Butter Popcorn Rice Cakes vs SkinnyPop Butter Microwave Popcorn: which is safer?
Quaker Butter Popcorn Rice Cakes is the clear pick. SkinnyPop Butter Microwave Popcorn carries a failing PFAS grade, and we never recommend buying a failing product.
Our pick
Quaker
Butter Popcorn Rice Cakes
PFAS grade
Overall grade
Verdict
Hazard flags
Material
Confidence
PossibleMold or bacterial growth in packaging
SkinnyPop Butter Microwave Popcorn
PFAS grade
Overall grade
Verdict
Hazard flags
Material
Confidence
PossibleGrease-resistant coating migration (non-PFAS components)
PossibleMicroplastics from bag degradation
PossibleVolatile organic compounds (VOCs) from bag off-gassing
Where these two actually differ
- We flag Mold or bacterial growth in packaging on the Quaker and not on the .
- We flag Grease-resistant coating migration (non-PFAS components), Microplastics from bag degradation and Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from bag off-gassing on the and not on the Quaker.
- The Quaker is puffed rice cakes in paperboard packaging where the is Microwave popcorn bag with grease-resistant inner 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 Quaker is the one to buy.
- We are less certain about the 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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