Chipotle Allergen Menu and Ingredients

Ingredients rather than finished dishes are the unit here, because a burrito holds whatever you asked for. The Chipotle allergen menu therefore works ingredient by ingredient, so you can read down the line and add up your own build. Four allergens appear across the whole list.

Milk, soy, wheat with gluten, and sulphites carry every declaration on the list. Chipotle states that it uses no eggs, mustard, peanuts, tree nuts, sesame, shellfish or fish as ingredients in its food. The grid covers 26 ingredients, so a build can be checked for allergens in one pass.

Chipotle allergen menu at a glance

Chipotle Allergen Menu Item by Item

The Chipotle line builds every order from parts, so the parts are what you read. A chicken bowl carries whatever its rice, beans, salsa, cheese and sour cream carry, and nothing more. Swap the tortilla in and wheat arrives with it. Leave the cheese and sour cream out and milk leaves with them.

The Contains column names what an ingredient declares outright, nothing more. Chipotle notes that individual foods may come into contact during preparation, and the grid does not reflect that. Anyone ordering around a severe allergy should say so at the counter and ask for a glove change.

Chipotle Tortilla and Chip Allergens

Flour tortillas put wheat, gluten and sulphites on the grid, with one entry for burritos and another for tacos. Crispy Corn Tortilla and Tortilla Chips declare none of the four tracked allergens. Only the flour tortillas carry a declaration.

Chipotle Protein Allergens

Barbacoa, Carnitas, Chicken and Steak declare none of the four tracked allergens, which makes the protein row the easiest part of a build to clear. Sofritas breaks the pattern with soy and sulphites. Chipotle notes that its carnitas are made with pork.

Chipotle Rice, Bean and Vegetable Allergens

White Rice, Brown Rice, Black Beans, Pinto Beans and Fajita Vegetables declare none of the four tracked allergens. Romaine Lettuce and the Supergreens Lettuce Blend join them. Nothing here adds an allergen to a build.

Chipotle Salsa and Guacamole Allergens

Fresh Tomato Salsa, Roasted Chili-Corn Salsa and both tomatillo salsas declare none of the four tracked allergens. Guacamole joins the salsas in declaring nothing, so none of these five adds a declaration to a build.

Chipotle Cheese, Sour Cream and Queso Allergens

Milk arrives here and nowhere else. Monterey Jack Cheese, Queso Blanco and Sour Cream each declare it. Leaving all three off a build removes milk from it entirely.

Chipotle Dressing and Sauce Allergens

Chipotle Honey Vinaigrette and Red Chimichurri Sauce each declare sulphites and nothing else. Chipotle says every sulphite in its food comes from vinegar, so it labels any item containing vinegar as a possible sulphite allergen.

Dairy-Free Options at Chipotle

The Chipotle allergen menu clears milk from 23 of the 26 ingredients on the grid. Every protein qualifies, including Barbacoa, Carnitas, Chicken, Steak and Sofritas. Rice, beans, fajita vegetables, both lettuces, all four salsas and Guacamole contain no milk either, which leaves most of any build untouched by dairy.

Both flour tortillas, the Crispy Corn Tortilla and the Tortilla Chips stay dairy-free as well, along with Chipotle Honey Vinaigrette and Red Chimichurri Sauce. Milk turns up only on Monterey Jack Cheese, Queso Blanco and Sour Cream. Each of the 23 qualifying ingredients is listed with whatever else it declares.

Ordering Gluten-Free at Chipotle

Wheat and gluten appear on exactly two ingredients, the Flour Tortilla for burritos and the Flour Tortilla for tacos. Chipotle combines the wheat and gluten categories because every gluten-containing item contains wheat. Every protein, all rice and beans, all four salsas, Guacamole and the Tortilla Chips declare neither wheat nor gluten, which keeps most builds clear.

Crispy Corn Tortilla stands in for the flour tortilla on tacos, and bowls and salads use no tortilla at all. Each of the 24 ingredients without a wheat or gluten declaration is listed with whatever else it declares. The Chipotle allergen menu describes ingredients only and says nothing about contact on the line.

Cross-Contact and Shared Equipment at Chipotle

Chipotle builds every order down one open line where the same utensils move between bins. Cheese and sour cream sit within inches of the salsas, and a spoon that touches one can touch the next. The Chipotle allergen menu describes ingredients as served, not the line they cross.

Staff can change gloves and open a fresh bin on request, which is the only real protection the line offers. No assembly line can promise a bowl free of all contact with an allergen. Reading the Chipotle allergen menu ingredient by ingredient remains the surest way to check a build.

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