If youre planning on baking a pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving this year which, you really should be then we bet youre going to pick up a can or two of canned pumpkin. While some folks might take the challenge and make their own pumpkin puree, most like to go the Ina Garten route and stick with canned because it usually tastes better. (The fresh stuff can be too watery and sometimes just bland.)

But which canned pumpkin is the best buy?

If you think theyre all the same, you couldnt be more wrong. The folks at Cooks Illustrated tested three popular brands Libbys , One-Pie and Farmers Market Organic Pumpkin . Each canned pumpkin was tasted plain, baked into a cake, and baked into a pie.

The results were strikingly different.