Check Your Wholesome Pantry Applesauce Jar
Use the UPC and June 16, 2027 best-by date to identify recalled Wholesome Pantry Organic Unsweetened Apple Sauce and find return instructions.
The recalled jar is Wholesome Pantry Organic Unsweetened Apple Sauce in a 23-ounce plastic jar, with UPC 04119005677 and a best-by date of June 16, 2027. All four fields must match. Wakefern says not to consume a matching jar; return it to the store for an immediate refund or replacement. The recall notice does not publish a separate lot code.
Enter the UPC and best-by date from your 23-ounce jar; the checker compares them with the recalled batch.
Is My Jar Recalled?
This comparison applies only to Wholesome Pantry Organic Unsweetened Apple Sauce in a 23-ounce plastic jar.
If the jar is also the named product and package, do not consume it. Return it to the store for an immediate refund or replacement.
- UPC: 04119005677
- Best by: June 16, 2027
- Required package: 23-ounce plastic jar
Source: FDA-posted Wakefern recall notice. No separate lot code or patulin concentration is published.
The Recalled Jar Has Four Matching Fields
The store where the applesauce was purchased does not identify the recalled jar by itself. Use the product name, package, UPC and best-by date printed on the package.
| Field | Recalled value |
|---|---|
| Brand and product | Wholesome Pantry Organic Unsweetened Apple Sauce |
| Package | 23-ounce plastic jar |
| UPC | 04119005677 |
| Best-by date | June 16, 2027 |
| Recall reason | Elevated patulin levels |
| Consumer action | Do not consume; return for a refund or replacement |
Wakefern Food Corp.’s company announcement is dated September 14, 2026. The FDA published the announcement on September 22, 2026. The FDA recall notice identifies this one product configuration and says no other products sold at the named supermarket banners are affected.
The notice names ShopRite, Price Rite Marketplace, The Fresh Grocer, Gourmet Garage and Fairway Market. Those banners are distribution context, not additional product identifiers. A jar bought under one of those banners still needs to match the four package fields. Conversely, the identifying fields should not be ignored simply because a shopper is uncertain which banner sold the jar.
No separate lot number appears in the published announcement. If the jar has another production code, the public notice does not provide a value against which to compare it. The best-by date is the batch-specific date supplied in the notice, so a checker or spreadsheet should not invent a lot number or treat the UPC alone as sufficient.
Read the UPC as an Exact Text Value
The recalled UPC is 04119005677. The initial zero is part of the identifier. Compare the complete printed value, including that zero, rather than converting it to a number.
A jar whose UPC is 04119005677 passes the UPC portion of the check. It is not yet a complete recall match: the label must also say Wholesome Pantry Organic Unsweetened Apple Sauce, the package must be a 23-ounce plastic jar, and the best-by date must be June 16, 2027.
If the printed code has a different digit, has more or fewer digits, or no longer begins with zero, it is not an exact match for the UPC published in this notice. An unreadable code is not evidence of a non-match. In that situation, do not guess at the missing digits; use the consumer contact listed in the notice or ask the retailer to verify the package.
The UPC should also remain text when copied into a spreadsheet. Numeric conversion can turn 04119005677 into 4119005677, producing a value that looks similar but no longer supports a reliable exact match. The same problem can occur when opening or exporting a CSV. The CSV leading-zero checklist covers checks through import, publication and export.
Match the Best-By Date Separately
The recalled best-by date is June 16, 2027. It is not the recall announcement date. The company announcement date is September 14, 2026, while the date identifying the affected package is printed for the consumer as June 16, 2027.
A UPC match with a different best-by date does not match the product configuration described in the notice. A June 16, 2027 date with a different UPC also does not match it. Both values must agree, and the product and package descriptions must agree as well.
That distinction prevents two common false matches. One is treating every Wholesome Pantry applesauce jar as recalled because the brand and product look right. The other is treating every product bearing the same date as recalled even when its UPC identifies something else. The notice supports neither shortcut.
When a date is stored for sorting or filtering, use 2027-06-16 as the machine-readable value and display “June 16, 2027” to readers. Store the announcement date separately as 2026-09-14. Combining those fields under a generic column called “date” makes it unclear whether a row describes the package or the recall event.
