Organic Oven Fries Wedge Cut vs Quick Cook Straight Cut French Fried Potatoes: which is safer?
Cascadian Farm Organic Oven Fries Wedge Cut is the clear pick. McCain Quick Cook Straight Cut French Fried Potatoes 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
McCain
Quick Cook Straight Cut French Fried Potatoes
PFAS grade
Overall grade
Verdict
Hazard flags
Material
Confidence
LikelyPFAS migration from grease-resistant paperboard coating
ReportedAcrylamide formation during frying
ReportedSodium and trans fats from partial frying
Where these two actually differ
- We flag Acrylamide formation during cooking on the Cascadian Farm and not on the McCain.
- We flag PFAS migration from grease-resistant paperboard coating, Acrylamide formation during frying, Sodium and trans fats from partial frying and Coating degradation or flaking into food during freezing on the McCain and not on the Cascadian Farm.
- The Cascadian Farm is paper/cardboard box and plastic film inner bag where the McCain is cardboard box with grease-resistant coating; frozen potato product, 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 McCain 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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