Best Seed Oil Free Tortilla Chips in 2026
A few years ago, finding tortilla chips without seed oils usually meant finding one obscure bag online and ordering six of them at a time.
That is changing fast.
There are now legitimately good tortilla chips made with coconut oil, avocado oil, beef tallow, and other alternatives to the seed oils used in most conventional chips.
The harder question is which one you should actually buy.
We make FIXD, so we're obviously not pretending this is an independent review site. But we also don't think pretending every other seed oil free tortilla chip is bad does anyone any favors.
There are some good chips in this category.
They just solve slightly different problems.
Here are the seed oil free tortilla chips we think are worth knowing about in 2026, and which one makes the most sense depending on what you're looking for.
The quick answer
If you don't want to read the whole thing:
Best boldly flavored option: FIXD Tangy Tortilla
Best classic coconut oil tortilla chip: FIXD Simply Salted
Best tallow-cooked tortilla chip: MASA
Best traditional corn chip made with avocado oil: Siete MaÃz
Best heavy-duty dipping chip: Zack's Mighty
Another good coconut oil option: Gilly Loco
There isn't one objectively perfect tortilla chip here.
The biggest differences are the cooking oil, the type of corn or flour used, the texture, and whether you want a plain tortilla chip or something you can eat straight from the bag without salsa doing all the work.
What counts as a seed oil free tortilla chip?
For this list, we were looking for tortilla chips that don't use common seed oils such as:
- Canola oil
- Soybean oil
- Sunflower oil
- Safflower oil
- Cottonseed oil
- Corn oil
- Grapeseed oil
Instead, the chips below use coconut oil, avocado oil, or beef tallow.
That doesn't mean we're saying a tortilla chip becomes a health food because you change the frying oil.
It's still a chip.
This list is specifically for people who have decided they want to avoid seed oils and are trying to figure out which tortilla chips fit that preference.
If you're new to this, we have a separate guide explaining how to find tortilla chips without seed oils.
1. FIXD Tangy Tortilla
Best for: Bold flavor
Cooking oil: Coconut oil
This is the reason we started FIXD.
There were already some good plain tortilla chips without seed oils. What we had a harder time finding was the kind of chip you open because you actually want to snack on it.
Not because there's salsa nearby.
Not because the ingredient list is admirable.
Just because the chip itself is really good.
Tangy Tortilla is our answer to that.
FIXD tortilla chips start with a real corn tortilla chip and use coconut oil instead of seed oils. Tangy Tortilla gets a much bolder seasoning than a traditional sea salt chip, but we still leave out artificial dyes and colors.
It is also gluten free.
If you're specifically looking for something closer to the experience of grabbing a bag of heavily seasoned chips like Doritos, this is where we'd start.
We wrote a separate guide to Doritos alternatives without seed oils if that's the specific rabbit hole you're going down.
Why we like it
It solves a different problem than most seed oil free tortilla chips.
There are plenty of good chips designed for guacamole.
Tangy Tortilla was designed to disappear while you're standing in the kitchen.
Who it's for
Someone who wants a seed oil free tortilla chip but doesn't want to give up bold seasoning.
2. FIXD Simply Salted
Best for: A classic corn tortilla chip made with coconut oil
Cooking oil: Coconut oil
Simply Salted is the simpler side of FIXD.
It's a traditional salted corn tortilla chip made with coconut oil instead of seed oils.
No flavor fireworks. No attempt to turn it into a nacho chip.
Just corn, crunch, salt, and the kind of tortilla chip you want next to salsa, queso, guacamole, chili, or whatever else is on the table.
The biggest difference between Simply Salted and some of the other chips on this list is the cooking fat.
Siete and Zack's Mighty use avocado oil. MASA uses beef tallow. FIXD uses coconut oil.
If coconut oil is specifically what you're looking for, Simply Salted is one of the relatively small number of traditional corn tortilla chips in that lane.
3. MASA Tortilla Chips
Best for: Beef tallow
Cooking fat: Grass-fed beef tallow
MASA is probably one of the best-known brands in the seed oil free tortilla chip category.
Their core tortilla chips are made with organic corn, grass-fed beef tallow, and sea salt.
That's a genuinely simple ingredient list.
They also use actual corn rather than cassava or another grain-free substitute, which matters if what you're trying to replace is a conventional tortilla chip rather than tortilla chips as a category.
The obvious dividing line is the tallow.
Some people specifically seek it out. Others don't eat beef or simply prefer a plant-based cooking oil.
If you want a traditional-style corn tortilla chip fried in animal fat, MASA is probably one of the clearest options in the category.
Who it's for
Someone specifically looking for a tallow-cooked tortilla chip with a very short ingredient list.
4. Siete MaÃz Sea Salt Tortilla Chips
Best for: Avocado oil and easy grocery-store availability
Cooking oil: Avocado oil
Siete helped make alternative-ingredient tortilla chips mainstream.
Their MaÃz Sea Salt chips are different from the cassava-based grain-free tortilla chips the brand originally became known for.
MaÃz is actually a corn tortilla chip.
The current ingredient list is refreshingly simple: nixtamalized organic white and yellow corn, avocado oil, and sea salt.
