Tim Hortons Creme Bru-Latte
This latte is espresso with milk, cream, and sugar, and it lands low in histamine.
Fast food is cooked in batches and held warm rather than made when you order it, so it is rarely as fresh as something cooked at home. That matters here because histamine builds up as protein foods sit, which means the same item can affect you differently depending on how long it waited.
This drink is basically espresso pulled with reduced fat milk, a little dry cream, sugar, and some stabilizers, and none of that flags as a histamine driver.
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Fresh dairy stays low — the milk, skim milk powder, and dry cream here are unfermented, so they sit on the low side rather than acting like an aged cheese would.
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Coffee and sugar are mild — espresso and the sweetened creme flavoring do not carry meaningful histamine, so the whole drink reads low.
This is a comfortable pick as-is if you are watching histamine.
This rating comes from Tim Hortons' 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)