Staples like the Mandarin orange chicken and soy chorizo deserve their acclaim.
I probably wouldn't buy the sweet apple chicken sausage and the white-cheddar corn puffs again.
Every year I look forward to Trader Joe's Customer Choice Awards, which reveals shoppers' favorite products and helps me discover some must-try chain staples.
Items like Mandarin orange chicken have reigned supreme for years while others like plantain chips recently earned a title. So I hit up my local Trader Joe's and bought as many award-winning foods as I could to see which ones deserved their hype.
Read on to find out which of these 18 fan-favorite Trader Joe's items I'd buy again, and which I would skip.