Purity Coffee PROTECT Light-Medium Roast Single-Serve Pods
CLP-tested health-positioned coffee pod outside the Clean 16, with exact current pod image verified from Purity’s live product page.
Why it ranks
This replaces the Eight O'Clock Original caution entry because the official CLP Clean Sixteen image actually includes Eight O’Clock Original Roast. Purity Coffee PROTECT is a better #3 caution candidate: CLP’s public tested-products list names Purity Coffee — Protect, Light (Pod), but the product does not appear in the Clean Sixteen report. The live Purity page also confirms a single-serve pod format, and CLP reported pods and cans had the highest phthalate levels on average. I still keep this conservative because Purity publishes its own lab-results page and CLP does not publish a full worst-to-best SKU table; the claim is “not independently top-tier in CLP’s public list,” not “proven dirty.”
Highlights
- Exact current product image verified from the Purity Coffee product page
- CLP-tested product name from the published category list
- Useful correction to avoid falsely calling Eight O’Clock Original a caution product when CLP lists it in the Clean Sixteen
- Pod format deserves extra scrutiny because CLP reported higher phthalates in pods and cans on average
Caveats
- Not shown in CLP’s Clean Sixteen report, despite health / purity positioning
- Pod packaging can add plasticizer exposure risk in category-level CLP findings
- Purity’s own lab-results page is useful transparency, but it is not the same as inclusion in CLP’s cleanest public composite tier
- For daily use, favor a Clean Sixteen bagged coffee unless a current batch COA is more compelling
Testing method
CLP — ICP-MS metals + GC-MS phthalates / pesticides + LC-MS glyphosate; exact product-page image verification