Noodles & Company Chipotle Chicken Cavatappi
This dish is high in histamine, driven by the chipotle alfredo, spinach, and lime.
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.
It combines cavatappi noodles, chipotle alfredo sauce, grilled chicken, red peppers, corn, spinach, gouda, and lime.
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Chipotle alfredo, spinach, and lime — the alfredo sauce and spinach both run high, and lime is a citrus liberator, so any one of these keeps the dish high.
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Chicken, red peppers, gouda, and chipotle powder — these sit at moderate, so even trimming the top drivers leaves supporting ones in play.
The noodles and corn are the milder parts, but the sauce, spinach, and lime set the level here.
This rating comes from Noodles & Company'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. 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)