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The Best Seed Oil Free Snack Brands You Can Buy Online

Most snack aisles are a delivery mechanism for canola and sunflower oil. The brands here made a different call. They cook in beef tallow, avocado oil, coconut oil, or olive oil — not because it's trendy, but because it's how food used to be made before industrial seed oils took over in the mid-20th century. You'll find chips that actually taste like potatoes, jerky from genuinely grass-fed cattle, and popcorn that doesn't leave a strange slick in your mouth. If you're cutting seed oils and want snacks that don't require squinting at a twelve-ingredient oil blend, this is where to start.

Chomps

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Grass-fed beef jerky sticks with zero garbage ingredients.

Chomps started as a simple fix for a broken snack category: most meat sticks are loaded with nitrates, soy, and filler. Co-founders Pete Maldonado and Rashid Ali built Chomps around 100% grass-fed and finished beef, no added sugar, and a short ingredient list. The sticks are Whole30-approved and genuinely filling — they've become the default carry-everywhere snack for a whole generation of label readers.

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Jackson's

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Sweet potato chips fried in pure avocado oil, nothing else weird.

Jackson's makes sweet potato and heirloom potato chips cooked exclusively in avocado oil. The brand was founded with a specific focus on avoiding seed oils — it's baked into their identity, not bolted on as a trend. The chips are thicker than most, with a clean snap and a flavor that actually tastes like the potato variety on the bag.

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LesserEvil

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Coconut oil popcorn that doesn't make you feel gross afterward.

LesserEvil pops their corn in organic coconut oil, which gives it a richness that vegetable oil popcorn can't touch. The Himalayan Pink Salt variety has three ingredients. Based in Connecticut, they've built a dedicated following among snackers who want something crunchy that doesn't come with a seed oil hangover. The packaging is loud and fun, but the ingredient list is quietly minimal.

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Epic Provisions

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Meat bars and snack strips from 100% grass-fed animals.

Epic was founded by Taylor Collins and Katie Forrest, who were ultra-endurance athletes looking for real-food fuel. They pioneered the grass-fed meat bar format: high protein, whole ingredients, no seed oils. Epic sources from regenerative farms and has a genuine commitment to animal welfare that predates the current trend. Their Bison and Venison bars are particularly worth trying.

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The New Primal

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Clean jerky and meat sticks made from pasture-raised animals.

The New Primal launched in 2012 in Charleston, SC with a focus on jerky made from animals actually raised on pasture. Their products are free from gluten, soy, and seed oils — the ingredient lists are short enough to read in three seconds. The brand has since expanded into sauces and marinades using the same clean-ingredient standard they apply to their snacks.

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Barnana

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Plantain chips and banana snacks with genuinely simple ingredients.

Barnana started by rescuing organic bananas that were too ripe for retail — bananas that would otherwise be discarded — and turning them into chews and chips. Their plantain chips are cooked in coconut oil and seasoned simply. The brand has a real sustainability story rooted in working directly with farmers in Ecuador and Peru, and the snacks themselves taste like actual food.

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Beefy's Own

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Beef tallow potato chips the way chips tasted before 1990.

Beefy's Own makes one thing: potato chips fried in 100% beef tallow. No avocado oil compromise, no coconut oil alternative — just the way McDonald's fries tasted before they switched to vegetable oil. Small batch, made in the US, and increasingly hard to find in stock because the seed-oil-free crowd found them. The flavor is notably cleaner and more potato-forward than any conventional chip.

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About This District

Shopping for seed oil free snack brands requires more than just trusting front-of-pack claims. The phrase 'made with avocado oil' can appear on a product that also contains sunflower or canola oil as secondary fats — so always read the full ingredient list, not just the call-out on the front. Look for products where the oil is the only fat listed, or where the brand explicitly states 'no seed oils' rather than just leading with a more photogenic oil. The snack categories where seed oil free options are easiest to find: jerky and meat sticks (where the fat comes from the meat itself or tallow), popcorn (where coconut oil is a common swap), and potato chips from brands specifically built around avocado oil or tallow frying. Grain-free crackers and tortilla chips tend to use avocado oil as a matter of course because they're already marketing to a paleo or grain-free audience. For chips, avocado oil is the most common seed-oil-free cooking fat — it has a high smoke point and neutral flavor that works well for frying. Coconut oil is preferred for popcorn because it adds a subtle richness without overpowering the corn. Beef tallow is the old-school choice: it's what McDonald's originally used before switching to vegetable oil in 1990, and brands like Beefy's Own have brought it back as a selling point. Price parity with conventional snacks doesn't exist in this category — expect to pay $4–8 for a bag of chips or $3–5 for a jerky stick. Buying variety packs or subscribing directly with the brand tends to bring that down 15–20%.