{"name":"Seed Oil Tracker — Restaurant Chain Seed-Oil Grades","license":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Seed Oil Tracker (seedoiltracker.com)","source":"https://seedoiltracker.com/open-data","chain_count":7,"chains":[{"chain":"Nando's","country":"BW","slug":"nando-s","grade":"C","risk":"High Risk","avg_pufa_per_item":7.498,"menu_items_scored":121,"cooking_oil":"not stated by Nando's Botswana (nandos.co.bw ordering site and its menu API name no oil). Its own panels print poly-unsaturated fat at about half of the fat in the chips and wedges (10 g fat, 2 sat, 3 mono, 5 poly per 100 g) and 75% in the coleslaw, a seed-oil (sunflower-type) profile; chicken is flame-grilled, not fried, and basted with PERi-PERi sauce. Unpanelled items are scored as an unspecified vegetable oil.","seed_oil_free_verified":false,"report_card":"https://seedoiltracker.com/bw/chains/nando-s"},{"chain":"Debonairs Pizza","country":"BW","slug":"debonairs-pizza","grade":"D","risk":"Very High Risk","avg_pufa_per_item":8.402,"menu_items_scored":116,"cooking_oil":"not disclosed: Debonairs Pizza Botswana publishes no oil, ingredient or nutrition statement (app.debonairspizza.co.bw ordering app and item detail checked 2026-10-09; the South African nutritional guide names no country but South Africa and is not used). Pizzas are oven-baked; fat is mostly cheese, cream-cheese filling and meats plus undisclosed vegetable oil in the dough and sauces; wings, nuggets and chicken shots scored as an unspecified vegetable frying oil (vegetable_oil_unspecified), calibrated to the Debonairs Pizza NG estimate levels.","seed_oil_free_verified":false,"report_card":"https://seedoiltracker.com/bw/chains/debonairs-pizza"},{"chain":"Steers","country":"BW","slug":"steers","grade":"D","risk":"Very High Risk","avg_pufa_per_item":10.567,"menu_items_scored":82,"cooking_oil":"not stated by Steers Botswana (the botswana.steers.africa nutritional guide and menu name no frying oil); burgers, chicken and ribs are flame-grilled, hand-cut chips are deep-fried in an undisclosed oil, modelled as unspecified vegetable oil, confidence low","seed_oil_free_verified":false,"report_card":"https://seedoiltracker.com/bw/chains/steers"},{"chain":"Wimpy","country":"BW","slug":"wimpy","grade":"F","risk":"Extreme Risk","avg_pufa_per_item":12.576,"menu_items_scored":105,"cooking_oil":"not stated by Wimpy Botswana (botswana.wimpy.africa menu and allergen pages name no frying oil); modelled as an unnamed vegetable oil","seed_oil_free_verified":false,"report_card":"https://seedoiltracker.com/bw/chains/wimpy"},{"chain":"Chicken Licken","country":"BW","slug":"chicken-licken","grade":"F","risk":"Extreme Risk","avg_pufa_per_item":17.485,"menu_items_scored":68,"cooking_oil":"not disclosed: Chicken Licken publishes no ingredient, oil or nutrition statement on its site (chickenlicken.co.za, the chain's only site, which also serves its Botswana stores; checked 2026-10-09). Fried chicken, Hotwings, SoulBites and Soul Fries are scored as an unspecified vegetable frying oil (vegetable_oil_unspecified), calibrated to the KFC KE/NG undisclosed-oil levels (about 6.5 g per fried piece, 7 g per regular fries).","seed_oil_free_verified":false,"report_card":"https://seedoiltracker.com/bw/chains/chicken-licken"},{"chain":"KFC","country":"BW","slug":"kfc","grade":"F","risk":"Extreme Risk","avg_pufa_per_item":20.32,"menu_items_scored":127,"cooking_oil":"not disclosed for Botswana: KFC Botswana (kfcbotswana.com) publishes no frying-oil statement and no nutrition or allergen guide; its ordering menu carries no nutrition fields (checked 2026-10-09). KFC South Africa states palmolein, but its guide does not name Botswana and is not used; items are scored as an undisclosed vegetable frying oil (vegetable_oil_unspecified, the higher-PUFA reading), at the same levels as KFC KE/NG (about 6.5 g per fried piece, 8 g per regular chips). If the chain confirms palm olein, fried-item PUFA would fall by roughly 80%.","seed_oil_free_verified":false,"report_card":"https://seedoiltracker.com/bw/chains/kfc"},{"chain":"Hungry Lion","country":"BW","slug":"hungry-lion","grade":"F","risk":"Extreme Risk","avg_pufa_per_item":21.359,"menu_items_scored":67,"cooking_oil":"not disclosed: Hungry Lion Botswana publishes no frying-oil, ingredient or nutrition statement (hungrylion.co.bw menu pages, its downloadable menu PDFs and the app.hungrylion.co.bw ordering API checked 2026-10-09). Fried chicken, winglets, fingers and chips are scored as an unspecified vegetable frying oil (vegetable_oil_unspecified), calibrated to the KFC KE/NG undisclosed-oil levels (about 6.5 g per fried piece, 7 g per regular chips). If the chain uses palm olein, fried-item PUFA would be far lower.","seed_oil_free_verified":false,"report_card":"https://seedoiltracker.com/bw/chains/hungry-lion"}]}