Made in Canada products: A complete guide to buying Canadian brands at the grocery store — food, drinks and more
After more than three months of navigating tariffs and subsequent price increases, many Canadians are still choosing to put their money behind home grown and manufactured goods. As tariff discussions continue to unfold between Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump, a whopping 95 per cent of more than 9,900 Yahoo Canada readers who voted in a recent poll said that they want to buy Canadian products whenever possible, while only four per cent said the issue didn't concern them.
'I fully intend to buy Canadian and leave American products on the shelves. Most people I know, as well as my family members, are all insisting that they will continue to restrict their purchases to Canadian products even if Trump does not impose tariffs,' a Yahoo Canada reader said earlier this year via e-mail. 'The threat of the punitive tariffs is enough. I will never buy American."
'One option to push back on our American bullies is when we can't find a Canadian alternative, to buy Mexican in solidarity with our true allies — especially when it comes to our groceries," said another. "Failing that, [we can] buy anything other than American - we have lots of choices."
"I was always conscientious about Canadian products but now I'm going to be laser-focused on it especially at the grocery store,' a Yahoo Canada reader said.
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By shopping Canadian products and brands, consumers in Canada are exempt from tariffs, which means potentially saving money. Plus, there's the added benefit of supporting Canadian manufacturers who may be impacted by the U.S. import tariffs.
Some grocery stores have opted to label Canadian made products with a Canadian flag next to its price tag to help conscious shoppers. Here are some other ways to tell if a product is made in Canada:
Look for a "Product of Canada" label
This label means that approximately 98 per cent of ingredients, processing and labour used to produce the product areCanadian. According to the Government of Canada, products that claim to be "Canadian" are considered the same as "Product of Canada."Check for "Made in Canada" labels
When products are labelled as "Made in Canada" it means that a majority of the product's last substantial transformation occurred in Canada. A substantial transformation of a product would include combining ingredients to create a new product. For example, ingredients like eggs, sugar and butter undergo a substantial transformation to produce cookies.
A product can also have a "Made in Canada" label if a majority (at least 51 per cent) of the costs incurred in manufacturing or producing the goods were incurred in Canada even if some ingredients are from other countries.
Some packages may include qualifiers to ensure that the consumer knows some ingredients were imported from other countries.
Examples of qualifiers can include:
Distilled in Canada
Refined in Canada
Packaged in Canada
Processed in Canada
Look for 100% claims
All ingredients, processing and labour for the product (and all of its components) are from Canada.
If you're someone choosing to shop consciously given the tariffs, we've gathered a helpful list of Canadian brands and those manufactured in Canada to help you on your next grocery shop.
ADL
Agropur
Arla's Foods
Black Diamond
Blakwell Dairy
Bothwell Cheese
Chapman's
Cheez Whiz (manufactured in Canada)
Daiya
Eagle Brand
Earth's Own
D. Dutchmen Farms
Danone ( brands Activia, Oikos and Danone all prepared in Canada)
La Fromagerie Kapuskoise
Gay Lea
Grass Root Dairies
Halo Top
Hewitt's
Island Farms
Laiterie de Caoticook
Lactancia
Kawartha Dairy
Keenan Farms
Kraft Singles (manufactured in Canada)
Miller's Dairy
Natrel
Philadelphia Cream Cheese (manufactured in Canada)
Saputo
Shaw Ice Cream
Sheldon Creek Dairy
Silani Cheese
Slate River Dairy
Skotidakis
St. Albert Cheese Factory
Tre Stelle
Triple 'A' Cheese
Thunder Oak Cheese Farm
Upper Canada Creamery
Gunn's Hill Artisan Cheese
Dainty
Natura
Billy Bee Honey
Club House
Doyon Honey
Crave (desserts and dry ingredients)
E.D. Smith Jam
Ferrero
Five Roses Flour
No Name
Redpath Sugar
Robin Hood Flour
Shiriff
Dr. Oetker
You may want to support these Canadian brands and products brewed in Canada:
13th Street
Arizona Hard Tea
Brasseur de Montreal
Blue Moon
Black Horse
Bohemian
Canadian Club
Carling
Collective Arts
Coors Edge
Coors Seltzer
Coors Light
Coors Original
Copper Rose Vodka
Creemore Springs
Crown Royal
Dillons
Dominion Ale
Fine Company Beer
Forty Creek
Granville Island Brewing
Georgian Bay
Hop Valley Brewing
India Beer
Keystone
Labatt Blue
Laurentide
Le Trou du Diable
Mad Jack
Madrí Excepcional
Miller Genuine Draft
Miller Lite
Miller High Life
Molson Canadian
Molson Canadian Cold Shot
Molson Dry
Molson Exel
Molson Export
Molson Ultra
Molson XXX
Moosehead
Vienna
O'Keefe
Old Style Pilsner
Redstone
Rickard's
Simply Spiked
Sol
Tawse
Vizzy Hard Seltzer
You may want to support these Canadian brands and products manufactured in Canada:
Arva Flour Mills
Casa Mendoza
Country Harvest
D'Italiano
Dempsters (manufactured in Canada)
Dimpflmeier Bakery
Gadoua
Goh Goh Cereal
Grandma Emily
Holy Crap Cereal
K2 Milling
La Milanaise
Little Northern Bakehouse
NorQuin
Nature's Path
O'Doughs
One Degree Organics
Rogers
Rudolph's Bakeries
Sunny Boy Foods
Sunny Crunch Foods
Stone Mill Bakehouse
Yumi Organics
Wonder (manufactured in Canada)
Brandt Meats
Direct Plus Food Group:
Grimm's Fine Foods,
McSweeney's
Country Prime Meats,
Saporé Foods
Freybye
Greenfield Nautural Meat Co.
