Seed Oil Scout: Healthy Dining Reviews

i'm going on a trip with my mom to NYC very soon, and i want to avoid toxic seed oils at all cost for the health and wellness of myself and my mother. there's no app out there that does this! i'm so excited to go on this trip and have some peace of mind, not to mention peace with my body too! the only thing i dislike is the fact that there is a tapping limit for the day, but i guess it helped me stay off my phone. i was just trying to plan out where to eat yesterday, and i reached the tapping limit, so i had to wait until today. otherwise, i really love and appreciate SeedOilScout. thank you to the creator/s for caring about our health :)

SeedOilScout is a much-needed response to the seed oil epidemic. With it, you can put your money where your mouth is and patronize businesses whose ingredients won’t negatively alter your hormones. By no means is SeedOilScout perfect, and this is to be expected given its novelty, but I have no doubts SeedOilScout will continue to improve, especially as its popularity and user base grows. I’m excited to see where SeedOilScout will go and how it may help spread awareness of the dangers of seed oils and other unhealthy and toxic ingredients / practices.

Pretty solid idea for an app and it’s for sure a work in progress. Really they need to add a function where we can submit restaurants that don’t have seed oils because the closest one on the map for me is like 200 miles and I know of about 4 places that are within walking distance that cook without seed oils. I really don’t see SeedOilScout ever working unless this function is added but still a useful tool. I’m glad people are finally making a stand against this epidemic. Can’t wait to see where SeedOilScout goes

I am so happy I found SeedOilScout. Finding seed oil free restaurants is like finding a needle in a haystack. SeedOilScout is amazing. I know it's going to catch on because people are going to wake up and discover that they're eating poison 24/ when they consume seed oils . Thank you for creating SeedOilScout. Looking forward to opening a seed oil free "fast food" chain myself so everyone has a chance to eat poison free food on the go :).

People should not be eating gasoline, erm I mean “seed oils”. We need SeedOilScout to spread that message. I live in a city of 500K people and I can literally count on one hand how many restaurants only cook with real fats. It’s a crime that seed oils are everywhere. No one should be putting those toxins in their bodies. We have a long way to go, but SeedOilScout gives me hope for a healthier future.

I used to think never eating at a restaurant again was a requirement for avoiding seed oils, and solving that issue alone makes SeedOilScout priceless for me. My only wish were that it was more prevalent. If you live in NYC you’re set with tons of “Dine Fearlessly” options, but in my hometown Las Vegas we can only go to the single option so many times lol.

I am new to switching over to a non-vegetable “seed oil” plan with no soy and lowest sugar possible foods. I think SeedOilScout will be something I use often when going out to eat wherever I am. Great tool and I look forward to seeing it become a staple for everyone and changing the way restaurants change back over to healthy fats vs vegetable oils!

Since this is by user there’s not a lot of info. Every time I go somewhere new even in a new state there’s no reviews on anything. Idk if that’s because so many places use seed oils or so many people don’t care but I wish there was someone scoping out all the restaurants and putting actual info out there. SeedOilScout doesn’t provide much as of right now. Hopefully that Changes as the word gets out

Unfortunately it is hard to find a restaurateur that avoids using those nasty inflammatory seed oils. SeedOilScout can truly help those looking for the healthiest options as well as change the way restaurants source their ingredients if they want to keep loyal health conscious clients. Need to spread the word so the list of restaurants the service covers can grow!

As People start waking up to the toxicity of seed oils… SeedOilScout is going to become more and more popular! I really appreciate the thorough vetting of restaurants that SeedOilScout does so far!I love being able to see where I will be able to find options that are seed oil free… and Grass fed & have raw dairy! Makes dining out healthfully WAY easier!

This is just SeedOilScout I have needed to have on my phone for a while now. It is a great resource to be able to check my favorite resultants and see how healthy they really are. Can’t wait to use this more and more as restaurants continue to be added and updated.

what an amazing app I am so excited to feel like I have a little bit of control on the food I’m enjoying at local restaurants I love to support ! now I can continue on the mission of spreading the word about inflammatory seed oils & promoting change in the food & beverage industry & the health of my community !

