X Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The Big New Yorker Pizza Box 16” vs 8" Kraft Paper Open Pizza Box: which is safer?
8" Kraft Paper Open Pizza Box is the clear pick. Pizza Hut X Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The Big New Yorker Pizza Box 16” carries a failing PFAS grade, and we never recommend buying a failing product.
Pizza Hut
X Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The Big New Yorker Pizza Box 16”
PFAS grade
Overall grade
Verdict
Hazard flags
Material
Confidence
LikelyFluorinated grease-resistant coating (PFAS proxy)
PossibleCoating migration into food (short-term contact)
ReportedThermal breakdown of coating if reused for heating
Our pick
8" Kraft Paper Open Pizza Box
PFAS grade
Overall grade
Verdict
Hazard flags
Material
Confidence
PossibleChlorine residues from kraft pulp bleaching
PossibleHeavy metals in inks and adhesives
LikelyGrease saturation and structural failure
Where these two actually differ
- We flag Fluorinated grease-resistant coating (PFAS proxy), Coating migration into food (short-term contact), Thermal breakdown of coating if reused for heating and Recycling contamination (fluorinated residue) on the Pizza Hut and not on the .
- We flag Chlorine residues from kraft pulp bleaching, Heavy metals in inks and adhesives, Grease saturation and structural failure and Microcontaminants from recycled fiber content on the and not on the Pizza Hut.
- The Pizza Hut is Coated paperboard (grease-resistant coating composition unspecified) where the is Kraft paper (uncoated), 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 is the one to buy.
- We are less certain about the Pizza Hut grade, at 45% confidence against 78%, 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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