Harvest Meats
Lou's Kitchen
Maple Leaf Foods
Salumeria il Tagliere
Sofina Foods: Janes, Lilydale, Mastro, San Daniele, Riserva, Cuddy, Vienna, Fletcher's, Zamzam
Tony's Meats
Audrey's Patisserie
Camino Chocolate
Celebration Cookies
Covered Bridge
Krack-O-Pop
Dare Foods
Ganong Chocolates
Georgian Bay Granola Company
Hardbite
Hawkins Cheezies
Hippie Snacks
Hummingbird Chocolate
Humpty Dumpty
Inno Foods
Johnvince FoodsP
Kerrs Canady
La Cocina Tortilla Chips
La Montagne Chocolates
Lady Sarah Cookies
Laura Secord Chocolates
Leclerc
Made Good Foods
Maple Leaf CookiesA
MDR
Nomz
Old Dutch
OMG!
Peace by Chocolate
Purdy's Chocolate
Ronnie's Original Jumbo Seeds
Ross Chocolates
Skippy's Kettlecorn
Sun-Rype
Uncle Bob's Popcorn
Voortman
Zak Organics Food
Alymer Accents
Buster Rhino BBQ Sauce
French's Mustard (prepared in Canada)
Fire in the Kitchen
Greetalia Foods
GoBio! Organics
Heartbeat Hot Sauce
Kozlik's Canadian Mustard
Kraft Heinz Canada (manufactured in Canada)
Little Creek (Salad Dressings)
Lord's Hot Sauce
PEI Sea Salt Co.
Peppermaster Hot Sauces
Renées
Ro*Tel
Silk Road Spices
Spice of Life Selections
The Ketchup Project
Vancouver Sea Salt
Windsor Salt
Balzac's Coffee Roasters
Bean North Roasting
Beaver Rock Roastery
Coastal Coffee Company
Fratello Coffee Roasters
Grounded Coffee Company
Jumping Bean Coffee
Just Us Coffee
Laughing Whale
Midnight Sun Coffee Roasters
Muskoka Roastery Coffee Co.
Nabob
Salt Spring Coffee
Salt Spring Coffee
Kintore Coffee Co.
Van Houtte
3 Teas
Amoda Tea
Auras Teas
Blue Teapot
Capital Tea
ChaNoir
Citizen Tea
David's Tea
Distincly Tea
Escarpment Gardens
Four O'Clock Teas
Just Tea
Premium Tea
Red Rose Tea
Shanti Tea
Tea Desire
Tea Santa
Tealchemy
Tealish
The Naked Leaf
The Tea Haus
Four O'Clock Teas
AlJuice
Allen's
Alphonso
Apple & Eve
Clearly Canadian
Fairly Fruit
Graves
Great Value
Happy Parent
Hydra+
Kiju bilogique
Naya Bottled Water
Northland
Oasis
Old Orchard
Old South
PC Cola
Rougemont
Ruby Kist
SunRype
Switch
The Pop Shoppe
Walter Caesar
Whistler Water
Note: Coca-Cola and PepsiCo have manufacturing facilities in Canada, but are not Canadian brands.
Arctic Gardens (manufactured in Canada)
Compliments
Cavendish Farms
Green Giant (manufactured in Canada)
Conscious
High Liner Goods
M&M Foods
McCain Foods
Nature's Path
President's Choice
Support Canadian pet food brands like:
Arcana
Canadian Naturals
Nutram Pet Food
Open Farm
Orijen Cat Fo
Oven Baked Tradition
Bonterra
Cascades
Cashmere
Purex
Royale
Scotties
Sponge Towels
Tru Earth
Nature Clean
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