This is how you shift the paradigm in healthy eating, to be aware of what restaurants use certain ingredients. We have to do better as society when it comes to our health. This is not a cult, this is just for empowerment and awareness. this is not to bash or discredit restaurants. Different strokes, different folks.

I mostly cook at home, because I now how awful processed foods are for your body. It's nice to be able to take a trip somewhere and have a close to homemade meal. Also to be cooked for every now and again. Thank you

how do you been having major health issues and being told I need to watch what oils are used hoping this takes off and more people start helping to grow this site

SeedOilScout changes the way I look for a place to go eat. As I watch what I eat but also love going out, the most important thing to me when eating out is avoiding seed oils. This takes hours of leg work out of the process for me!

Finally some information on which restaurants use seed oil in everything or those that cook with safe oils. Can’t wait as it becomes more popular and additional places get added!

Great app, uses good information and can really help with one’s specific, healthy diet. It’s new right now so not too many restaurants rated yet, but when it’s up and running fully can’t wait to find where to eat.

An app like this is so needed! As more and more people become awakened to the health issues caused by seed oils in basically everything the market must respond and consumers must join together to demand healthier oil choices or take our money elsewhere

Bravo! SeedOilScout I’ve been dreaming about! 🙏 So happy we have SeedOilScout to spread the word and INFLUENCE the restaurants to do the right thing and eliminate these toxins from our food!

Lets all join together and make this happen!

The vast majority of reviews for SeedOilScout must be fake. First, it makes you register with an email address to access SeedOilScout , and then once you’re in SeedOilScout , it makes you watch an ad before looking at the information for any restaurant. If you don’t want to watch an ad you can pay five dollars or $40. There are barely any restaurants with reviews or reports. And there is really no way to tell that the reports for restaurants are accurate. I would not trust the information in SeedOilScout at all. Don’t waste your time on it.

The payment model doesn’t sit right with an app like this. I love the idea of being able to locate all the seed oil free restaurants in my area. People should know this info!

Your users help you get restaurants added to your database however, now you are asking them to pay $5/month to view the list of safe restaurants? If you don’t want to pay, you can watch a few ads via a clunky popup that doesn’t work. It’s great info but not worth the money. Especially since there aren’t a lot of users adopting it in my area.

Verily, I was a fool, for I did naively render assistance unto Seed Oil Scout, unearthing perilous establishments peddling treacherous seed oils. Yet, fate did cast me into the abyss of involuntary disconnection, logging me out and compelling me to yield to the demand of five noble coins ($5) monthly to partake in SeedOilScout's service. Lo, I have taken measures to cast aside SeedOilScout from mine device, for the realm of such lowly peasantry doth not warrant the expenditure of five precious coins from my treasury! Should I wish to dine at an earthly establishment, I could merely summon them by vocal decree, inquiring if their kitchens dabble in witchcraft (food cooked in engine lubricant). Perchance, this horrible decision might have been born after a minimum of twenty-five percent of restaurants across the city were reviewed, only then would SeedOilScout cease its squandering of both my moments and my gold! Henceforth, I curse thee upon my lips, for fire and brimstone shall be given in return!

The vast majority of reviews for SeedOilScout must be fake. First, it makes you register with an email address to access SeedOilScout , and then once you’re in SeedOilScout , it makes you watch an ad before looking at the information for any restaurant. If you don’t want to watch an ad you can pay five dollars or $40. There are barely any restaurants with reviews or reports. And there is really no way to tell that the reports for restaurants are accurate. I would not trust the information in SeedOilScout at all. Don’t waste your time on it.

This would be an essential app to have, given how broken our food chain is and how deeply seed oils and other dangerous ingredients have permeated our supply. However, the PAYWALL is unnecessary. We and our families want to eat safely and happily, and already unfortunately pay a premium to do so. So a monthly fee to see the basic breakdown of any given restaurant is ridiculous to me.

