Is Jimmy John's Jimmy Chips BBQ High in Histamine?

Jimmy John's Jimmy Chips BBQ

High histamine

These BBQ chips are high in histamine, mostly from torula yeast and tomato powder.

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.

Gluten Histamine Liberator

Potato chips fried in peanut oil and seasoned with molasses, spices, barley malt flour, torula yeast, paprika, and tomato powder.

Torula yeast and tomato powder — torula is a yeast that runs high, and tomato is a liberator, so together they set the chips' level.
Peanut oil, molasses, barley malt flour, and paprika — these all sit at moderate, layering onto the high seasoning components.

For a plainer option, a salted potato chip without the BBQ dusting is the lower-histamine pick.

This rating comes from Jimmy John's own published ingredient statement, read on August 10, 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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