The Best Sprouts Products We’ve Tried in Our Taste Tests

If you like natural foods but worry Whole Foods will break the bank, Sprouts is a good place to shop. You’ll find lots of the good vegetarian and organic items you’d see at pricier stores, along with a section of bulk nuts, grains, and dried fruits. But one of the best things about shopping at Sprouts? Sprouts products, as in Sprouts’ own name brand products. From vegan salad dressing to sourdough, they make good stuff! But all Sprouts Market products are not created equal. Here are the best Sprouts Market products we’ve tried in our taste tests. (Oh, and in case you were wondering, Sprouts currently operates more than 400 stores in 23 states, but they’re in the process of expanding. If there isn’t a Sprouts near you, hey, maybe there will be soon. And you’ll know just what to buy at Sprouts when the time comes.)

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Best Sprouts Chicken Salad

Sprouts Chicken Salad

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If you hit up Sprouts, don’t skip the deli section because they make damn good chicken salad (tuna salad, too, but we’ll get to that in sec). It’s loaded with white meat chicken and crisp veggies, including carrots, green onions, and celery. And you can actually taste all of the components because they’re not swimming in mayo. It’s not the creamiest chicken salad in the world, but that’s also what makes it one of the best Sprouts products—because not everyone wants mayo-heavy chicken salad. (The curry chicken salad is some of the best food at Sprouts, too, but this version ranked higher.)

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Rating:

9.5/10

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Best Sprouts Tuna Salad

Sprouts Herb Tuna Salad

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Much like their chicken salad, Sprouts Herb Tuna Salad goes easy on the mayo, but that just means you can actually taste the tuna. And it’s good. The fish tastes fresh, there’s a good amount of dill in the mix, and diced scallions give it crunch and flavor. This is one of the best Sprouts products if you need a grab-and-go lunch. Just grab a spoon and some crackers, and voila.

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Rating:

8.5/10

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Best Sprouts Sourdough

Sprouts San Francisco Style Sourdough

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Sprouts Sourdough is delightfully fresh tasting. The loaf has a nice crisp crust and soft, doughy innards. It’s fine at room temp, but it’s extra delicious heated up in the oven. 

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Rating:

8.5/10

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Best Mini Cupcakes

Sprouts Two Bite Chocolate Cupcakes

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When it comes to regular-sized chocolate cupcakes, Publix is king. But, mini chocolate cupcakes? Sprouts sells the best. These two-bite cupcakes are moist and fudgy, but they aren’t sickly sweet. The frosting is airy and light. They’re perfect when a whole cupcake just sounds like too much (even though you’ll probably end up eating enough mini cupcakes to equal a whole cupcake).

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Rating:

8.5/10

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Best String Cheese

Sprouts String Cheese

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The best Sprouts products are the things you’ll buy on every trip, like this string cheese. It’s equal parts waxy and pliable, and it pulls apart like a dream. The best part? The flavor. The mozzarella is part skim, but it tastes full fat. We’ve tried a lot of string cheese in our taste tests, but Sprouts always comes out on top. 

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Rating:

10/10

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Best Sprouts Creamed Spinach

Sprouts Market Corner Creamed Kale & Spinach

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We found this creamed spinach when we were looking for what to buy at Sprouts for Thanksgiving, but really, it’s good for making any old meal feel pretty special. Don’t let the kale turn you off—it’s hearty and flavorful and adds bite. Parm makes it salty and nutty, and the garlic keeps you coming back for bite after bite. This is steak house-quality creamed spinach. 

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Rating:

9/10

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Best Sprouts Sour Cream

Sprouts Original Sour Cream

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Some sour cream is watery. Some sour cream tastes like almost nothing. But Sprouts sour cream is salty and tangy and irresistible. If you like crunchy, gringo-style tacos, this is the sour cream to buy. A few dollops are the perfect complement to heaps of seasoned ground beef drenched in taco sauce. 

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Rating:

9.5/10

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Best Vegan Sour Cream

Sprouts Plant Based Sour Cream Alternative

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Good news for vegans: Sprouts dairy sour cream is as good as Sprouts dairy sour cream. Really, this vegan sour cream alternative tastes more like regular sour cream than any other vegan sour cream we tasted. It’s thick and tangy and doesn’t have a weird layer of water on top. If you’re making an onion or spinach dip and want to make it safe for vegans and the lactose intolerant alike, this is one of the best Sprouts products to add to your cart.

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Rating:

9/10

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Best Vegan Ranch Dressing

Sprouts Plant Based Ranch

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A lot of vegan ranch dressing tastes like oil and dried herbs, but Sprouts makes a vegan ranch that pretty much any ranch lover could get behind. It’s creamy, herby, and has the right amount of twang. Our taste testers decided that if this didn’t say “plant based” on the label, we might not have known the difference. If you don’t do dairy but love salads, add dressing to your list of what to buy at Sprouts.

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Rating:

10/10

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Best Sprouts Vegan Caesar Dressing

Sprouts Plant-Based Caesar

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This isn’t the best vegan caesar dressing we tried in our taste test, but the #3 spot ain’t bad—especially considering how bad some plant based caesar dressing is. The secret to its success is tamari sauce, which contributes major umami. No anchovies, no problem. 

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Rating:

8/10

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