Panda's own 2024 ingredient document shows 21 of 25 food items contain an industrial seed oil and 23 of 25 carry an additive, with plain steamed rice the only clean item. The food is wok-cooked to order, but the proteins arrive pre-marinated and the wok oil itself is never disclosed.
Panda publishes ingredient statements but makes them hard to find - the only reachable copy is a mirror of their own 2024 "INGREDIENT STATEMENTS" document, so treat this as slightly dated. Of the 25 food items it covers, 21 name an industrial seed oil, usually soybean. Chow Mein is the worst single item: soybean, canola and cottonseed oil plus Yellow 5 and Yellow 6 - and those are the only two dyes on the whole menu, so do not assume dyes are everywhere. 23 of the 25 items carry an additive and the sole clean item is plain Steamed Rice. Caramel color turns up in nine items including the Orange Chicken. The food is genuinely wok-cooked to order from fresh vegetables, but every protein arrives pre-marinated or pre-battered and ten items list only a "proprietary sauce" Panda declines to break down. Notably the document never discloses the wok or fryer oil at all, so the actual frying medium is unverified.