Chipotle uses seed oils: - Canola oil is used to make the flour tortillas and tacos - Sunflower oil to fry the chips and is in the chicken, fajita veggies, carne asada, and carnitas - Rice bran oil in the steak, sofritas, white rice, barbacoa, both beans, and vinaigrette You can see this on chipotle.com/ingredients. Just click each oil to see which components it's used in.
01/29/2022
Stay away from fried foods, toum, and cookies. Toppings and other sauces use 100% olive oil (the greek vinaigrette hardens when refrigerated). Sautéed foods use olive pomace oil.
01/27/2022
95% of the menu is cooked with or contains sunflower oil as an ingredient. The oil is blended with a little olive oil, so if a team member tells you they use 100% olive oil they aren’t correct.
01/27/2022
No seed oils, ever. Olive oil used for almost everything, eggs cooked in grass-fed butter.
01/26/2022
Oil for fries and chicken is a blend of canola and other seed oils
01/26/2022
Soybean oil for fries and chicken tenders
01/26/2022
Full ingredients are listed for each menu item on their website. The vast majority of recipes are seed oil free. Because I frequent this place, I emailed the owner and politely requested they reconsider using any seed oils.
01/26/2022
Vegetable Oil for foods cooked in 550 degrees and up (realistically all protein)
01/26/2022