Panera Bread Cookie - Coconut Macaroon
This coconut macaroon is high, driven by the macaroon itself and its dark chocolate coating.
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.
A dense coconut cookie finished with a dark chocolate flavored confectionery.
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Coconut macaroon — the macaroon itself runs high as a category, so the cookie starts out high before anything else is added.
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Dark chocolate coating — the dark chocolate flavored confectionery is also high, so both main parts of this cookie push in the same direction.
Because both components are high, there is no easy tweak here. A plain fresh bread item from the same menu is a much lower-histamine choice.
This rating comes from Panera Bread'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)
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- 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)