{"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":"Starbucks","country":"QA","slug":"starbucks","grade":"A","risk":"Low Risk","avg_pufa_per_item":1.613,"menu_items_scored":74,"cooking_oil":"no deep frying; Starbucks Qatar (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/qa/chains/starbucks"},{"chain":"Tim Hortons","country":"QA","slug":"tim-hortons","grade":"A","risk":"Low Risk","avg_pufa_per_item":1.976,"menu_items_scored":72,"cooking_oil":"not stated for Qatar (Apparel Group franchise; timhortonsgcc.com prints no ingredient or oil information and its Qatar menu PDF is an image). Donuts and Timbits taken as palm-shortening fried, the brand's own frying fat in every market that discloses it; wraps, croissants and muffins carry an unspecified vegetable oil (estimate).","seed_oil_free_verified":false,"report_card":"https://seedoiltracker.com/qa/chains/tim-hortons"},{"chain":"McDonald's","country":"QA","slug":"mcdonald-s","grade":"A","risk":"Low Risk","avg_pufa_per_item":3.267,"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/qa/chains/mcdonald-s"},{"chain":"Hardee's","country":"QA","slug":"hardee-s","grade":"C","risk":"High Risk","avg_pufa_per_item":6.437,"menu_items_scored":47,"cooking_oil":"not disclosed for Qatar (qatar.hardees.me, run by Americana Restaurants, is geo-blocked outside the GCC - HTTP 403 to curl on 2026-10-03 - and the chain's Qatar 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/qa/chains/hardee-s"},{"chain":"Burger King","country":"QA","slug":"burger-king","grade":"D","risk":"Very High Risk","avg_pufa_per_item":8.147,"menu_items_scored":69,"cooking_oil":"not disclosed for Qatar: Burger King Qatar 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/qa/chains/burger-king"},{"chain":"Pizza Hut","country":"QA","slug":"pizza-hut","grade":"D","risk":"Very High Risk","avg_pufa_per_item":8.84,"menu_items_scored":64,"cooking_oil":"not disclosed for Qatar: qatar.pizzahut.me prints no nutrition, ingredient or oil statement. Pan crusts carry pan oil, boneless wings and cheesy pops are taken as fried in an unspecified vegetable oil (soy/sunflower type), the higher-PUFA reading; traditional wings are 'baked'. Evidence-labelled guess.","seed_oil_free_verified":false,"report_card":"https://seedoiltracker.com/qa/chains/pizza-hut"},{"chain":"KFC","country":"QA","slug":"kfc","grade":"F","risk":"Extreme Risk","avg_pufa_per_item":21.959,"menu_items_scored":61,"cooking_oil":"not disclosed for Qatar (qatar.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/qa/chains/kfc"}]}