Cold Stone Creamery Apple Pie Filling
This apple pie filling is moderate, mostly because of the cinnamon.
Fast food is cooked in batches and held warm rather than made when you order it, so it is rarely as fresh as something cooked at home. That matters here because histamine builds up as protein foods sit, which means the same item can affect you differently depending on how long it waited.
A cooked apple filling with high fructose corn syrup, starch, cinnamon, and a little citric acid and turmeric.
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Cinnamon — the cinnamon is the one moderate driver here, which is what keeps this filling from sitting fully low.
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The apples and syrup — the apple base and the sweeteners are milder, so this is a middle-of-the-road mix-in rather than a high-histamine one.
If you want to go lower, fresh blueberries are a gentler fruit topping at the same counter.
This rating comes from Cold Stone Creamery's own published ingredient statement, read on August 23, 2026. Restaurant recipes vary by location and change over time, so always check the current listing: source 1, source 2, source 3. 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)