Photograph: Lauren Spinelli
Photograph: Lauren Spinelli

15. Trader Joe’s pumpkin-spice granola cereal

We'll kick off our roundup with this seemingly innocent granola. It's the most inoffensive foodstuff on offer, because its allegiance to pumpkin is iffy at best. These crunchy clusters provide just enough stereotypically autumnal flavors to ease into the season without making you want to smash a pumpkin over your skull.

The 15 worst pumpkin-spice–flavored treats

It’s time for the annual rollout of pumpkin treats, from lattes to doughnuts—here are the grossest pumpkin-flavored goodies currently found in NYC

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Let us blow your mind: Pumpkin doesn’t taste like pumpkin, at least, not the pumpkin that supermarket shelves and coffeeshop conglomerates are selling you. Instead, the saccharine desserts, coffees and snacks billed as “pumpkin-flavored” this fall—and just in time for Halloween—are really just spiced with cinnamon, cloves and crushed souls. Before you go off on your own to pumpkin-pick at the grocery store, we’ve come up with a handy list to ward you from the grossest goodies of pumpkin-spice season. Are you ready to count down pumpkin "treats" in our slideshow below, from the merely bad to the truly obnoxious? Here we go!
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