Built All Day Insulated Lunch Bag vs Double Wall Vacuum Insulated Stainless Steel Food Canister Container with Leak Proof Lid: which is safer?

Klean Kanteen Double Wall Vacuum Insulated Stainless Steel Food Canister Container with Leak Proof Lid is the clear pick. Built NY Built All Day Insulated Lunch Bag carries a failing PFAS grade, and we never recommend buying a failing product.

Built NY Built All Day Insulated Lunch Bag

Built NY

Built All Day Insulated Lunch Bag

PFAS grade

Poor 25/100

Overall grade

Bad 7/100

Verdict

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Hazard flags

⚑ 3

Material

Polyester exterior with waterproof coating (unspecified type)

Confidence

35%

PossibleWaterproof coating leachables (non-PFAS)

PossiblePolyester microplastics from fiber shedding

ReportedCoating degradation and flaking

Our pick

Klean Kanteen Double Wall Vacuum Insulated Stainless Steel Food Canister Container with Leak Proof Lid

Klean Kanteen

Double Wall Vacuum Insulated Stainless Steel Food Canister Container with Leak Proof Lid

PFAS grade

Excellent 100/100

Overall grade

Excellent 88/100

Verdict

Buy

Hazard flags

⚑ 3

Material

Stainless steel body, silicone gasket lid seal

Confidence

82%

PossibleSilicone gasket degradation

PossibleBacterial growth in vacuum seal

PossibleSurface corrosion under acidic conditions

Where these two actually differ

  • We flag Waterproof coating leachables (non-PFAS), Polyester microplastics from fiber shedding and Coating degradation and flaking on the Built NY and not on the Klean Kanteen.
  • We flag Silicone gasket degradation, Bacterial growth in vacuum seal and Surface corrosion under acidic conditions on the Klean Kanteen and not on the Built NY.
  • The Built NY is Polyester exterior with waterproof coating (unspecified type) where the Klean Kanteen is Stainless steel body, silicone gasket lid seal, which is most of the difference in these two grades.
  • The gap is 75 points, wide enough that this is not a close call, and the Klean Kanteen is the one to buy.
  • We are less certain about the Built NY grade, at 35% confidence against 82%, 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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