Angie's Boomchickapop Lightly Sweet Kettle Corn Microwave Popcorn vs Butter Popcorn Rice Cakes: which is safer?

Quaker Butter Popcorn Rice Cakes is the clear pick. Angie's Boomchickapop Lightly Sweet Kettle Corn Microwave Popcorn carries a failing PFAS grade, and we never recommend buying a failing product.

Angie's Boomchickapop Lightly Sweet Kettle Corn Microwave Popcorn

Angie's Boom Chicka Pop

Angie's Boomchickapop Lightly Sweet Kettle Corn Microwave Popcorn

PFAS grade

Poor 25/100

Overall grade

Bad 0/100

Verdict

Skip

Hazard flags

⚑ 3

Material

Paper/cardboard microwave popcorn bag with grease-resistant coating

Confidence

45%

LikelyPFAS in grease-resistant coating

PossibleMicroplastics or polymer particulates from bag degradation

PossibleMineral oil or synthetic paraffins in coating

Our pick

Quaker Butter Popcorn Rice Cakes

Quaker

Butter Popcorn Rice Cakes

PFAS grade

Good 70/100

Overall grade

Good 66/100

Verdict

Buy

Hazard flags

⚑ 1

Material

puffed rice cakes in paperboard packaging

Confidence

72%

PossibleMold or bacterial growth in packaging

Where these two actually differ

  • We flag PFAS in grease-resistant coating, Microplastics or polymer particulates from bag degradation and Mineral oil or synthetic paraffins in coating on the Angie's Boom Chicka Pop and not on the Quaker.
  • We flag Mold or bacterial growth in packaging on the Quaker and not on the Angie's Boom Chicka Pop.
  • The Angie's Boom Chicka Pop is Paper/cardboard microwave 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 Angie's Boom Chicka Pop grade, at 45% confidence against 72%, because it discloses less.

Both products run through the same public rubric, which covers 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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