Buffalo Wild Wings Bacon Mac & Cheese Burger
This burger is high in histamine, with several high-histamine toppings stacked together.
Most of this is cooked to order, which is the best case for histamine. Even so, a restaurant kitchen preps ahead and holds things warm through a service, so freshness varies more than it would at home. The rating above comes from the chain's published ingredients. If a dish is borderline for you, asking how it is prepared tells you more than the menu does.
It layers two patties, thick-cut bacon, American cheese, parmesan-crusted mac and cheese, pickled hot peppers, and hatch chile aioli on a challah bun.
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Parmesan-crusted mac and cheese — parmesan is an aged cheese, and aged cheese carries a lot of histamine, so this topping runs high.
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Pickled hot peppers and hatch chile aioli — the peppers are pickled, a fermentation step that builds histamine, and the aioli is high as well.
A plain fresh burger without these toppings is a much lower-histamine choice here.
This rating comes from Buffalo Wild Wings' 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)