Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Frozen Potato Wedges Prices
Frozen potato wedges prices reflect raw potatoes plus cutting, coating, oil, energy, packaging, plant capacity, freight, and commercial terms. MassGain normalizes matched SKUs to delivered usable cost and connects case price with breakage and cooking yield so buyers can compare suppliers on true serving economics.
Market Data
How to read this market
Frozen-potato-wedge-price data benchmarks matched finished products by cut, skin treatment, seasoning, coating, case weight, processor, plant, contract, freight, and destination. The market object is the delivered wedge product rather than the raw potato input alone.
Use the data to decompose quotes into raw potatoes, conversion, oil, seasoning, packaging, capacity, freight, and commercial terms. Normalize cases to usable weight or servings and compare product performance such as breakage and cooking yield where it affects buyer economics.
Data Module
Frozen Potato Wedges Prices
Market objectmatched frozen wedge offer
Primary measuredelivered usable price
Key dimensionscut, coating, pack, plant
Commercial usesupplier and contract benchmarking
Cost contextraw, oil, conversion, packaging, freight
Compare withserving yield and alternate products
Analysis
Why this matters
Frozen wedge prices can move differently from raw-potato benchmarks when coating capacity, oil, packaging, or short production runs are the binding cost. A commodity explanation may support only part of a supplier increase.
Commercial interpretation should compare usable serving economics. A lower case price can lose its advantage if breakage, coating weight, or cooking loss reduces the product delivered to the customer.
Signal 01
Usable Crop Uncertainty Index
UCUI translates crop and market complexity into a simple uncertainty signal. Higher readings indicate greater uncertainty—not necessarily higher prices.
Understand uncertainty. Anticipate risk. Act earlier.
UCUI is designed to analyze potato-industry publications and data signals across regions, varieties, weather, disease, storage, supply, and demand.
WeatherHigh
DiseaseHigh
StorageMedium
SupplyMedium
Single-day snapshot based on a scan of 11,500+ web and social signals. Get historical and real-time data by clicking the button below.
The MassGain Daily
Today’s market analysis.
A daily editorial synthesis of physical potato data, crop signals, market reporting, and what participants should watch next.
September 16, 2026Latest MassGain publication
Potato market steady for now; Russia’s smaller crop is the salient risk
Spot prices are flat and USDA terminal reports read ‘market steady,’ but a renewed forecast for a smaller Russian harvest and recent regional harvest stress leave seasonal import timing and storage losses as the key uncertainty.
Signal 02
MassGain Potato Index
Independent physical-pricing intelligence and market-trend analysis for procurement, forecasting, contracting, and scenario planning.
Core Russet Carton Median
312.45 USD/MT
Latest qualifying physical-market observation
+4.75 (+1.55%)
Price discovery for the physical potato market
MPI is designed to track physical pricing data, price trends, deltas, and divergences across regions and potato types.
Series window45 days
Current public coverageCore russet cartons
Primary source basisQualifying USDA physical rows
UnitUSD per metric tonne
Single-day snapshot based on most recent 45 days worth of data. Limited to US Russets only. Get more complete, global data about all varieties by clicking the button below.
Signal 03
MassGain Spot Reference
An independent spot reference designed for price discovery, contract discussions, procurement comparisons, and risk modeling.
Russet Burbank — U.S. Midsize
305 USD/MT
Demonstration reference format
+1.6% WoW · Confidence: High
A trusted benchmark for pricing, contracts, and risk
MSR is intended to use real transactions and verifiable physical-market data to support negotiations, price checks, contracting, and risk models.
ProductRusset Burbank
SpecificationU.S. midsize, 40–70 count
Reference typePhysical spot benchmark
StatusIn development
Based on most recent 45 days worth of data. Limited to US Russets only. Get more complete, global data about all varities by clicking the button below. Full access also includes historical data -- including depreciated NYMEX/CBOE/EEX spot references -- projections, trends, and AI-driven insights.
The MassGain Product Ladder
From insight to intelligence to action
Four integrated products built for the physical potato market, delivered through public pages, reports, exports, dashboards, and API access.
1
Content
Original research, commentary, aggregated news, and market updates.
- What matters right now?
- What is happening out there?
2
UCUI™
Usable Crop Uncertainty Index: an AI-powered signal of crop risk and market uncertainty.
- Understand uncertainty
- Anticipate risk
- Act earlier
3
MPI™
MassGain Potato Index: independent physical-pricing intelligence and trend analysis.
- Price discovery
- Regional trends
- Procurement planning
4
MSR™
MassGain Spot Reference: an independent benchmark for price discovery and risk modeling.
- Contracts
- Negotiations
- Risk models
Content + UCUI + MPI + MSR + API access
Get historical series, regional detail, constituent data, exports, alerts, and direct data access.
Overview
Who is this for?
This page is for frozen-potato processors, category managers, finance teams, and commercial planners that need a defensible view of frozen potato wedges prices. Wedge pricing depends on more than raw potato cost: cut size, skin-on or peeled format, seasoning, coating, oil, pack configuration, plant location, run length, capacity utilization, freight, and customer-specific service all influence the delivered case price.
MassGain connects supplier quotes and invoice history with regional potato benchmarks, processor capacity, oil and energy costs, packaging, freight, and product specifications. Processors can separate market-wide input pressure from a premium caused by a short production run or specialized coating. Procurement can normalize cases into a common weight and delivered basis, while finance can model cost changes by plant, customer, and contract reset date. The platform also helps determine whether a lower-priced wedge creates hidden waste, breakage, cooking loss, or menu inconsistency.
MassGain does not provide executable supplier quotes or prescribe pricing. It provides a transparent benchmarking framework that shows what is included, which external drivers support movement, and how product performance affects usable cost.
Use Case
A foodservice supplier receives two wedge offers: a standard skin-on product and a lower-priced heavily coated alternative. MassGain normalizes net weight, freight, oil exposure, case yield, cooking loss, and customer specifications. The lower invoice price creates fewer usable portions, so procurement selects the standard product for core accounts and reserves the alternative for a promotion where the coating is desired.
FAQs
What drives frozen potato wedges prices?
Raw potatoes, cut and coating, oil, energy, packaging, plant capacity, freight, and contract terms all contribute.
Why compare price per usable serving?
Case weight alone can miss breakage, cooking loss, portion yield, and product-performance differences.
How does MassGain benchmark wedge offers?
It aligns product specifications and delivery terms, then connects quotes with potato, processing, packaging, and logistics evidence.
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Data and Methodology
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