The 8 most popular Trader Joe’s products for 2023

Move over, Oscar nominations, there’s a different award show making headlines this week.

For the 14th year in a row, the supermarket chain Trader Joe’s has released its Customer Choice Awards, highlighting products that loyal shoppers especially love.

The chain surveyed 18,000 customers on its website and Instagram account with the question “If you were to spend the rest of your life on a deserted island, what nine Trader Joe’s products would you take with you?”

The survey was open for the first few weeks of 2023, a spokesperson for CNBC Make It said, and then divided the results into categories such as snacks, appetizers, and household products.

The current hero at Trader Joe’s is the chili-lime-wrapped tortilla chips, which supermarket copywriters describe as “spicy, chewy little rolls made with ground corn masa.”

Many products were ineligible for the competition because they had won their categories multiple times in the past years. Inducted into the newly created Trader Joe’s Products Hall of Fame. They include mandarin orange chicken, dark chocolate peanut butter cups, pretzel bars filled with peanut butter, and unexpected cheddar and soy chorizo.

These are Trader Joe’s customers’ eight favorite products this year and how much they cost.

Runner-up:

• Elote Organic Corn Flakes Dippers
• Organic corn flakes dippers
• Puffed white cheddar corn puffs in the world
• Crunchy Curls

Runner-up:

• Syrah Marinated Toscano
• Baked lemon ricotta
• Blueberry and vanilla chevre
• Brie

Runner-up:

• Chicken tikka masala
• Kung Pao chicken
• Butternut Squash Mac and Cheese (seasonal)
• BBQ chicken teriyaki

Runner-up:

• Daily sunscreen for the face
• Ultra moisturizing hand cream
• Tea Tree Tingle Shampoo and Conditioner
• TShea Butter & Coconut Oil Hair Mask

Runner-up:

• A very small avocado
• Honey crisp apple
• Football
• Organic carrots in many colors

Runner-up:

• Danish Kringle (various)
• Sublime ice cream sandwiches
• Lava chocolate cake
• Brocky

Runner-up:

• Vegetable fried rice
• Bulgogi without meat
• Palak paneer
• Cauliflower gnocchi