Crinkle Cut French Fries vs Organic Oven Fries Wedge Cut: which is safer?

Cascadian Farm Organic Oven Fries Wedge Cut is the clear pick. Cascadian Farm Crinkle Cut French Fries carries a failing PFAS grade, and we never recommend buying a failing product.

Cascadian Farm Crinkle Cut French Fries

Cascadian Farm

Crinkle Cut French Fries

PFAS grade

Poor 25/100

Overall grade

Bad 11/100

Verdict

Skip

Hazard flags

⚑ 2

Material

Paper/cardboard packaging with potential grease-resistant coating

Confidence

42%

ReportedGrease-resistant coating (PFAS-class compounds)

PossibleAcrylamide formation (processing hazard)

Our pick

Cascadian Farm Organic Oven Fries Wedge Cut

Cascadian Farm

Organic Oven Fries Wedge Cut

PFAS grade

Good 70/100

Overall grade

Good 66/100

Verdict

Buy

Hazard flags

⚑ 1

Material

paper/cardboard box and plastic film inner bag

Confidence

72%

PossibleAcrylamide formation during cooking

Where these two actually differ

  • We flag Grease-resistant coating (PFAS-class compounds) and Acrylamide formation (processing hazard) on the Cascadian Farm and not on the Cascadian Farm.
  • We flag Acrylamide formation during cooking on the Cascadian Farm and not on the Cascadian Farm.
  • The Cascadian Farm is Paper/cardboard packaging with potential grease-resistant coating where the Cascadian Farm is paper/cardboard box and plastic film inner bag, 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 Cascadian Farm is the one to buy.
  • We are less certain about the Cascadian Farm grade, at 42% 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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