Wegmans Sushi Favorites, Family Pack (Cooked), 32 pieces — DUMP
Munch or Dump rates Wegmans Sushi Favorites, Family Pack (Cooked), 32 pieces by Wegmans DUMP — score 20/90.
'Made fresh daily' is doing a lot of work here. Fresh-rolled, yes — but the components arrive industrial: pollock surimi standing in for crab, mayo colored with paprika oleoresin, tempura built on mono- and diglycerides, and an oil blend containing fully hydrogenated soybean oil. Hydrogenated oil in your sushi is an automatic dump.
Why this verdict
- Contains fully hydrogenated soybean oil in the vegetable oil blend — hydrogenated oils are an automatic DUMP, no exceptions
- The 'California Roll' crab is 'fish protein' — pollock surimi minced with sugar and starch, not crab
- Well over 18 ingredients once components are unpacked: modified starches (corn, potato, tapioca), xanthan gum in three separate components, mono- and diglycerides
- Sugar is added five separate times — in the rice seasoning, the surimi, the tempura, the mayo, and the sriracha
- A 'Food You Feel Good About' banner sitting on a NOVA-4, ultra-processed formula
Ingredients (12)
- fully hydrogenated soybean oil (avoid) — Industrial hardened fat hiding inside the 'vegetable oil' blend. Hydrogenated oils have no business in sushi — this alone forces the DUMP.
- fish protein (pollock, sugar) (caution) — Surimi — fish paste rebuilt with sugar and starch to impersonate crab.
- modified starch (corn, potato, tapioca) (caution) — Three chemically modified starches used as industrial texturizers — a classic NOVA-4 marker.
- Mono- and diglycerides (caution) — Industrial emulsifier keeping the fat layers from separating.
- Xanthan Gum (moderate) — Stabilizer keeping the oil-water emulsion from splitting. Fine alone; part of the additive pile-up here.
- Glucose (caution) — Second added sugar, there to sharpen the hit.
- Sugar (moderate) — Commonly used sweetener but contributes empty calories.
- Soybean Oil (moderate) — Refined seed oil, listed twice — cheap fat carrying the dough and brownie chunks.
- paprika oleoresin (moderate) — Extracted colorant that keeps the mayo looking rich — natural-derived, but a colorant all the same.
- Shrimp (safe) — Actual shrimp — one of the few whole-food proteins in the tray.
- avocado (safe) — Real avocado, genuinely good fat.
- Seaweed (Nori) (safe) — Traditional and mineral-rich.