That puts it much closer to the traditional tortilla chip experience.
If you want corn, avocado oil, and a simple salted chip, Siete MaÃz is a strong option.
It's also a brand you're much more likely to encounter while walking through a normal grocery store than some of the smaller direct-to-consumer options.
Who it's for
Someone who wants a straightforward corn tortilla chip made with avocado oil and values broad retail availability.
5. Zack's Mighty
Best for: Dipping
Cooking oil: Organic avocado oil
Zack's Mighty takes the tortilla part of tortilla chips pretty seriously.
They nixtamalize the corn, make tortillas, bake them, cut them into chips, and then fry them in avocado oil.
The result is deliberately sturdy.
This isn't the paper-thin restaurant chip that breaks the second you introduce it to a serious bowl of guacamole.
Zack's also uses certified organic corn and currently markets the line as completely seed oil free.
They've expanded beyond sea salt into flavored options, which makes them one of the more interesting brands to watch if flavored seed oil free chips are what you're after.
Who it's for
Someone who likes a substantial corn chip, uses chips primarily for dips, and prefers avocado oil.
6. Gilly Loco
Best for: Another coconut oil option
Cooking oil: Coconut oil
Gilly Loco is worth including because coconut-oil tortilla chips are still much less common than avocado-oil options.
Their yellow corn tortilla chips use five ingredients: stone-ground yellow corn, water, coconut oil, sea salt, and hydrated lime.
The brand leans into a thinner, crispier Southwest-style chip rather than the thick restaurant-style approach of something like Zack's Mighty or MASA.
So while FIXD and Gilly Loco both use coconut oil, they're not necessarily the same eating experience.
Who it's for
Someone who wants a simple corn tortilla chip cooked in coconut oil and prefers a thinner, crispier style.
Coconut oil vs. avocado oil vs. beef tallow
This is probably the easiest way to narrow down your options.
Coconut oil tortilla chips
If you're specifically looking for tortilla chips cooked in coconut oil, FIXD and Gilly Loco are two options worth knowing.
Coconut oil is also what we chose for FIXD.
Avocado oil tortilla chips
Siete and Zack's Mighty both use avocado oil.
Avocado oil has become one of the more common alternatives in the seed oil free snack category, so you'll generally find more options here.
Beef tallow tortilla chips
MASA is the standout in this category.
If you specifically want tortilla chips fried in beef tallow, they're one of the obvious places to start.
Of course, that also means they're not suitable for someone looking for a vegetarian or vegan tortilla chip.
What about grain-free tortilla chips?
This is where it's helpful to separate two categories that often get lumped together.
A seed oil free tortilla chip does not have to be grain free.
And a grain-free tortilla chip is not necessarily what someone searching for a better version of a normal tortilla chip actually wants.
Siete's Grain Free Tortilla Chips, for example, use cassava flour, avocado oil, tapioca starch, coconut flour, chia seeds, and sea salt.
They're a legitimate option, especially if grain free is important to you.
But they are a different chip.
FIXD, MASA, Siete MaÃz, Zack's Mighty, and Gilly Loco all stay closer to the traditional corn tortilla chip experience.
For us, that distinction matters.
We weren't trying to invent a substitute for tortilla chips.
We wanted tortilla chips.
Are seed oil free tortilla chips gluten free?
Often, but not automatically.
Gluten free and seed oil free describe two completely different things.
A chip could be made without seed oils but still contain an ingredient with gluten. A gluten free chip could easily be fried in canola, sunflower, or soybean oil.
If gluten matters to you, check that separately.
FIXD tortilla chips are gluten free, and we have a full guide explaining whether tortilla chips are gluten free and what you should check on the package.
Which seed oil free tortilla chip tastes the most like a normal tortilla chip?
This really depends on what you mean by "normal."
If you're picturing a bowl of salted corn tortilla chips next to salsa, look at the corn-based options:
- FIXD Simply Salted
- MASA
- Siete MaÃz
- Zack's Mighty
- Gilly Loco
All five keep corn at the center of the chip.
The differences mostly come down to the cooking fat, thickness, texture, and corn preparation.
If by "normal" you mean the bag of aggressively seasoned chips you grew up eating, that's a different category.
That's where we think FIXD Tangy Tortilla becomes interesting.
Most of the seed oil free market has gotten pretty good at making plain tortilla chips.
The flavored-chip aisle still has a lot more room.
So which one should you buy?
Here's how we'd break it down.
Want coconut oil and bold flavor?
FIXD Tangy Tortilla.
Want coconut oil and a classic salted tortilla chip?
FIXD Simply Salted.
Want beef tallow?
MASA.
Want avocado oil and a traditional corn chip?
Siete MaÃz.
Want a thick chip built for serious dipping?
Zack's Mighty.
Want another thin, crispy coconut oil corn chip?
Gilly Loco.
There are finally enough good seed oil free tortilla chips that the question isn't simply, "Can I find one?"
Now you can actually be picky.
That's a good problem to have.
We built FIXD because we thought the category could go one step further.
Don't just fix the oil.
Don't just clean up the ingredient list.
Make the chip so good you'd choose it even if you never looked at the back of the bag.
That's the standard we're trying to hit.