King Arthur Baking Natural Half-Sheet Baking Parchment Paper vs Parchment Baking Sheets | 3 x 24 sheets: which is safer?
Parchment Baking Sheets | 3 x 24 sheets is the clear pick. King Arthur Baking Natural Half-Sheet Baking Parchment Paper carries a failing PFAS grade, and we never recommend buying a failing product.
Natural Value
King Arthur Baking Natural Half-Sheet Baking Parchment Paper
PFAS grade
Overall grade
Verdict
Hazard flags
Material
Confidence
PossibleSilicone/wax coating leaching (non-PFAS)
PossibleCoating degradation and particle shedding
Our pick
Seventh Generation
Parchment Baking Sheets | 3 x 24 sheets
PFAS grade
Overall grade
Verdict
Hazard flags
Material
Confidence
PossibleSilicone coating degradation and microparticles
PossibleHeat-induced breakdown of paper fibers
Where these two actually differ
- We flag Silicone/wax coating leaching (non-PFAS) and Coating degradation and particle shedding on the Natural Value and not on the Seventh Generation.
- We flag Silicone coating degradation and microparticles and Heat-induced breakdown of paper fibers on the Seventh Generation and not on the Natural Value.
- The Natural Value is paper with silicone and/or wax coating where the Seventh Generation is bleached paper with silicone 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 Seventh Generation is the one to buy.
- We are less certain about the Natural Value grade, at 42% 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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