IHOP Tomato Basil Soup
This tomato basil soup is high in histamine, mainly from its tomato paste and yeast extract.
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.
This is a creamy tomato soup built on heavy cream, tomato paste, onion, garlic, basil, and yeast extract.
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Tomato paste — tomato is a classic histamine liberator, and the paste is a concentrated form of it, so it drives the soup up on its own.
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Yeast extract — this savory flavor booster is high in histamine, adding a second driver alongside the tomato.
The cream and basil are milder, but the tomato and yeast extract set the level here, so a broth-free, tomato-free option is the gentler pick.
This rating comes from IHOP'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)