Organic Oven Fries Wedge Cut vs Hand Cut Style Fries: which is safer?
Cascadian Farm Organic Oven Fries Wedge Cut is the clear pick. Lamb Weston Hand Cut Style Fries carries a failing PFAS grade, and we never recommend buying a failing product.
Our pick
Cascadian Farm
Organic Oven Fries Wedge Cut
PFAS grade
Overall grade
Verdict
Hazard flags
Material
Confidence
PossibleAcrylamide formation during cooking
Lamb Weston
Hand Cut Style Fries
PFAS grade
Overall grade
Verdict
Hazard flags
Material
Confidence
PossibleGrease-resistant coating leachables (non-PFAS Teflon-family coating or alternatives)
ReportedAcrylamide in fried potatoes
PossiblePackaging degradation over extended freezer storage
Where these two actually differ
- We flag Acrylamide formation during cooking on the Cascadian Farm and not on the Lamb Weston.
- We flag Grease-resistant coating leachables (non-PFAS fluoropolymers or alternatives), Acrylamide in fried potatoes, Packaging degradation over extended freezer storage and Sodium content 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 packaging 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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