The best sweet potato fries in the frozen section cook up sweet and savory and perfect for those days when you want to eat fried foods but you want them to be orange so you know they’re “healthy.” I love foods that allow me to pretend I’m doing something good for my body—sweet potato fries are in that category. Like, I can just feel how fit and healthy the server thinks I am when I opt for sweet potato fries over regular fries at a restaurant.
One note about making the best frozen sweet potato fries at home: Make sure they’re air fryer sweet potato fries. All the sweet potato fries on this list—from sweet potato waffle fries to thin, crispy sweet potato fries—still taste great when you cook them in the oven, but they crisp up so much better in the air fryer. Just a little tip from someone who made many, many batches of sweet potato fries for two separate taste tests. From seasoned sweet potato fries to crinkle cuts, these are the best sweet potato fries you can find at the grocery store.
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- Checkers Rally’s Sweet Potatoes Seasoned Fries
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No one liked these frozen sweet potato fries quite as much as I did, but you should still believe me: They’re good. What other tasters didn’t love that I did is that these are soooo thin. Shoestring thin. And I think that’s fun and unique for sweet potato fries. Yes, they were a little limp (I cooked them in the oven), but they will crisp up great in the air fryer. And, of course, they have that peppery coating that Rally’s/Checkers regular fries have and it works. We tried some other brands of seasoned sweet potato fries that just really didn’t work. If you like Checkers fries and you like sweet potato fries, you’ll like these.
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- Signature Select Classic Sweet Potato Julienne Fries
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These are the best sweet potato fries if you want real, genuine sweet potato flavor. When editor-in-chief Justine Sterling ate one of these, she said, “Yup, tastes like you’re eating a vegetable.” That’s a good thing! Other frozen sweet potato fries we tasted were suspiciously sweet (like, they taste almost mapley) and others were really, really bland. These have such a nice, balanced flavor that really captures the glory of the sweet potato.
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- Ore-Ida Crinkle Cut Sweet Potato Fries
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We tried a few brands of crinkle cut sweet potato fries, but these are the best frozen sweet potato fries by far if you’re into crinkles like I am. They’re sweet without being too sweet and have a bit of a coating that gives them some crunch so they aren’t floppy and weird. The Ore-Ida crinkles perfectly balance sweet and savory. (Oh, and here’s our ranking of the best regular frozen crinkle cut fries if you’re not into sweet potatoes.)
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- Alexia Seasoned Sweet Potato Waffle Fries
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Alexa sweet potato waffle fries are unreal. After our second taste test of the best frozen sweet potato fries, I was super tempted to put these in the number one spot, but I know not everyone likes waffle fries, for a variety of reasons, but mostly because they can be too fat and potatoey to really crisp up. These air fryer sweet potato fries (yeah, I cooked this batch in the air fryer) are not as fat as other waffle fries so they crisp up. I definitely cooked these slightly longer than they were supposed to be cooked, but it was a good strategy. The savory seasoning is absolutely addictive in concert with the sweetness of the potatoes. Such a great combo! If you love to dip your sweet potato fries and want something with a lot of surface area, these are the best sweet potato fries to buy.
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- Sprouts Straight Cut Sweet Potato Fries
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Sprouts Straight Cut sweet potato fries are the best sweet potato fries on this list if you like ‘em crispy-crunchy. These air fryer sweet potato fries are some of the only sweet potato fries I’ve ever had that actually crisp up! They’re very thin, much like shoestring fries. Why aren’t more sweet potato fries like shoestring fries? The less meat, the more crispness you get, especially since Sprouts uses a potato starch coating. If you want big, meaty sweet potato fries, these may not be your jam, but if you want sweet potato fries that don’t flop when you pick ‘em up, these are pretty much unrivaled.
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- Roots Organic Sweet Potato Fries
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When you look at the imagery on a bag of Roots Organic Sweet Potato Fries you’re immediately like, yes, those are going to be the best frozen sweet potato fries—duh. They look homemade—they even have some skin! The bad news is that when you finally open the bag, these frozen sweet potato fries look nothing like the picture on the package (no skin!). The good news is that they’re still really, really good. In fact, they’re the best sweet potato fries we could find. They’re very flavorful and fresh tasting, just like sweet potato fries from a restaurant. They were good in the oven, but they’ll be great in the air fryer. I’ll say it one more time and then I’ll shut up: Frozen sweet potato fries should always be air fryer sweet potato fries!
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Best Seasoned
Best Classic
Best Crinkle Cut
Best Waffle
Best Crispy
Best of the Best
Did you try any of these with maple syrup (not breakfast syrup)? Only way to eat a sweet potato fry imo.
I believe you, Gwynedd, and I am going to hunt these Rally’s sweet potato fries down.
I need a better list that includes a not to thin and still seasoned sweet potato fry!
Would love your fries .