Used to be a great app and used it all the time . Some of the updates seem more glitchy and are a pain. Now I cant click on any of the restaurants to even see the names. Health information should be free. Useless unless you pay now. I can’t even watch adds to see the restaurant names

Not enough information or users to be worth paying for and too glitchy to be worth paying for. Very disappointed

Downloaded this a while back & seemed like a good idea, but maps don’t show that many. More of the bad restaurants than good with useless info. It should Just show the good rather than demonize businesses others.

Used to show all the info but now they want $$$ for info monthly or yearly. Not worth it for me. I certainly am not going across state just to eat at a no seed oil restaurant that only may have salads. Make your own.

Bottom line, I feel SeedOilScout is too “green” in the market to be charging as it’s not like there is a plethora of dinning options/places offered. Massachusetts alone has just a few and South Carolina has just couple choices. Eating out is a bad choice in itself anyway :) so why not just eat what you want.

If your going out, just go out and try to make healthier choices. Me? I go out and get what I want. We all know fried stuff is bad anyway, seed oil or not…..am deleting SeedOilScout , don’t waste your money.

Had high hopes for SeedOilScout, even though it had a subpar UX. Living in a non health-conscious community, it’s a challenge to find dining options that align with my health values and SeedOilScout was helpful in locating a few good options in the greater area. However, most restaurants had not been reported on and now that everything is behind a paywall SeedOilScout is useless. There’s not nearly enough data available in my area to make a monthly fee worth it. The developers need to spend more time building community before locking everything up. Someone can do this much better, and I’m sure they will.

SeedOilScout is doing really important work. But the information should be freely accessible to the masses. Making healthy choices should not be saved for people who can afford it. Please consider advertisements for a free-to-access option and then a paid service if people want it ad free. I know these apps aren’t free to run but it’s really disappointing to see valuable information being hidden from people who may not be able to afford it. Even at the low cost.

I was using SeedOilScout since the beginning, took my time to contact a few restaurants and contribute to SeedOilScout , and now they want me to pay a monthly fee (and not an especially small fee) for the privilege of using it?! Yeah right. I don’t live in a large city, there were hardly any restaurants on here with thorough data to begin with, and I make 99% of my meals at home, so why on earth would I pay a ridiculous monthly fee?! Too bad. It was a nice concept.

Months ago this was a fantastic app to use, you could fly around the map and look for restaurants and places to eat at. Then they started heavily integrating a monthly subscription program into every single facet of SeedOilScout . The “free version” of SeedOilScout is completely unusable as everything you tap on is just an add to pay them monthly.

And this is yet another example of an app developer not at all understanding how to charge for their app and what most people would be willing to pay. I would be happy to pay for your app, but I’m not going to pay as much as I do for a streaming service monthly for SeedOilScout which I may check in on a couple times a month? I would be more than happy to pay a one time $30 payment or something though, but there’s no option. So I guess I just won’t use SeedOilScout anymore

SeedOilScout is now completely worthless if you don’t pay. In what universe do you expect the users to do all the work for crowdsourcing the data, but then also put all the data behind a paywall? It doesn’t take an MBA understand that will reduce the amount of restaurants reviewed, which will in turn make it less likely people pay for SeedOilScout . The functionality of it even if you do pay is still very poor and makes it hard to use. Great idea, poor execution.

I was came across SeedOilScout because I’m currently making changes in my life when it comes to healthy eating. I really liked the interface of SeedOilScout and how many options it listed, however, I am choosing to not use SeedOilScout because the creator chose to list the overly processed food eateries as “dine shamefully.” As someone who is trying to recover from disordered eating and already carries some shame with food, this is highly unacceptable. ALSO, a lot of people may not be able to afford eating at places that don’t use any seed oils and only use organic ingredients, and their struggles are not shameful. PLEASE change this feature.

App was pretty good when it first came out. Even though it wasn’t perfect I used it quite often. Now it’s completely unusable without handing them 9 dollars a month lol. Even if you agree that SeedOilScout is worth it, it is your duty to not subscribe. It’s the age where everybody with a mediocre service is asking for a subscription, **** em. We had a pretty nice community, I would go around and ask restaurants what they use to cook with, not that it mattered most the time because restaurants can only be added by the developers/admins.

