Organic Oven Fries Wedge Cut vs Super Crispy Shoestring Fries: which is safer?
Cascadian Farm Organic Oven Fries Wedge Cut is the clear pick. Lamb Weston Super Crispy Shoestring 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
Super Crispy Shoestring Fries
PFAS grade
Overall grade
Verdict
Hazard flags
Material
Confidence
ReportedAcrylamide (cooking byproduct)
ReportedSodium content
PossibleCoating degradation and food contact leaching
Where these two actually differ
- We flag Acrylamide formation during cooking on the Cascadian Farm and not on the Lamb Weston.
- We flag Acrylamide (cooking byproduct), Sodium content, Coating degradation and food contact leaching and Pesticide residues 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 suspected 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 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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