gimMe Organic Roasted Seaweed Snacks Sea Salt

One serving carries about 3.8 times California's Prop 65 no-significant-risk level for acrylamide (0.2 mcg per day), the threshold Consumer Reports applied at a serving a day. Acrylamide forms whenever starchy food is fried, baked or roasted. At 153 ppb the concentration is high, but the serving is 5 g, so a package carries less than most chips in the test (Lay's Classic 7.37 mcg).

Consumer Reports' August 2026 kids' snacks test (acrylamide by LC-MS/MS, J. Agric. Food Chem. 54:7001 (2006)) on three gimMe Roasted Seaweed Snacks, Sea Salt samples from two to three lots: 153 ppb, which is 0.76 mcg in the 5 g (one 5 g package) serving. CR's reference values: OEHHA NSRL 0.2 mcg/day, MADL 140 mcg/day, EPA reference dose 2 mcg/kg body weight/day.

Glycidyl esters form when vegetable oils are refined at high heat and turn into glycidol in the gut — a probable human carcinogen with no safe intake set by EFSA. One serving is about 1.4 times California's no-significant-risk level for glycidol (0.54 mcg per day), the reference CR applied. At 153 ppb this was the highest glycidyl ester concentration of the 14 snacks CR tested; the 5 g serving keeps the amount per package below the chips (Takis Fuego 3.41 mcg).

Consumer Reports' August 2026 kids' snacks test (glycidyl esters by GC-MS/MS, AOAC 2018.03) on three gimMe Roasted Seaweed Snacks, Sea Salt samples from two to three lots: 153 ppb, which is 0.77 mcg per 5 g serving. CR's reference value: OEHHA NSRL for glycidol 0.54 mcg/day. The EU caps GE in retail vegetable oils at 1,000 µg/kg as glycidol; the U.S. has no limit.

3-MCPD is a by-product of refining vegetable oil at high heat. EFSA's tolerable daily intake is 2 mcg per kg of body weight — about 46 mcg a day for a 23 kg child — so one serving is about 2% of that. Takis Fuego had the highest 3-MCPD of the chips and crackers CR tested (160 ppb).

Consumer Reports' August 2026 kids' snacks test (3-MCPD by GC-MS/MS, AOAC 2018.03) on three gimMe Roasted Seaweed Snacks, Sea Salt samples from two to three lots: 207 ppb, which is 1.03 mcg per 5 g serving. Reference: EFSA tolerable daily intake 2 mcg/kg body weight/day (2018).

Detected — one serving is about 56% of California's Prop 65 maximum allowable dose for lead (0.5 mcg per day). No level of lead is considered beneficial, and children are the most sensitive group. This was the second highest lead per serving of the 21 snacks CR tested.

Consumer Reports' August 2026 kids' snacks test (lead by ICP-QQQ-MS, AOAC 2015.01) on three gimMe Roasted Seaweed Snacks, Sea Salt samples from two to three lots: 56.5 ppb, which is 0.28 mcg per 5 g serving, against the OEHHA MADL of 0.5 mcg/day.

One serving is about 1.1 times California's Prop 65 maximum allowable dose for cadmium (4.1 mcg per day). This was the highest cadmium per serving of all 21 snacks CR tested. Seaweed concentrates cadmium from seawater.

Consumer Reports' August 2026 kids' snacks test (cadmium by ICP-QQQ-MS, AOAC 2015.01) on three gimMe Roasted Seaweed Snacks, Sea Salt samples from two to three lots: 896 ppb, which is 4.48 mcg per 5 g serving, against the OEHHA MADL of 4.1 mcg/day.

Total arsenic was high enough that CR ran its inorganic-arsenic follow-up, the form that matters for health. One serving is about 0.5% of California's no-significant-risk level for inorganic arsenic (10 mcg per day). Seaweed's arsenic is almost entirely the organic form, which is far less toxic: of 10,567 ppb total, 10.8 ppb was inorganic.

Consumer Reports' August 2026 kids' snacks test (total arsenic by ICP-QQQ-MS, AOAC 2015.01; inorganic arsenic by speciation) on three gimMe Roasted Seaweed Snacks, Sea Salt samples from two to three lots: 10567 ppb total and 10.8 ppb inorganic, which is 0.05 mcg of inorganic arsenic per 5 g serving.

Not detected — below the laboratory's method detection limit in every sample.

Consumer Reports' August 2026 kids' snacks test (mercury by ICP-QQQ-MS, AOAC 2015.01) on three gimMe Roasted Seaweed Snacks, Sea Salt samples from two to three lots: not detected in any sample.

DEHP is a plasticiser that migrates from processing equipment and packaging. One serving is about 0.1% of California's Prop 65 maximum allowable dose for DEHP (410 mcg per day) and well under EPA's reference dose. Total phthalates were 765 ng per serving.

Consumer Reports' August 2026 kids' snacks test (phthalates by GC-MS/MS, GB 5009.271-2016 mod.) on three gimMe Roasted Seaweed Snacks, Sea Salt samples from two to three lots: DEHP 80 ppb, which is 400 ng per 5 g serving; total phthalates 765 ng. References: OEHHA MADL 410 mcg/day, NSRL 310 mcg/day, EPA reference dose 20 mcg/kg body weight/day.