{"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":6,"chains":[{"chain":"Starbucks","country":"KW","slug":"starbucks","grade":"A","risk":"Low Risk","avg_pufa_per_item":1.607,"menu_items_scored":84,"cooking_oil":"no deep frying; Starbucks Kuwait (Alshaya Group franchise) publishes no ingredient, oil or nutrition statement - its only food document is an allergen data sheet - so bakery and sandwich fats are an unspecified vegetable oil / butter estimate and drink fat is dairy milk fat by default (estimate)","seed_oil_free_verified":false,"report_card":"https://seedoiltracker.com/kw/chains/starbucks"},{"chain":"McDonald's","country":"KW","slug":"mcdonald-s","grade":"A","risk":"Low Risk","avg_pufa_per_item":3.294,"menu_items_scored":85,"cooking_oil":"sunflower and canola oil blend in the fryers at all GCC restaurants (McDonald's GCC statement on its Qatar site, 2017: 'completed the transition of its cooking oil to a sunflower and canola oil blend at all of its 500+ restaurants in the GCC')","seed_oil_free_verified":false,"report_card":"https://seedoiltracker.com/kw/chains/mcdonald-s"},{"chain":"Pizza Hut","country":"KW","slug":"pizza-hut","grade":"C","risk":"High Risk","avg_pufa_per_item":7.511,"menu_items_scored":101,"cooking_oil":"not disclosed for Kuwait: the chain's site (www.kuwait.pizzahut.me, Kout Food Group) and its talabat storefront print no ingredient, oil or fat figures (the site shows calories/allergens only once a store is chosen). Pan crusts carry pan oil; boneless wings, chicken tenders, mozzarella sticks and criss cut fries are taken as fried in an unspecified vegetable oil (soy/sunflower type), the higher-PUFA reading. Evidence-labelled guess.","seed_oil_free_verified":false,"report_card":"https://seedoiltracker.com/kw/chains/pizza-hut"},{"chain":"Hardee's","country":"KW","slug":"hardee-s","grade":"C","risk":"High Risk","avg_pufa_per_item":7.605,"menu_items_scored":67,"cooking_oil":"not disclosed for Kuwait (kuwait.hardees.me, run by Americana Restaurants, is geo-blocked outside the GCC - HTTP 403 to curl on 2026-10-03 - and the chain's Kuwait talabat storefront prints no oil or fat); burgers are chargrilled beef, chicken, tenders, nuggets and fries are fried; scored as an undisclosed vegetable frying oil (sunflower/canola/soy type, about half to 60% of the fryer fat counted as PUFA), the higher-PUFA reading. Evidence-labelled guess.","seed_oil_free_verified":false,"report_card":"https://seedoiltracker.com/kw/chains/hardee-s"},{"chain":"Burger King","country":"KW","slug":"burger-king","grade":"C","risk":"High Risk","avg_pufa_per_item":7.797,"menu_items_scored":74,"cooking_oil":"not disclosed for Kuwait: Burger King Kuwait has no reachable website of its own (burgerking.com.kw / burgerking.qa do not resolve, 2026-10-03; no Sanity menu dataset for the country) and its talabat storefront prints no oil or fat. Flame-grilled patties carry little added oil; fries, crispy chicken, tenders, nuggets and onion rings scored as an undisclosed vegetable frying oil (sunflower/canola/soy type, about half to 60% of the fryer fat counted as PUFA), the higher-PUFA reading. Evidence-labelled guess.","seed_oil_free_verified":false,"report_card":"https://seedoiltracker.com/kw/chains/burger-king"},{"chain":"KFC","country":"KW","slug":"kfc","grade":"F","risk":"Extreme Risk","avg_pufa_per_item":24.39,"menu_items_scored":55,"cooking_oil":"not disclosed for Kuwait (kuwait.kfc.me, run by Americana Restaurants, is geo-blocked outside the GCC - Azure Application Gateway 403 to curl on 2026-10-03 - and its archived pages and ordering API print no oil and no fat); fried chicken, strips, popcorn, fries and onion rings scored as an undisclosed vegetable frying oil (sunflower/canola/soy type, about half to 60% of the fryer fat counted as PUFA), the higher-PUFA reading, since nothing the chain publishes rules palm in or out. Evidence-labelled guess.","seed_oil_free_verified":false,"report_card":"https://seedoiltracker.com/kw/chains/kfc"}]}