KFC Allergen Menu and Ingredients

Original Recipe chicken carries eggs, gluten, milk and wheat, all of it from the seasoned flour that coats the bird before pressure frying. The KFC allergen menu below sets that declaration against every other item on the board. Sesame reaches only the bun items and one sauce, and tree nuts appear on nothing but the Café Valley cakes.

Extra Crispy chicken drops the eggs and the milk, leaving gluten and wheat from its breading alone. Kentucky Grilled Chicken adds soy where the marinade goes on, and the Spicy Crispy line matches Extra Crispy exactly. Coleslaw declares eggs and nothing else.

KFC allergen menu at a glance

KFC Allergen Menu Item by Item

The KFC allergen menu below follows the board, from the bone-in chicken through the sandwiches, the sides, the sauces and the drinks. Every row names what the item declares. Items declaring none of the ten allergens carry the words None declared.

KFC Menu prices for these same items run down the price list, one row to an item, with calorie counts alongside. Family Size rows repeat the same declarations, and each drink row covers every size listed.

KFC Original Recipe Chicken Allergens

Original Recipe chicken meets a seasoned flour dredge before pressure frying, and that coating carries eggs, gluten, milk and wheat. Every cut declares the same four. Original Recipe Tenders and Kentucky Fried Nuggets follow the identical line, so the declaration holds from a single nugget up to a full Breast.

KFC Extra Crispy, Spicy and Grilled Chicken Allergens

Extra Crispy chicken uses a different breading, and it declares gluten and wheat without the eggs or milk. Spicy Crispy matches it exactly. Kentucky Grilled Chicken skips the fryer but adds soy from its marinade, so it declares gluten, soy and wheat across all four cuts.

KFC Wings and Popcorn Chicken Allergens

Popcorn Chicken and its Bucket declare milk, soy and wheat but no gluten, while the Combo adds gluten to that line. Popcorn Chicken Big Box adds eggs as well. Hot & Spicy Wings declare gluten and wheat per wing, and Mike’s Hot Honey matches them. Honey BBQ adds soy on top.

KFC Chicken Sandwich Allergens

Classic Chicken Sandwich, Spicy Chicken Sandwich and Chicken Little all declare eggs, gluten, sesame, soy and wheat, with the sesame coming off the bun. KFC Twister drops the sesame and the soy, and adds milk instead. KFC Snacker carries all six names: eggs, gluten, milk, sesame, soy and wheat.

KFC Buckets, Bowls, Pot Pies and Big Boxes Allergens

KFC Famous Bowl layers chicken, mashed potato, gravy, corn and cheese, and declares eggs, gluten, milk, soy and wheat. Chicken Pot Pie, Country Fried Steak Meal and Mac & Cheese Bowl match it name for name. Wings & Sandwich Big Box adds sesame, which arrives on the sandwich bun packed inside the box.

Tender Go Buckets and Nugget Go Buckets declare eggs, gluten, milk and wheat with wedges, and soy joins them with fries. Hot & Spicy Wing Go Buckets declare gluten and wheat with wedges, and gluten, soy and wheat with fries.

KFC Sides Allergens

Corn on the Cob, Sweet Kernel Corn and Green Beans declare nothing at all. Biscuit carries gluten, milk, soy and wheat, and KFC Cornbread Muffin adds eggs to those four. Biscuits and mashed potatoes also go onto an order as off-menu add-ons, charged at the figure each side already carries. The KFC allergen menu puts eggs alone against Coleslaw, and milk with soy against plain Mashed Potatoes.

KFC Family Size Sides Allergens

Family Size sides repeat the individual declarations at a larger portion, and nothing new enters the list. Macaroni & Cheese (Family) declares eggs, gluten, milk and wheat. Mashed Potatoes With Gravy (Family) declares gluten, milk, soy and wheat, while both corn sides and the Green Beans declare nothing.

KFC Salad and Dressing Allergens

House Side Salad declares nothing, and Caesar Side Salad declares milk from the cheese on it. KFC Creamy Parmesan Caesar Dressing is the one item here carrying fish, alongside eggs, milk and soy. Parmesan Garlic Croutons bring gluten, milk and wheat, while Marzetti Light Italian Dressing declares none of the ten.

