Boston Market Tiger Sauce
This tiger sauce is high, driven by lemon juice concentrate and sodium metabisulfite.
Food here is usually assembled to order from components that were prepped earlier in the day, so it tends to be fresher than a drive-through and less fresh than cooking at home. Histamine builds up as protein foods sit, so how long the chicken or beef has been in the warmer matters as much as what is in the bowl. Treat the rating above as a starting point.
Tiger sauce is a creamy horseradish-mustard blend of soybean oil, egg, vinegar, mustard, horseradish, and seasonings.
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Lemon concentrate and a sulfite lead — lemon juice concentrate is a histamine liberator and sodium metabisulfite runs high, so together they set the level.
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Other pieces add on — soybean oil, grated horseradish, and paprika each run moderate, so the sauce stays elevated beyond the lemon.
For a lower-histamine option, a plain fresh sauce without lemon and sulfites tends to be gentler.
This rating comes from Boston Market's own published ingredient statement, read on August 11, 2026. Restaurant recipes vary by location and change over time, so always check the current listing: source 1, source 2. How we rate foods →
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References
- SIGHI Food Compatibility List — SIGHI (2026)
- Histamine and histamine intolerance — Maintz & Novak (2007)
- Histamine Intolerance: The Current State of the Art — Comas-Basté et al. (2020)
- Low-Histamine Diets: Is the Exclusion of Foods Justified by Their Histamine Content? — Sánchez-Pérez et al. (2021)
- Histamine Intolerance: Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Beyond — Jochum (2024)
- Guideline on management of suspected adverse reactions to ingested histamine — Reese et al. (2021)