Market, Organic Reduced Fat And Sodium Popcorn vs Butter Popcorn Rice Cakes: which is safer?
Quaker Butter Popcorn Rice Cakes is the clear pick. 365 by Whole Foods Market, Organic Reduced Fat And Sodium Popcorn carries a failing PFAS grade, and we never recommend buying a failing product.
365 by Whole Foods
Market, Organic Reduced Fat And Sodium Popcorn
PFAS grade
Overall grade
Verdict
Hazard flags
Material
Confidence
LikelyPFAS in grease-resistant coating
PossibleMicroplastics or coating particles shed into food
Our pick
Quaker
Butter Popcorn Rice Cakes
PFAS grade
Overall grade
Verdict
Hazard flags
Material
Confidence
PossibleMold or bacterial growth in packaging
Where these two actually differ
- We flag PFAS in grease-resistant coating and Microplastics or coating particles shed into food on the 365 by Whole Foods and not on the Quaker.
- We flag Mold or bacterial growth in packaging on the Quaker and not on the 365 by Whole Foods.
- The 365 by Whole Foods is paper/paperboard popcorn bag with grease-resistant coating where the Quaker is puffed rice cakes in paperboard packaging, which is most of the difference in these two grades.
- The gap is 45 points, wide enough that this is not a close call, and the Quaker is the one to buy.
- We are less certain about the 365 by Whole Foods grade, at 45% confidence against 72%, because it discloses less.
Both products run through the same public rubric: materials, coatings, brand disclosure, lab findings, and recalls, plus a beyond-PFAS hazard analysis. Grades are model-based estimates, not lab tests. How grades work →
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