Organic Oven Fries Wedge Cut vs Extra Crispy Fast Food Fries: which is safer?

Cascadian Farm Organic Oven Fries Wedge Cut is the clear pick. Ore-Ida Extra Crispy Fast Food 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

Ore-Ida Extra Crispy Fast Food Fries

Ore-Ida

Extra Crispy Fast Food Fries

PFAS grade

Poor 25/100

Overall grade

Bad 0/100

Verdict

Skip

Hazard flags

⚑ 3

Material

paper/cardboard packaging with grease-resistant coating (likely fluorinated or PFAS-based)

Confidence

62%

LikelyPFAS in grease-resistant coating

PossibleAcrylamide formation (cooking byproduct)

ReportedSodium content

Where these two actually differ

  • We flag Acrylamide formation during cooking on the Cascadian Farm and not on the Ore-Ida.
  • We flag PFAS in grease-resistant coating, Acrylamide formation (cooking byproduct) and Sodium content on the Ore-Ida and not on the Cascadian Farm.
  • The Cascadian Farm is paper/cardboard box and plastic film inner bag where the Ore-Ida is paper/cardboard packaging with grease-resistant coating (likely fluorinated or PFAS-based), 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.

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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