Four categories, weighted. Seed oils count three times as much as plastics or ultra-processing, so a poor seed-oil score pulls the overall number down hardest.
Full methodology: how we score restaurants.
Some dishes use seed oils · No artificial additives · Some plastic contact · Some premade food
They have no artificial additives on their ingredients and get food local sourced, but plastic list found lots of phthalates in their food.
Some dishes use seed oils · No artificial additives · Some plastic contact · Made fresh
They always say no additives, some of their dressings have seed oils, and if you go to plasticlist they have contaminated phthalate food
Some dishes use seed oils · Some artificial additives · Some premade food
Went through sweetgreen's own online nutrition and ingredient guide. Their seed-oil-free push is real but partial: roasted vegetables and proteins are cooked in extra virgin olive oil and avocado oil, and the green goddess ranch is avocado-oil based. But sunflower oil is still in the balsamic vinaigrette, the caesar, the pesto vinaigrette, the hot honey mustard, the miso sesame ginger and the spicy cashew; canola is in the hummus and crispy rice; and the tortilla chips list canola plus possible safflower, sunflower, soybean or cottonseed. Pick your dressing carefully. Otherwise the lists are unusually clean — the only dye on the whole menu was caramel color in the honey BBQ sauce. Two caveats: about 17 items say the ingredient list is not available online and point you to a printed guide in store, and some components (crispy onions, breads, cheeses, chips) are supplier-made. I did not rate plastic contact.
Basically no seed oils or additives
Tallow reviewers check sweetgreen on four things: whether it cooks in seed oils, whether the menu carries artificial additives, whether food touches plastic on the way out, and how much of it arrives premade rather than made in the kitchen. The answers to each are scored below.
Sometimes. sweetgreen scores 58/100 here, so reports are mixed.
Mostly no. sweetgreen scores 88/100 here — reviewers report few or no artificial additives.
Partly — sweetgreen scores 67/100, which is middling. Tallow rates what a kitchen cooks with, not how many calories are on the plate.
Sometimes. sweetgreen scores 65/100 here, so reports are mixed.
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