{"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":"MT","slug":"starbucks","grade":"A","risk":"Low Risk","avg_pufa_per_item":0.95,"menu_items_scored":314,"cooking_oil":"no deep frying. The Malta food guide prints each item's ingredients: sunflower oil in the sandwiches, panini, focaccia and wraps; rapeseed oil in the muffins, brownie and bagel; butter in croissants; palm fat in swirls, cookies and filled buns; oat drink (rapeseed oil) in oat drinks","seed_oil_free_verified":false,"report_card":"https://seedoiltracker.com/mt/chains/starbucks"},{"chain":"Costa Coffee","country":"MT","slug":"costa-coffee","grade":"A","risk":"Low Risk","avg_pufa_per_item":1.638,"menu_items_scored":63,"cooking_oil":"no fryers; Costa Malta states no oil. Estimates assume rapeseed/sunflower oil in muffins and cakes, butter in croissants and rapeseed-oil mayonnaise in sandwiches (evidence-labelled guess)","seed_oil_free_verified":false,"report_card":"https://seedoiltracker.com/mt/chains/costa-coffee"},{"chain":"McDonald's","country":"MT","slug":"mcdonald-s","grade":"A","risk":"Low Risk","avg_pufa_per_item":3.072,"menu_items_scored":63,"cooking_oil":"not verified for Malta: mcdonalds.com.mt sits behind a Cloudflare bot check that neither curl, the Browser pane nor Chrome passed. Estimated as the sunflower + rapeseed fryer blend McDonald's uses across its European markets (evidence-labelled guess, not a Malta statement)","seed_oil_free_verified":false,"report_card":"https://seedoiltracker.com/mt/chains/mcdonald-s"},{"chain":"Burger King","country":"MT","slug":"burger-king","grade":"B","risk":"Medium Risk","avg_pufa_per_item":4.136,"menu_items_scored":137,"cooking_oil":"not stated by the chain. Its Malta nutrition sheet prints polyunsaturated fat per item: fried chicken, fish and nuggets carry 40-70% of their fat as polyunsaturated (sunflower-type frying oil), the mayonnaise pod 57%, while the fries carry only ~10% (par-fry fat, high in saturates); the allergen sheet says fried products share one oil","seed_oil_free_verified":false,"report_card":"https://seedoiltracker.com/mt/chains/burger-king"},{"chain":"KFC","country":"MT","slug":"kfc","grade":"C","risk":"High Risk","avg_pufa_per_item":5.993,"menu_items_scored":100,"cooking_oil":"not verified for Malta: kfc.com.mt sits behind a Cloudflare bot check that neither curl nor the Browser pane passed. Estimated as a rapeseed-type fryer oil (evidence-labelled guess, not a Malta statement)","seed_oil_free_verified":false,"report_card":"https://seedoiltracker.com/mt/chains/kfc"},{"chain":"Pizza Hut","country":"MT","slug":"pizza-hut","grade":"F","risk":"Extreme Risk","avg_pufa_per_item":13.109,"menu_items_scored":190,"cooking_oil":"not stated by Pizza Hut Malta (its nutrition sheet and menu name no oil; the sheet prints both \"Baked\" and \"Fried\" versions of the wings, bites, onion rings and poppers). Modelled as unspecified vegetable oil, low confidence","seed_oil_free_verified":false,"report_card":"https://seedoiltracker.com/mt/chains/pizza-hut"}]}