Baking Parchment Paper Roll vs Baking Paper, Parchment, 70 Square Feet: which is safer?

If You Care Baking Paper, Parchment, 70 Square Feet is the clear pick. Great Value Baking Parchment Paper Roll carries a failing PFAS grade, and we never recommend buying a failing product.

Great Value Baking Parchment Paper Roll

Great Value

Baking Parchment Paper Roll

PFAS grade

Poor 25/100

Overall grade

Bad 3/100

Verdict

Skip

Hazard flags

⚑ 4

Material

silicone-coated paper (coating chemistry undisclosed)

Confidence

35%

PossibleSilicone coating degradation at high heat

PossibleMicroplastic/particle shedding from worn coating

PossibleSilicone migration into fatty or acidic foods

Our pick

If You Care Baking Paper, Parchment, 70 Square Feet

If You Care

Baking Paper, Parchment, 70 Square Feet

PFAS grade

Excellent 90/100

Overall grade

Excellent 86/100

Verdict

Buy

Hazard flags

⚑ 1

Material

silicone-coated parchment paper

Confidence

82%

PossiblePaper degradation and particulate shedding

Where these two actually differ

  • We flag Silicone coating degradation at high heat, Microplastic/particle shedding from worn coating, Silicone migration into fatty or acidic foods and Fluorochemical residue in coating (non-PFAS related hazards of fluoropolymers) on the Great Value and not on the If You Care.
  • We flag Paper degradation and particulate shedding on the If You Care and not on the Great Value.
  • The Great Value is silicone-coated paper (coating chemistry undisclosed) where the If You Care is silicone-coated parchment paper, which is most of the difference in these two grades.
  • The gap is 65 points, wide enough that this is not a close call, and the If You Care is the one to buy.
  • We are less certain about the Great Value grade, at 35% confidence against 82%, 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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