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

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

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

Lamb Weston Colossal Crisp French Fries

Lamb Weston

Colossal Crisp French Fries

PFAS grade

Poor 25/100

Overall grade

Bad 11/100

Verdict

Skip

Hazard flags

⚑ 2

Material

Paper/cardboard box with grease-resistant coating

Confidence

45%

PossiblePFAS in grease-resistant packaging coating

ReportedAcrylamide formation in heated starchy foods

Where these two actually differ

  • We flag Acrylamide formation during cooking on the Cascadian Farm and not on the Lamb Weston.
  • We flag PFAS in grease-resistant packaging coating and Acrylamide formation in heated starchy foods on the Lamb Weston and not on the Cascadian Farm.
  • The Cascadian Farm is paper/cardboard box and plastic film inner bag where the Lamb Weston is Paper/cardboard box with grease-resistant coating, 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 Lamb Weston 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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