Just another organization who claims to carry about public health but keeps everything hidden behind a paywall. When I first downloaded SeedOilScout it was free to use. I found it “somewhat” useful then, and even added a few restaurants I’ve dined at that don’t use seed oils. I didn’t enjoy that the majority of the food joints listed were all “dine shamefully” or “dine cautiously”, most of which were obvious…like fast food places. I had to sift through countless restaurants to find just one that was listed as not using seed oils. I get that that’s because the majority of places DO use seed oils, but maybe just only have the locations that don’t in your database. Even if they only use seed oils for some things, they simply should not qualify. Either way it no longer matters because you can no longer access ANY aspect of SeedOilScout without paying for it. You can’t even bypass the free trial for use of limited features within SeedOilScout . It’s ALL or nothing. I hope this blows up in their faces. You had a good idea, with good intentions, and let greed take over. I get we all have to make money but $9 a month for an app….that’s not even a great app to begin with, just a good idea, is a bit rich for most people’s blood. Deleting SeedOilScout. I hope someone else comes along and does it better without a stupid pay way. Use ads, or something, it’s not that difficult to make it free or affordable if you actually cared about people’s health.

I hate seed oils and avoid at all costs. Very diligent with every restaurant i go to. I used to use SeedOilScout when it was free. Pretty shotty overall and most of the information is honestly not reliable but it was a cool concept I was happy to support.

When they added the “pro” feature and basically locked everything I was hesitant due to the price being way too high relative to the benefit i had been getting with the free version.

Eventually after a few months I decided to do the free trial to see if the fees resulted in an improvement in the platform - NOPE.

Not only is the information unverified by SeedOilScout and unreliable (saw multiple “green checks” where i know for a fact the places are not safe), they expect users to 100% do all the research for them while paying fees!

I was never notified when my trial period ended as SeedOilScout promised to do, and not only that- they elected to charge me $50 - FIFTY DOLLARS - for an annual pro subscription that I did not ask for!!!

I would’ve been fine paying the $2 per month - i am not price sensitive and want to support awareness of healthy oils - but $50 at once without approval is just outrageous for a borderline useless platform.

I have been a long time user of SeedOilScout. I have contributed over 50 reviews and comtacted so many local restaurants to discuss oils with them to help myself understand my risks eating out and SeedOilScout was a wonderful way to share that knowledge and help others. Key word is WAS. They now charge you to use a crowd sourced app. I would 10 out of 10 times prefer viewing ads over paying for an app that is supposed to be bringing these ideas and mentality about seed oils to the public. Now it just seems like a private group that you have to pay to be a part of. Super disappointed in where this has gone

I love the idea of SeedOilScout and hope it catches on but this was a total waste of time for me. It has you go through tons of screens to “customize” your experience before throwing a $100 (!?!) sub prompt at you. That is way too much for an app like this. The custom options didn’t even seem to make any sort of difference on my search results.

There was exactly one decent option in KC (2.5 million pop metro) so it’s very limited in the midwest. Setting filters will filter on the map but not in list view. I’ll try it again in future but the $99 really put me off of it.

Tried SeedOilScout but doesn't have much info I my area. Now it's a subscription, deleted. Don't mind to pay but a subscription? This doesn't have nearly enough to be a subscription model. Love the idea of SeedOilScout but needs to go back to drawing board. It never really worked and do restaurants actually care about SeedOilScout? If you eat at any Asian restaurant it's going to be soybean oil or some seed oil no way will they change it because a app said so. SeedOilScout showed places that were obviously going to be seed oil places. There was a restaurant in my area that claims to be EVOO but no one claimed that place to be, so now I have to subscribe to help out with SeedOilScout?

I was looking forward to a means of making better choices in my dining experiences. I throughly enjoy the info freely given on their IG page. Not the same here!! I can’t even explore the “free” (understandably limited) version before deciding if I want to pay for any upgrades. So now I’ve submitted my email, created an account, and now can’t even explore the possibilities that SeedOilScout may or may not have to offer. I should have read the reviews first.
I will not be emailing support for ideas on fair prices. You actually have my email now if you feel the need to contact me for solutions.

