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Tim Hortons Grilled Chicken Panini

High histamine

A Tim Hortons Grilled Chicken Panini is grilled chicken on pressed bread with sauce, high from yeast extract and lemon juice.

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 sandwich layers white chicken meat and a seasoned sauce on a pressed wheat roll.

  • Yeast extract and lemon juice lead — yeast extract runs high, and lemon juice concentrate is high and a classic liberator, so together they set the level.

  • Several moderate pieces too — the enriched wheat flour, yeast, soybean oil, vinegar, and paprika all land moderate, sitting under those high drivers.

Because the sauce and bread carry the load, there isn't a clean tweak that brings this all the way down.

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

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  6. Guideline on management of suspected adverse reactions to ingested histamine — Reese et al. (2021)