A&W publishes full component-level ingredient statements for all 180 items, and they are about as heavy as fast food gets: 95% of items carry a named dye, preservative, emulsifier or titanium dioxide, the fryer runs high oleic canola with an antifoaming agent, and the onion rings still list partially hydrogenated soybean oil. The one genuinely clean thing on the menu is the beef patty, whose entire ingredient statement is the word Beef.
Rated 2026-09-07 from A&W's own nutrition feed. awrestaurants.com/nutrition/ renders nothing to a fetch, but the page's JS names the brand slug and the INM feed gives full component statements for all 180 items. seed_oil=all: soybean 83, canola 83, sunflower 46, corn 5, safflower 3, and the fryer is a named component - "Canola Oil: High Oleic Canola Oil and Dimethylpolysiloxane, an antifoaming agent, added." The onion rings still list partially hydrogenated soybean oil in 2026. swap=unsure, nothing published. additives=all: 171 of 180 items (95%) carry at least one, and the 9 that do not are plain fries, onion rings and kid's milk. Mono- and diglycerides 122, sodium benzoate 90, polysorbate 87, named FD&C dyes 81, HFCS 77, titanium dioxide 13 - including Papa Sauce, on their flagship burger. nova=all: the statements are supplier labels prefixed "Raw French Fries:" and "Raw Cheese Curds:". The only clean components are "Beef Patty: Beef." and the onion. plastics null.