Thank goodness this exists. Sees oils are a major problem for health. They are inflammatory and can have unwanted harmful chemicals. My experience on SeedOilScout has led me to great restaurants that are much more mindful of ingredients. I’m happy to pay 2ish$ a month for no stomach aches after eating out. Eating with a happy body and mind makes the food experience much more satisfying.

SeedOilScout is critically important to those that understand the dangers of machines lubricants AKA seed oils. Download and use SeedOilScout to understand which restaurants are poisoning people. Love the ability to quickly email restaurants with a ready to go format you can copy and paste. You don’t even need to search for emails SeedOilScout takes you right to the contact us page for a restaurant. As more people use SeedOilScout and post reviews restaurant’s will be forced to change as the negative reviews grow. App works as advertised. Easy 5 stars. Won’t go out to eat without opening Seed Oil Scout first. Keep emailing and posting reviews everyone. We can change the food system overtime!

If my review was based on an established app and it’s capabilities, I’d more so give it four stars. But since it’s new and just needs time to develop, I’m happy to give five stars.

I’m constantly calling and emailing to find out info that a lot of people are now entering into SeedOilScout. I do have trust issues though, so tend to need to see visual proof and double check when I’m at the restaurant. Which is still better than me calling and emailing in advance.

This just needs time to have more people adding info, which I am more than happy to contribute to! Overall, the ability to see ratings and reviews is a huge help for me.

SeedOilScout is a must for anyone who cares about their health. It is great being able to easily find out which restaurants near me are safe & makes finding healthy food on vacation super easy. Most of the seed oil free places I’ve found on here also have delicious food too, so it’s a double win. I look forward to SeedOilScout becoming more popular and getting even better.

I got a free trial of SeedOilScout recently and opted to be notified when it ended. I was never notified and then was charged for a full year of SeedOilScout (even though the monthly price was advertised.) very disappointed. I then sent an email to the company but never heard back.

As far as SeedOilScout , I am 100% behind their motive, but there’s very little information right now, especially considering it’s a paid app. I live in a top 100 metro area, but there were less than 10 restaurants with info, and only 2 that were considered healthy/seed oil free. I would consider this still in the very early stage of development, which is why I did not want to pay for it after the trial. I am mainly disappointed with the very poor communication and customer service, though.

If you have decided to take control of your health and stop eating non-food poisons like soybean oil, canola oil, cottonseed oil, soy, etc... you know how challenging it is to dine out. Most of us cook at home every night because its too much of a hassle trying to find a restaurant that doesn't use nasty seed oils. SeedOilScout has been helpful for us on those nights when we don't want to cook! Obviously you'll find more information in heavily populated areas, but the amount of restaurants banning seed oils from their menus is growing every day! We found quite a few places that were safe to eat in California thanks to SeedOilScout.

It’s way for extensive than I thought when purchasing SeedOilScout . I appreciate now restaurants are rated so you know you can go eat with caution or enjoy without worry. Makes picking dining much easier being able to pull SeedOilScout up and see what’s around. This is great!!! Looking forward to more restaurants being added.

I live in a medium sized city, surrounded by small towns—so for me, SeedOilScout is almost useless. That is unless I’m traveling somewhere. This being said, i don’t travel to large cities that often so I wish there was a version with ads or some kind of program where you can use it for free as long as you add content to SeedOilScout . Seems like a crowd source necessary app like this shouldn’t have a pay wall. Great concept, just needs some refinement. It’s presently not worth the cost

I was charged with full year subscription ,despite, I cancelled SeedOilScout on the last day of my free trial.

I am still waiting to hear about the refund and so far no one has relied my emails on the provided contact emails, but so far I am having a horrible experience , tried two reach them on three different contacts.

I have no intentions to use SeedOilScout as it doesn’t provide much information for the town I live in and the list of restaurants is pretty short. I am very disappointed and feel tricked for paying so much for something I won’t be using.