Parchment Paper vs Baking Paper, Parchment, 70 Square Feet: which is safer?
If You Care Baking Paper, Parchment, 70 Square Feet is the clear pick. Reynolds Parchment Paper carries a failing PFAS grade, and we never recommend buying a failing product.
Reynolds
Parchment Paper
PFAS grade
Overall grade
Verdict
Hazard flags
Material
Confidence
LikelyPFAS in grease-resistant coating (fluorinated compounds)
PossibleCoating migration into hot/fatty food
PossibleMicroplastics or silicone fragment shedding
Our pick
If You Care
Baking Paper, Parchment, 70 Square Feet
PFAS grade
Overall grade
Verdict
Hazard flags
Material
Confidence
PossiblePaper degradation and particulate shedding
Where these two actually differ
- We flag PFAS in grease-resistant coating (fluorinated compounds), Coating migration into hot/fatty food and Microplastics or silicone fragment shedding on the Reynolds and not on the If You Care.
- We flag Paper degradation and particulate shedding on the If You Care and not on the Reynolds.
- The Reynolds is Paper with grease-resistant coating 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 Reynolds grade, at 45% confidence against 82%, 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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