{"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":8,"chains":[{"chain":"Starbucks","country":"KZ","slug":"starbucks","grade":"A","risk":"Low Risk","avg_pufa_per_item":1.022,"menu_items_scored":175,"cooking_oil":"No fryer. Starbucks Kazakhstan's own product table (Shaya Kazakhstan LLP, approved 07.09.2026) lists refined sunflower oil and sunflower-oil mayonnaise in most sandwiches, butter in the croissants, a palm/sunflower margarine in the cheese croissant, palm/coconut fats in the donut and a lauric-type fat in the tiramisu cream","seed_oil_free_verified":false,"report_card":"https://seedoiltracker.com/kz/chains/starbucks"},{"chain":"I'm","country":"KZ","slug":"i-m","grade":"A","risk":"Low Risk","avg_pufa_per_item":3.25,"menu_items_scored":189,"cooking_oil":"not named by the chain (im.kz quality and food-safety pages and the nutrition calculator give no frying oil); the chain's own calculator prints French Fries at 12 g fat with 1 g saturated (8%), which fits sunflower or rapeseed oil and rules out palm; best evidence-labelled guess: sunflower oil","seed_oil_free_verified":false,"report_card":"https://seedoiltracker.com/kz/chains/i-m"},{"chain":"Gippo","country":"KZ","slug":"gippo","grade":"A","risk":"Low Risk","avg_pufa_per_item":3.342,"menu_items_scored":54,"cooking_oil":"Vegetable oil (unspecified) in the fryer: the chain's own fries page says 'Обжаренные в растительном масле' and lists 'картофель, растительное масло, соль'; nuggets 'обжаренной в масле'. In Kazakhstan unspecified vegetable frying oil is usually sunflower, so fried items are scored as sunflower (low confidence)","seed_oil_free_verified":false,"report_card":"https://seedoiltracker.com/kz/chains/gippo"},{"chain":"Burger King","country":"KZ","slug":"burger-king","grade":"C","risk":"High Risk","avg_pufa_per_item":7.168,"menu_items_scored":58,"cooking_oil":"not published for Kazakhstan (burgerking.kz shows only a maintenance page); best evidence-labelled guess: sunflower oil, the usual frying oil in the region (unconfirmed)","seed_oil_free_verified":false,"report_card":"https://seedoiltracker.com/kz/chains/burger-king"},{"chain":"Salam Bro","country":"KZ","slug":"salam-bro","grade":"C","risk":"High Risk","avg_pufa_per_item":7.223,"menu_items_scored":26,"cooking_oil":"not published (the chain has no website, only an Instagram account and an ordering app); best evidence-labelled guess: sunflower oil, the standard frying and mayonnaise oil in Kazakhstan (unconfirmed)","seed_oil_free_verified":false,"report_card":"https://seedoiltracker.com/kz/chains/salam-bro"},{"chain":"Hardee's","country":"KZ","slug":"hardee-s","grade":"D","risk":"Very High Risk","avg_pufa_per_item":8.814,"menu_items_scored":54,"cooking_oil":"chain-stated in its own ingredient sheet: fryer oil 'Масло растительное - смесь Вегафрай: масла растительные рафинированные дезодорированные: подсолнечное, рапсовое' (Vegafry blend of refined sunflower and rapeseed oils); frozen fries are pre-fried in sunflower oil; mayo and sauces are sunflower-oil based. Blend ratio not stated","seed_oil_free_verified":false,"report_card":"https://seedoiltracker.com/kz/chains/hardee-s"},{"chain":"Papa John's","country":"KZ","slug":"papa-john-s","grade":"D","risk":"Very High Risk","avg_pufa_per_item":10.922,"menu_items_scored":196,"cooking_oil":"Not published for Kazakhstan. Best guess: sunflower oil (the country's standard frying and mayonnaise oil) in the fryer for fries, wedges, donuts and syrniki, and in the garlic/ranch dips; the only oil named on papajohns.kz is sunflower oil around the anchovy topping","seed_oil_free_verified":false,"report_card":"https://seedoiltracker.com/kz/chains/papa-john-s"},{"chain":"KFC","country":"KZ","slug":"kfc","grade":"F","risk":"Extreme Risk","avg_pufa_per_item":13.99,"menu_items_scored":90,"cooking_oil":"not named by the chain for Kazakhstan: the kfc.kz '11 ingredients' page only says fryer-oil acidity is checked twice a day and the oil is replaced when over the limit. The chain's own Original Strips panel prints 42% saturated + 13% trans, the same profile KFC Georgia and KFC Armenia print. Scored as an undisclosed vegetable frying oil (vegetable_oil_unspecified, the house precedent, higher-PUFA reading); chicken rows sit at the strips panel's own fat-minus-saturated-minus-trans ceiling, the most that panel allows. Lead normalization 2026-10-09: fries and hash brown raised from the strips' palm-like density to the vegetable-oil density of KFC Georgia's own fried-potato panel.","seed_oil_free_verified":false,"report_card":"https://seedoiltracker.com/kz/chains/kfc"}]}