KFC Dessert Allergens

Café Valley cakes are the only place tree nuts appear on the KFC allergen menu, and all four declare them. Chocolate Chunk Cookie declares eggs, milk, soy and wheat but no gluten. Apple Turnover declares gluten and wheat alone. KFC’s own notice adds that peanuts are present in the Reese’s Peanut Butter Pie Slice, which has no row in the grid.

KFC Dipping Sauce Allergens

Eggs run through eight of the seventeen dipping sauces and condiments, from KFC Sauce and Comeback Sauce to Honey Mustard. Ranch and Buffalo Ranch add milk to the eggs, and Colonel’s Buttery Spread declares milk alone. Sticky Chicky Sweet n’ Sour alone declares fish, and seven items declare nothing, from BBQ and Ketchup to the jam and jelly packets. Supergirl Ranch is the one dipping sauce carrying sesame.

KFC Kids Meal Allergens

Kids Meals build on the same breaded chicken, so both declare eggs, gluten, milk and wheat. Milk 1% and Chocolate Milk 1% declare milk alone. The KFC allergen menu leaves Capri Sun and Musselman’s Applesauce clear of all ten allergens.

KFC Regional Menu Allergens

Country Fried Steak runs on a breaded patty and declares gluten, milk, soy and wheat, with or without the gravy. KFC Gizzards and KFC Livers each declare eggs, gluten, milk and wheat. Regional availability decides whether any of the four reach a given restaurant, and none of them turn up nationwide. KFC trades from about three thousand four hundred US restaurants.

KFC Beverage Allergens

Every soft drink, tea and lemonade on the KFC allergen menu declares none of the ten allergens, from 7UP and Pepsi to the Dirty sodas. Each row covers every size listed, because KFC’s tool gives the same answer for each size. Milk 1% and Chocolate Milk 1% sit with the kids items above, since both declare milk.

Dairy-Free Options at KFC

KFC allergen menu entries clear milk from fifty-two food items across the board, before any drink is counted. Thirteen dipping sauces and condiments lead the list, and every Extra Crispy, Spicy Crispy and Grilled chicken piece follows. Three wings qualify, along with Classic Chicken Sandwich, Spicy Chicken Sandwich and Chicken Little.

Eight sides stay dairy-free, among them Coleslaw, Corn on the Cob and Secret Recipe Fries, and six Family Size sides do the same. Both Hot & Spicy Wing Go Buckets, Apple Turnover, House Side Salad, Marzetti Light Italian Dressing, Capri Sun and Musselman’s Applesauce finish the food list. All 32 drink rows declare no milk either.

Ordering Gluten-Free at KFC

KFC’s allergen tool prints a gluten line of its own, so this section counts the items that declare no gluten. Sixty-nine food rows on the KFC allergen menu declare it, among them every bone-in piece, tender, nugget and wing. Forty food rows declare no gluten, and all 32 drink rows join them.

Thirty-seven of those forty also declare no wheat. All seventeen dipping sauces and condiments are among them, as are six of the seven salads and dressings. Parmesan Garlic Croutons are the exception.

Coleslaw, Corn on the Cob, Green Beans, Mashed Potatoes and Sweet Kernel Corn add five sides. Their Family Size counterparts add five more, and four kids items close out the count.

The other three declare wheat while showing no gluten: Popcorn Chicken, Popcorn Chicken Bucket and Chocolate Chunk Cookie. KFC states that cross contact cannot be guaranteed, so an item declaring no gluten still carries that caution.

Cross-Contact and Shared Equipment at KFC

KFC breads its chicken at an open station where flour is handled by hand. That puts wheat and gluten across surfaces the KFC allergen menu lists as clear for other items. Original Recipe cooks under pressure while Extra Crispy and the wings share open fryer oil.

KFC states that in some restaurants fish, chicken and potatoes may be prepared in the same oil. Its notice adds that products may share equipment and kitchen space with items containing egg, milk, soy or wheat. Sides are portioned with scoops that move between containers. Telling a team member about a serious allergy covers what a printed grid cannot, and a glove change is worth asking for rather than assuming.

KFC Allergen Menu FAQs