Is Noodles & Company Indonesian Peanut Sauce High in Histamine?

Noodles & Company Indonesian Peanut Sauce

High histamine

This peanut sauce is high in histamine from peanut butter, hoisin, cooking wine, sriracha, and lemon juice.

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.

Histamine Liberator Gluten DAO Blocker

This is a rich, sweet-savory sauce built on peanut butter, hoisin, cooking wine, and chili.

Crunchy peanut butter and sweet rice cooking wine — peanuts run high as a liberator, and the cooking wine is high and a DAO blocker that can slow histamine breakdown, so both push the sauce up.
Hoisin, sriracha, and lemon juice — the hoisin is high, the sriracha is high, and the lemon juice is a liberator, with rice vinegar dressing and molasses adding more, so many parts each run high.

There is no clean way to lighten this one, so a plainer sauce or a butter toss is the lower path.

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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