Clover Valley (Dollar General)

Clover Valley at Dollar General aggressively cuts corners to keep prices at rock bottom, but you pay in taste and nutrition. A can of its vegetable soup costs just $1.25, yet lists high-fructose corn syrup and disodium guanylate—ingredients that read like a chemistry midterm. Outperforming #3 Our Family in cheapness, Clover Valley still loses to Great Value (rank #1) because Walmart’s brand has at least a slightly broader quality baseline. For example, Clover Valley’s peanut butter is 20% thinner than the national average, a measurement backed by its higher oil separation rate. Essential Everyday (rank #4) avoids such extreme artificial additives, earning Clover Valley the runner-up spot for worst overall.