What oil does Erewhon fry in?
Erewhon cooks with Organic Fera fruit oil (a palm fruit oil) in the fryers; olive oil and avocado oil for other cooking. Erewhon's own ingredient statements in its order app say its fried items are "flash-fried in organic Fera Fruit oil" (taquitos, buffalo cauliflower, turmeric chicken tenders, tofu stix, hash browns and breakfast-burrito potatoes, crispy-rice sushi; erewhon.com product records, read 2026-10-21), and a 2026-10-15 release from the oil's maker, Zero Acre Farms, quoting Erewhon's CEO, says all 15 stores switched their frying to it from avocado oil while keeping olive oil and avocado oil for other cooking and select dressings (prweb.com, read 2026-10-21). Zero Acre describes Fera as an organic oleifera x guineensis palm fruit oil, about 11% polyunsaturated, 58% monounsaturated and 31% saturated (erewhon.zeroacre.com, read 2026-10-21), so fried items are scored as palm oil. The house-made mayonnaise in the salads, sandwiches, wraps and sushi is made with non-GMO avocado oil, and no canola, soybean, sunflower or safflower oil appears in any printed ingredient line; some older item descriptions still say avocado or rice bran oil for fried items, and the sushi counter's poke nachos and one sushi box still list avocado oil. Erewhon prints no nutrition facts for any prepared food, so every value for this restaurant is an estimate: a typical portion (about 5 to 6 oz for food sold by the pound) and the oils, nuts, seeds, dairy, eggs, meat and fish its ingredient lines name. Milk drinks are scored with whole milk; fats Erewhon does not name are scored on the high side: the oil in the challah, graham crust, sesame sticks and house granola as an unnamed vegetable oil, and the vegan butter as a typical plant-butter blend..
The 5 cleanest things to order at Erewhon
Learn this once: a salad with grilled protein and the dressing left off is nearly always the lowest seed oil order anywhere. So the list below sticks to real meals, salads included, never just a water.
| Item | PUFA |
|---|---|
| Roasted Red Beets (Prepack) | 0.1g |
| Ginger Rise | 0.1g |
| Bone Broth | 0.1g |
| Cortado | 0.1g |
| Coco-Lime Purple Cabbage | 0.2g |
Lower PUFA is cleaner. These are estimates from published nutrition data and disclosed oils; preparation varies by location.
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Build my orderWhy the frying oil matters
Most fast-food chains fry in seed oils like soybean, canola, corn, or a blend of them, which are high in polyunsaturated fat (PUFA). A handful still use beef tallow or other stable fats, which are far lower in PUFA. The oil a kitchen fries in is the single biggest driver of how much seed oil ends up on your plate. See the full breakdown on the Erewhon report card, or where it lands on the Seed Oil Index.
Frequently asked
Does Erewhon use beef tallow?
No. Erewhon cooks with Organic Fera fruit oil (a palm fruit oil) in the fryers; olive oil and avocado oil for other cooking. Erewhon's own ingredient statements in its order app say its fried items are "flash-fried in organic Fera Fruit oil" (taquitos, buffalo cauliflower, turmeric chicken tenders, tofu stix, hash browns and breakfast-burrito potatoes, crispy-rice sushi; erewhon.com product records, read 2026-10-21), and a 2026-10-15 release from the oil's maker, Zero Acre Farms, quoting Erewhon's CEO, says all 15 stores switched their frying to it from avocado oil while keeping olive oil and avocado oil for other cooking and select dressings (prweb.com, read 2026-10-21). Zero Acre describes Fera as an organic oleifera x guineensis palm fruit oil, about 11% polyunsaturated, 58% monounsaturated and 31% saturated (erewhon.zeroacre.com, read 2026-10-21), so fried items are scored as palm oil. The house-made mayonnaise in the salads, sandwiches, wraps and sushi is made with non-GMO avocado oil, and no canola, soybean, sunflower or safflower oil appears in any printed ingredient line; some older item descriptions still say avocado or rice bran oil for fried items, and the sushi counter's poke nachos and one sushi box still list avocado oil. Erewhon prints no nutrition facts for any prepared food, so every value for this restaurant is an estimate: a typical portion (about 5 to 6 oz for food sold by the pound) and the oils, nuts, seeds, dairy, eggs, meat and fish its ingredient lines name. Milk drinks are scored with whole milk; fats Erewhon does not name are scored on the high side: the oil in the challah, graham crust, sesame sticks and house granola as an unnamed vegetable oil, and the vegan butter as a typical plant-butter blend., not beef tallow. See which chains fry in real fats on Tallow Watch.