PB&J is bread, peanut butter, and jam — maybe five ingredients. This frozen version rebuilds it with enriched flour, DATEM and mono- and diglyceride dough conditioners, fully hydrogenated oils, and sugar in all three layers. Convenient, yes, but it's an ultra-processed food dressed up as a lunchbox classic.
Why this verdict
- Contains fully hydrogenated vegetable oils (rapeseed and soybean) — a hard-processed fat that's an automatic DUMP.
- Added sugar appears in all three components (bread, peanut butter, and jelly) plus molasses, stacking sweeteners into roughly 10g per sandwich.
- The bread is built on enriched flour with DATEM and mono- and diglyceride dough conditioners — hallmarks of an industrial loaf.
- Open Food Facts rates it NOVA 4 (ultra-processed); the 'no artificial preservatives' positioning sits right next to potassium sorbate in the jelly.
- A real PB&J is three simple ingredients; this is a frozen, shelf-engineered rebuild with emulsifiers and hydrogenated oil.
Ingredients (10)
- Enriched unbleached flour (moderate) — Refined wheat flour stripped of bran and germ, then synthetically re-fortified.
- Sugar (moderate) — Added for sweetness, can contribute to calorie content.
- fully hydrogenated vegetable oils (rapeseed and soybean) (avoid) — A hard-processed fat; hydrogenated oil in any form is an automatic quality red flag in this product.
- datem (caution) — Industrial dough emulsifier used to engineer texture and rise.
- Distilled mono and diglycerides (caution) — Emulsifier and dough conditioner typical of ultra-processed commercial bread.
- Peanuts (safe) — Legume packed with protein and healthy fats.
- molasses (moderate) — A second sweetener for color and flavor. Minor, but it stacks on top of the sugar.
- Grape juice (moderate) — The jelly's fruit component, though sugar is listed ahead of it.
- Potassium Sorbate (moderate) — Preservative for shelf life.
- Pectin (safe) — Fruit-derived gelling agent.