"...but basically all food is allowed to have a tiny amount of those."

It's not a little sand. It's distributed throughout. Store-bought and bakery pies don't have sand. They aren't growing, picking, preparing their own pumpkin filling. They buy theirs from a wholesale distributor. If they can make their filling sand-less, so should Libby's - like they used to. It's about quality control, and they should be reported, everywhere, by all of us!

Sandy pumpkin filling is unservable!

Anonymous wrote:Isn't sand in canned foods considered a foreign substance? It's not listed on the label as an ingredient. Shouldn't this prompt a recall?

Neither are cockroach legs and rat hairs, but basically all food is allowed to have a tiny amount of those.

I've never run into this and have a hard time thinking there'd be enough sand that it would affect the entire texture. But I mostly make sweet potato pie instead.

Isn't sand in canned foods considered a foreign substance? It's not listed on the label as an ingredient. Shouldn't this prompt a recall?

For some reason, Libby's ORGANIC pumpkin has no grit. Don't know why this is so, but that's the fact. It's definitely worth the extra money to get a sand-free product -- the way it was in the "good old days." The way to check for sand and grit (before actually using the puree for baking) is to dip a teaspoonful from the middle of the can and put it in your mouth. You will know right off the bat if the product is good or has been contaminated. As far as I can tell, all of Libby's regular, non-organic pumpkin puree is gritty and inedible.