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Is It Seed Oil? · Fried Calamari

Is Fried Calamari made with seed oils?

Usually seed oils

Usually fried in seed oils

Calamari is almost always flash-fried in soybean, canola, or a blended frying oil at restaurants. A typical appetizer order runs about 9g of seed oil PUFA.

How to keep it seed-oil-free

Ask if the kitchen has a dedicated clean fryer, or dredge and fry squid rings at home in avocado oil.

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Cleanest chains for this kind of food

Kura Sushi (1.2g avg) The Melting Pot (2.0g avg) Angry Crab Shack (3.2g avg) Pokeworks (3.2g avg)

Ranked by average seed oil (PUFA) per item in this category, from the live dataset. Full rankings.

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