[Opinion] We Tasted 8 Canned Cranberry Sauces — and the Winner Took Down Ocean Spray

We Tasted 8 Canned Cranberry Sauces — and the Winner Took Down Ocean Spray

Whether you prefer whole berry or jellied, these are the best cranberry sauces you can buy. Food & Wine / Doan NguyenCranberry sauce is the unsung hero of your Thanksgiving plate. It cuts through the richness of the stuffing and mashed potatoes, and makes an excellent condiment for your next-day turkey sandwich. Store-bought cranberry sauce is perfectly acceptable (many professional chefs even prefer it), but if you’re going to take the shortcut…

We Blind-Tasted Whole-Berry Cranberry Sauces, and Found a Clear Winner

The best cranberry sauce might not come from the brand you'd expect.Jake Sternquist / Food Styling: Ashley SandovalCranberry sauce is one of those Thanksgiving dishes that everyone has an opinion about. Some people love it, other's will gladly skip it. And then there's the debate of smooth jellied cranberry sauce vs. whole berry sauces. For me, there's only one option for jellied cranberry sauce, and that's Ocean Spray. It's the one I grew up ea…

Cranberry bogs bring in the harvest

Did you know that the cranberry used to be called the “craneberry?” When the colonists first learned of this berry from their American Indian hosts in the New World, they thought the blooms of the native shrub looked like the…