SkinnyPop Popcorn vs Butter Popcorn Rice Cakes: which is safer?
Quaker Butter Popcorn Rice Cakes is the clear pick. SkinnyPop Popcorn carries a failing PFAS grade, and we never recommend buying a failing product.
Skinny Pop
SkinnyPop Popcorn
PFAS grade
Overall grade
Verdict
Hazard flags
Material
Confidence
LikelyPFAS in grease-resistant coating
PossibleCoating particle migration if bag is damaged
PossibleMineral oil or petroleum-derived lubricants in coating
Our pick
Quaker
Butter Popcorn Rice Cakes
PFAS grade
Overall grade
Verdict
Hazard flags
Material
Confidence
PossibleMold or bacterial growth in packaging
Where these two actually differ
- We flag PFAS in grease-resistant coating, Coating particle migration if bag is damaged and Mineral oil or petroleum-derived lubricants in coating on the Skinny Pop and not on the Quaker.
- We flag Mold or bacterial growth in packaging on the Quaker and not on the Skinny Pop.
- The Skinny Pop is paper/paperboard bag with grease-resistant coating where the Quaker is puffed rice cakes in paperboard packaging, 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 Quaker is the one to buy.
- We are less certain about the Skinny Pop grade, at 45% confidence against 72%, because it discloses less.
Both products run through the same public rubric, which covers 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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