A Full Match Should Be Returned, Not Consumed
Wakefern’s instruction for a matching jar is: do not consume it. Return it to the store for an immediate refund or replacement.
The notice lists 1-800-ShopRite, or 1-800-746-7748, for consumer questions. The stated hours are Monday through Friday, 8 a.m.–6 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. The announcement does not specify a time zone in the text provided.
A result from the checker that says the two entered values match still depends on the product and package confirmation shown beside it. The tool is not intended to classify a different Wholesome Pantry product, another package size or a non-plastic container merely because someone enters the recalled UPC and date manually.
A mismatch means only that the entered UPC and best-by date do not match this particular notice. It does not establish that the food is unaffected by every possible recall or otherwise evaluate its condition. Recheck the printed characters before relying on a mismatch, especially where a label is smudged or a leading zero may have been omitted during transcription.
The FDA-posted announcement says no illnesses or injuries associated with this recall had been reported. That statement reflects the status reported in the notice; it does not change the return instruction for a matching jar.
The Notice Does Not Identify Affected States
The recall announcement names five supermarket banners: ShopRite, Price Rite Marketplace, The Fresh Grocer, Gourmet Garage and Fairway Market. It does not provide individual store locations or a state-by-state distribution list for the recalled jars.
The notice includes states when describing Wakefern’s broader operating footprint. That is not the same as saying the recalled applesauce reached every state in that footprint. Those states should not be copied into a table headed “affected states” without product-level distribution evidence.
TODAY’s review of the recall makes the same distinction: the notice does not specify the states where the recalled jars were sold. The reliable consumer check therefore remains the package data, not an inferred geography.
The company also says no other products sold at the five named banners are affected. That language is specific to this announcement. It should not be rewritten as a claim about products or retailers outside the scope of the notice.
The Published Patulin Result Has No Concentration
The stated reason for the recall is elevated patulin, described in the notice as a mold toxin. Routine FDA testing found patulin above acceptable levels, but the announcement does not publish the measured concentration for this applesauce.
FDA lists an action level of 50 parts per billion for the category “apple juice, apple juice concentrates, and apple juice products” in its contaminant-level listing. FDA’s compliance policy guidance discusses confirmatory testing and how the level is applied to the juice component of a food.
Those documents provide regulatory context, but they do not supply a laboratory result for this 23-ounce applesauce jar. The defensible entry in a recall table is “elevated patulin levels.” A concentration, a calculated multiple of the action level or an estimate of how far the product exceeded a limit would be unsupported.
The absence of a published concentration also means the checker should remain an identity test. It can compare the package identifiers with the recall notice, but it cannot calculate exposure or determine a jar’s patulin concentration.
Recall Tables Should Preserve One Product Record
A reusable recall table should place upc, best_by, package_size_oz and package_type in separate columns. For this record, the UPC should be text, the best-by value should be 2027-06-16, the package size should represent 23 ounces, and the package type should be a plastic jar.
Give the product record a stable key such as recall_product_id. Store each of the five retailer banners in a second table, with one recall_product_id and one retailer_banner per row. This avoids a semicolon-delimited retailer field and allows an interactive page to filter banners without making five copies of the same UPC and date.
That product-first structure also preserves the distinction between evidence and context. The exact product identifiers answer whether a jar matches. Retailer banners describe where the company says the product was sold. Wakefern’s operating footprint describes the company, not confirmed distribution of the recalled batch.
This is the same product-first approach used in the Taylor Farms recall product list: identifiers determine the product match, while retailer and distribution fields remain separately filterable.
A public export should retain the original display values as well as normalized fields. Keep 04119005677 for exact search, 2027-06-16 for date sorting, “June 16, 2027” for reader display and 2026-09-14 for the announcement date. Before publication, verify that a CSV round trip has not removed the UPC’s leading zero or changed the package date into the recall date.
Unknown fields should remain unknown. For this notice, a separate lot code, the measured patulin concentration, individual stores and confirmed affected states are not published. Marking those fields as — is more accurate than deriving values from the UPC, the retailer list or Wakefern’s general operating area.