The potatoes we use to make our famous chips generally come from Tassie and Victoria and the high-oleic canola oil we use for cooking them is also Australian-grown.
Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) has stopped using palm oil for fast food sold in its Australian outlets, reports ABC News. KFC says the decision came after complaints from customers about its use of palm oil, which at times is linked to deforestation in Southeast Asia.
Kentucky Fried Chicken will begin using low-linolenic soybean oil in their products in place of partially hydrogenated vegetable oil, the chain's parent company, Yum Brands, announced Monday. KFC will make the switch to low-lin oil in its 5,500 U.S. restaurants in order to reduce trans fats in its fried food products.
To ensure the quality and taste of their food, KFC primarily uses vegetable oil for frying, including soybean oil, rapeseed oil, and sunflower oil. In certain locations, KFC may also use canola oil and palm oil as frying alternatives.
Cooked in: canola oil (dimethylpolysiloxane (antifoaming agent), TBHQ. Contains soy, wheat, mustard, sulphites. Canola Oil High oleic low linolenic canola oil, dimethylpolysiloxane, TBHQ.
Once in our kitchens, we cook them in our canola-blend oil so you can have them crispy and hot—just the way you like them. Want to hear more about our fry ingredients? Get the down low on how we flavor our fries.
But the frying oil at KFC is a canola and soybean oil blend, which is not considered “allergenic.” All of their chicken and even their fries contain wheat. Only select sides and the sauces are gluten-free.
All about the fryer
KFC swears by high-temperature, industrial-strength pressure fryers for their extra-crispy skin. While you won't be able to deep fry with your at-home pressure cooker, you can still recreate the KFC crunch with a deep fryer, a Dutch oven, or a heavy-bottomed pot.
The dishes of KFC are mostly deep-fried and are made using tons of oil.
For the moment, it is sustainably sourced according to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), Rainforest Alliance or equivalent. Since the 31st December 2015 all our soy has been responsibly sourced under the Roundtable on Responsible Soy (RTRS), ProTerra or equivalent.
KFC like all fast food places change the deep fryer oil daily ( every 24 hrs or less ) There are different "vats " of oil for different menu items. Example french fries are a different fry oil vat than the chicken. KFC changes the frying oil daily.
Many of them wanted to try the new vegan dish together with the fries which should be vegan as well, but they discovered that the chain cooks the fries in the same oil as the chicken wings.
With some deductive reasoning, KFC's website lists “Chicken Fat” as an ingredient of their gravy making it not suitable for those on a vegetarian or vegan diet. This information is constant with reports that KFC uses gravy powder, water and chicken crackling to make their gravy.
There may be traces of sulphites (less than 10 milligrams per kilogram). Golden Arches fries in Australia are cooked in a canola oil blend of containing canola oil, high oleic canola oil, sunflower oil, and a small amount of palm oil.
For this reason, palm oil produced for McDonald's5 must be certified by the RSPO, which sets out strict criteria to minimize negative impacts to the environment and to communities in palm oil producing regions. In 2021, 100% of our palm oil globally was certified by the RSPO.
Palm oil is used as an ingredient in some of our products but the oil we use in our restaurants for frying is a blend of non-hydrogenated rapeseed and sunflower oil.
While chicken is an obvious Men's Health staple, KFC's reliance on greasy oils and subsequent sky-high calorific content makes Maccy's an unlikely victor. The more varied menu and healthy options, as well as classic, gut-busting fare, make it the ideal spot to play fast and loose with your nutrition plan.
The chicken is amazingly moist — thanks to a special device.
Colonel Sanders' secret here is the use of a pressure fryer, something that can be dangerous without the right equipment and methods. The pressure fryer not only lets KFC cook chicken faster and with less oil, but it also locks in moisture.
After some trial and error, they decided the chicken should be soaked in buttermilk and coated once in the breading mixture, then fried in oil at 350 °F (177 °C) in a pressure fryer until golden brown.
The mustard (plus salt) works the way that buttermilk does, as it's acidic and tenderizes the meat while flavouring it at the same time.
No. Our fries are not coated in any fats or substances from an animal.
Peanuts and tree nuts are not used at KFC. However, peanuts are present in the Reese's® Peanut Butter Pie Slice and the Café Valley Bakery® Chocolate Chip Cake and Lemon Cake may contain traces of tree nuts.
They're cooked in the same oil as some of the chicken fryers, preventing them from being vegan; this is why the KFC vegan meal is only a burger and a drink.