I’ve never bothered with a post for Chick-fil-A. They fry their food in peanut oil, and our kids are anaphylactic to peanuts, so it seemed kind of pointless. Tragically, it appears that they also hold the same opinion about peanut oil that many restaurants hold about soybean oil, namely that the presence of soybean oil doesn’t indicate that there is soy in the food.
Chick-fil-A uses 100% refined peanut oil for all of our breaded chicken. According to the FDA, highly refined oils such as soybean and peanut oil are not considered allergenic, and therefore are not labeled as such.
Regardless of whether there’s peanuts in the food, Chik-fil-A’s menu is full of soy. The few items that are listed as not containing soy are items that are likely to have soybean oil, and since they don’t list any item fried in peanut oil as containing peanuts, I’m going to guess that they contain soybean oil. So tragically, I’d say that makes Chik-fil-A a big old double “No”. Source: https://media.chick-fil-a.com/Media/PDF/Allergen_April2014.pdf
Some Chick-fil-A restaurants cook in Canola oil. While would not say that it healthy, this oil is not a common allergen.
Can you suggest any restaurants that are more soy-free friendly? I’d really appreciate it!
The french fries do not give me a problem, but the grilled chicken does. turns out there is soy in the seasoning.
Soy is in their buns, dressings, and every kind of chicken. Nothing is fried in it; it’s an ingredient. Even in the grilled chicken.
Our daughter is highly reactive to soy in all forms except soy lecithin. She can confirm that the fries and hash browns at Chikfila do not have soy and are not fried in soybean oil. She can eat their market salad with NO chicken, and this works since there is bacon and egg in it. No dressing; they all have soybean oil.
Chikfila has a good ingredient list available on-line.
Do not trust the workers in any restaurant; perhaps the gourmet chef at a fancy place or if they literally show you the package and ingredients lists for everything.
Also ask what oil they oil the grill with.
I have a soy intolerance and have a reaction every time I eat there. My husband loves the place and I can’t eat there anymore because I don’t know what contains soy. I suspect there is soy oil mixed into the peanut oil regularly despite what they say on the website. I ate just a plain chicken sandwich with cheese and got sick.
Soy is it the bun and probably in the cheese.
At the chikfila I went to the counter person said ill go look and came back and told me she saw that told me they use soy oil to fry all the fried foods. But that the grilled chicken used in the marked salad was okay.
My daughter has a soy allergy as well with soybean oil having the worst effect on her. She can have the grilled chicken kids meal with French fries or applesauce. This may be a change since the post was originally written but wanted to inform you since options are already so limited!
Chick-fil-a fries their waffle cut fries in a canola/palm oil. You can confirm on their site. They do not fry the fries in peanut oil.
Potatoes (vegetable oil [canola oil, palm oil], disodium dihydrogen pyrophosphate [to promote color retention], dextrose), fully refined high oleic canola oil (citric acid added to preserve freshness and Dimethylopolysiloxane added as an anti-foaming agent).