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Buffalo Wild Wings Crispy Buffalo Chicken Salad

High histamine

This salad runs high from the buffalo sauce, tomatoes, bacon crumbles, and bleu cheese dressing.

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.

The chicken and greens are the mild base, but several toppings each land high on their own.

  • Bleu cheese dressing and crumbles — bleu cheese is aged and mold-ripened, which puts it firmly high, and the bacon crumbles are cured, so they run high too.

  • Buffalo sauce and tomatoes — the buffalo sauce is high, and tomatoes are a classic liberator food that pushes histamine up whether raw or cooked.

Grilled chicken over plain greens with an oil dressing would land much lower.

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

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