Popped Sorghum Avocado Oil & Sea Salt

Name: Popped Sorghum Avocado Oil & Sea Salt
Brand: Nature Nate's

21Avoid

Contaminants · 4

3 at/over limit

From lab tests of this product’s family

Nature Nate's Popped Sorghum

This product wasn’t tested · results may differ

In the family’s tests: measured by an independent lab and compared against published safety limits.

Cadmium45 ppbof 5 ppb

Over the limit — 9×FDA bottled-water Standard of Quality, 21 CFR 165.110(b) — 0.005 mg/L

Measured in: Nature Nate s Popped Sorghum Rosemary and Garlic-5 oz

Lead6 ppbof 5 ppb

Over the limit — 1.2×FDA bottled-water Standard of Quality, 21 CFR 165.110(b) — 0.005 mg/L

Measured in: Nature Nate s Popped Sorghum Rosemary and Garlic-5 oz

Arsenic10 ppbof 10 ppb

At the limitFDA bottled-water Standard of Quality, 21 CFR 165.110(b) — 0.010 mg/L (= EPA MCL)

Measured in: Popped Sorghum Extremely Cheezy

MercuryNDof 2 ppb

Not detectedFDA bottled-water Standard of Quality, 21 CFR 165.110(b) — 0.002 mg/L

Measured in: Popped Sorghum Extremely Cheezy

Ingredients · 3

GoodCautionAvoid

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Common questions

Is Nature Nate's Popped Sorghum Avocado Oil & Sea Salt healthy?

Nature Nate's Popped Sorghum Avocado Oil & Sea Salt scores 21/100 on Tallow — our avoid band. That number comes from what is on the label: the ingredients, how processed it is, and what it is packaged in, plus lab results from its product family, Nature Nate's Popped Sorghum. It is not a verdict on your diet — Tallow does not weigh calories, portion size or how often you eat it, so a high score means the ingredients are clean, not that the food is unlimited.

What is in Nature Nate's Popped Sorghum Avocado Oil & Sea Salt?

Nature Nate's Popped Sorghum Avocado Oil & Sea Salt lists 3 ingredients, starting with Organic Sorghum, Avocado Oil and Sea Salt. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

Does Nature Nate's Popped Sorghum Avocado Oil & Sea Salt contain seed oils?

No. Nothing in Nature Nate's Popped Sorghum Avocado Oil & Sea Salt’s ingredient list matches a seed oil — canola, soybean, corn, cottonseed, grapeseed, sunflower, safflower, rice bran or peanut oil, or an unspecified "vegetable oil".

How processed is Nature Nate's Popped Sorghum Avocado Oil & Sea Salt?

Nature Nate's Popped Sorghum Avocado Oil & Sea Salt is NOVA group 3: processed, but not ultra-processed. NOVA runs 1 to 4, where 1 is whole food and 4 is ultra-processed.

How does Nature Nate's Popped Sorghum Avocado Oil & Sea Salt compare to other popcorn?

At 21/100 Nature Nate's Popped Sorghum Avocado Oil & Sea Salt scores worse than most popcorn we have scored. A higher-scoring option in popcorn is Lesser Evil Organic Popcorn Himalayan Pink Salt at 100/100.

Is Nature Nate's Popped Sorghum Avocado Oil & Sea Salt organic?

Nature Nate's Popped Sorghum Avocado Oil & Sea Salt is not certified organic in our data.

Has Nature Nate's Popped Sorghum Avocado Oil & Sea Salt been lab tested?

Not this product itself. It shares a base recipe (Organic popped sorghum with oil and seasoning; no cocoa, rice, nut) with the other products in its family, Nature Nate's Popped Sorghum, and 2 products in its family have been lab tested. This product is scored with the worst result for each contaminant across those tests. Those results are in the family's Contaminants section above; its own results may differ.

Does Nature Nate's Popped Sorghum Avocado Oil & Sea Salt contain heavy metals?

Nature Nate's Popped Sorghum Avocado Oil & Sea Salt itself has not been tested for heavy metals, but other products in its family, which share its base recipe, have: a lab detected arsenic at 10 ppb against a 10 ppb limit in Popped Sorghum Extremely Cheezy, cadmium at 45 ppb against a 5 ppb limit in Nature Nate s Popped Sorghum Rosemary and Garlic-5 oz and lead at 6 ppb against a 5 ppb limit in Nature Nate s Popped Sorghum Rosemary and Garlic-5 oz. This product is scored with the worst result for each contaminant across those tests. Its own results may differ.

Full methodology: how we score products.