Organic Oven Fries Wedge Cut vs Ore Ida Golden Crinkles French Fried Potatoes: which is safer?
Cascadian Farm Organic Oven Fries Wedge Cut is the clear pick. Ore Ida Golden Crinkles 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
Ore-Ida
Ore Ida Golden Crinkles French Fried Potatoes
PFAS grade
Overall grade
Verdict
Hazard flags
Material
Confidence
LikelyPFAS in grease-resistant coating
PossibleAcrylamide formation during frying
PossibleHeavy metals in potatoes (cadmium, lead)
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 during frying and Heavy metals in potatoes (cadmium, lead) 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, 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 Ore-Ida 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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