{"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":10,"chains":[{"chain":"Vitaminas","country":"PT","slug":"vitaminas","grade":"A","risk":"Low Risk","avg_pufa_per_item":3.048,"menu_items_scored":38,"cooking_oil":"not disclosed: Vitaminas (Plateform group) publishes no oil, ingredient or nutrition information; nothing is deep fried on the menu (salads, sandwiches, wraps, soups). Dressing (\"molho\") oil assumed unnamed vegetable oil or olive oil; estimates only","seed_oil_free_verified":false,"report_card":"https://seedoiltracker.com/pt/chains/vitaminas"},{"chain":"McDonald's","country":"PT","slug":"mcdonald-s","grade":"A","risk":"Low Risk","avg_pufa_per_item":3.352,"menu_items_scored":176,"cooking_oil":"100% vegetable oil of rapeseed (colza) and sunflower (girassol) in the restaurant fryers: McDonald's Portugal's own quality leaflet 'A nossa comida' (2023): 'Utilizamos nos nossos restaurantes oleo 100% vegetal, de colza e girassol'; bun, sauce and bakery fats not disclosed (ordinary sunflower used as the stand-in, higher-PUFA rule)","seed_oil_free_verified":false,"report_card":"https://seedoiltracker.com/pt/chains/mcdonald-s"},{"chain":"Pizza Hut","country":"PT","slug":"pizza-hut","grade":"A","risk":"Low Risk","avg_pufa_per_item":3.403,"menu_items_scored":188,"cooking_oil":"not named: Pizza Hut Portugal (Ibersol) says olive oil is a pillar of its cooking ('O azeite e um dos pilares da dieta mediterranica e da culinaria da Pizza Hut', vivabem.pt/marcas/pizza_hut) but names no pan or fryer oil; ordinary sunflower is modelled for the plant-oil share (higher-PUFA rule), evidence-labelled guess","seed_oil_free_verified":false,"report_card":"https://seedoiltracker.com/pt/chains/pizza-hut"},{"chain":"Starbucks","country":"PT","slug":"starbucks","grade":"A","risk":"Low Risk","avg_pufa_per_item":3.416,"menu_items_scored":173,"cooking_oil":"no deep frying; Starbucks Coffee Portugal (Grupo Vips licensee) names no oil in its nutrition report or allergen tool. The packaged chips are fried in olive oil per their own name (Batatas Fritas com azeite); croissants and laminated pastry are butter-type fats per the printed saturates; other bakery and sandwich fats unnamed (estimate: unspecified vegetable oil plus butter/dairy/meat fat). Drink fat is dairy milk fat","seed_oil_free_verified":false,"report_card":"https://seedoiltracker.com/pt/chains/starbucks"},{"chain":"Telepizza","country":"PT","slug":"telepizza","grade":"A","risk":"Low Risk","avg_pufa_per_item":3.495,"menu_items_scored":62,"cooking_oil":"not disclosed: Telepizza Portugal bakes its pizzas and starters and its nutrition sheet names no oil; the plant-fat share is estimated as ordinary sunflower (the usual Portuguese catering oil; higher-PUFA rule) - evidence-labelled guess","seed_oil_free_verified":false,"report_card":"https://seedoiltracker.com/pt/chains/telepizza"},{"chain":"H3","country":"PT","slug":"h3","grade":"A","risk":"Low Risk","avg_pufa_per_item":3.693,"menu_items_scored":33,"cooking_oil":"not disclosed: H3 names no frying or cooking oil on h3.com (nutrition pages, allergen tables, ementa). Burgers are grilled 200 g beef patties; fries print 31-32% saturated fat, read as a vegetable-oil blend with palm (estimate); the Mediterraneo dressing is the chain-stated extra-virgin olive oil; the chocolate cake is butter and chocolate per the chain recipe","seed_oil_free_verified":false,"report_card":"https://seedoiltracker.com/pt/chains/h3"},{"chain":"Pans & Company","country":"PT","slug":"pans-company","grade":"B","risk":"Medium Risk","avg_pufa_per_item":4.475,"menu_items_scored":240,"cooking_oil":"not disclosed for Portugal: the chain names no frying oil (nutrition and allergen tables, pans.pt, vivabem.pt are silent); fries print 23% saturated fat, which reads as a seed-oil/palm blend, filed as unnamed vegetable oil plus palm. Dressings and seasonings are olive-oil based per the chain (vivabem.pt: \"Na Pans utilizamos azeite\")","seed_oil_free_verified":false,"report_card":"https://seedoiltracker.com/pt/chains/pans-company"},{"chain":"A Padaria Portuguesa","country":"PT","slug":"a-padaria-portuguesa","grade":"B","risk":"Medium Risk","avg_pufa_per_item":5.385,"menu_items_scored":202,"cooking_oil":"not disclosed: A Padaria Portuguesa names no frying oil or fat on its site (the nutrition and allergen pages list allergens only). Fried items (batatas fritas, salgados, bolas de berlim) estimated as unnamed vegetable oil (Portuguese bakery fryers commonly use sunflower or blended vegetable oil); laminated pastry and cakes carry butter-type saturated fat per the printed saturates","seed_oil_free_verified":false,"report_card":"https://seedoiltracker.com/pt/chains/a-padaria-portuguesa"},{"chain":"Burger King","country":"PT","slug":"burger-king","grade":"C","risk":"High Risk","avg_pufa_per_item":7.295,"menu_items_scored":183,"cooking_oil":"not named for Portugal: one shared '100% vegetal' fry oil (Burger King's Portuguese page on vivabem.pt; the Spain+Portugal allergen leaflet A3_ALERGENOS_PORT_NOV2025 says all fried products share one oil). The Iberian operator told the Spanish press (merca2.es, 2018) it uses high-oleic sunflower, but no Portuguese source says so; ordinary sunflower is modelled (higher-PUFA rule), evidence-labelled guess","seed_oil_free_verified":false,"report_card":"https://seedoiltracker.com/pt/chains/burger-king"},{"chain":"KFC","country":"PT","slug":"kfc","grade":"D","risk":"Very High Risk","avg_pufa_per_item":9.367,"menu_items_scored":191,"cooking_oil":"100% vegetable oil, stated by the operator to be 'rico em gorduras polinsaturados' (rich in polyunsaturated fat) and free of trans fat (Ibersol's KFC page on vivabem.pt, which kfc.pt links for nutrition); the oil species is not named, ordinary sunflower is modelled","seed_oil_free_verified":false,"report_card":"https://seedoiltracker.com/pt/chains/kfc"}]}