Olive Garden Allergen Menu and Ingredients

Wheat and gluten run through most plates at Olive Garden, because pasta and breadsticks carry both. The Olive Garden allergen menu below names dairy, eggs, fish, crustacean, mollusk, tree nuts, wheat, gluten, soy and sulfites against each row. Dairy turns up almost as widely as wheat does.

Zuppa Toscana Soup declares dairy alone. Crustacean stays on the shrimp plates across the Olive Garden allergen menu. Mollusk sits on Calamari and Seafood Alfredo, and fish on the salmon and nowhere else. No row declares peanuts or sesame.

Olive Garden allergen menu at a glance

Olive Garden Allergen Menu Item by Item

Each row below carries the allergens Olive Garden’s own guide declares for that item. Ten rows print with no allergen marked in the guide, among them Tomato Sauce, Grapes and French Fries, and each reads None declared below. The Olive Garden allergen menu reads item by item rather than by category.

Kitchens boil pasta, fry breaded plates and dress salads in one room. Cross-contact stays possible on any order. Tell a server about an allergy before the ticket goes in rather than after the food reaches the table.

Olive Garden Appetizer Allergens

Fried Mozzarella declares dairy, wheat, gluten and soy, and Calamari adds eggs and mollusk to that set. Shrimp Fritto Misto is the only starter declaring crustacean or sulfites. Spinach-Artichoke Dip stops at dairy, wheat and gluten.

Olive Garden Soup, Salad and Breadstick Allergens

Zuppa Toscana Soup declares dairy and nothing else, while Minestrone Soup carries wheat, gluten, soy and sulfites with no dairy or eggs. The Breadstick with garlic topping keeps arriving through an Olive Garden meal, and every one declares wheat, gluten and soy. Pasta Fagioli Soup carries the same three. Chicken & Gnocchi Soup and the Salad with Signature Italian Dressing both add dairy, eggs and sulfites to wheat and gluten.

Olive Garden Create Your Own Pasta Allergens

Six pasta shapes, from Angel Hair to Spaghetti, each declare wheat and gluten, while Gluten-Free Rotini declares eggs alone. Marinara and Meat Sauce declare soy and nothing else. Alfredo Sauce and Spicy Alfredo Sauce add dairy, and Creamy Mushroom Sauce adds soy and sulfites on top. Sautéed Shrimp declares crustacean and sulfites without any wheat.

Six rows read None declared: Tomato Sauce, Italian Sausage, Grilled Chicken, Add Pepperoni, Add Grilled Chicken and Add Italian Sausage.

Olive Garden Entrée Allergens

Fettuccine Alfredo declares dairy, wheat and gluten on the Olive Garden allergen menu, and Lasagna Classico adds soy to that set. Spaghetti with Meat Sauce carries wheat, gluten and soy without any dairy. Seven entrées declare crustacean, and Seafood Alfredo is the only one adding mollusk. Herb-Grilled Salmon sits on the Olive Garden menu as the lone entrée declaring fish, and it carries no wheat or gluten.

Olive Garden Lunch Sandwich and Flatbread Allergens

The Olive Garden allergen menu marks these lunch rows as available only where offered. Four sandwiches share dairy, wheat, gluten and sulfites, and Italian Grilled Chicken Sandwich is the one that adds eggs in place of soy. The three flatbreads declare the same four, with soy added on Five Cheese and Classic Pepperoni.

Olive Garden Kids Menu Allergens

Four kids’ plates carry a declaration on the Olive Garden allergen menu, and Cheese Ravioli is the only one naming eggs. Cheese Pizza and Macaroni & Cheese both declare dairy, wheat and gluten. Chicken Fingers declare wheat and gluten alone.

Olive Garden Side Allergens

Five of the eight sides carry at least one declaration. Mashed Potatoes and Parmesan Garlic Broccoli declare dairy alone, Italian Sausage with marinara declares soy alone, and Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce declares wheat and gluten. Meatballs with marinara carries dairy, eggs, wheat, gluten and soy, the widest set among the sides. Seasoned Broccoli, French Fries and Grapes read None declared.

Olive Garden Gluten-Sensitive Allergens

Gluten-Sensitive collects eight rows that declare no wheat or gluten. Rotini Pasta with Marinara and Rotini Pasta with Meat Sauce each declare eggs and soy. The 6 oz. Sirloin declares dairy alone in this section, against dairy, wheat and gluten in the entrée list. Famous House Salad without Croutons declares dairy, eggs and sulfites, and Add Shrimp declares crustacean and sulfites.

Olive Garden Dessert Allergens

Black Tie Mousse Cake, Chocolate Lasagna, Tiramisu and both cheesecakes share one declaration: dairy, eggs, wheat, gluten and soy. Strawberry Cream Cake carries the same set without soy. Almond Biscotti is the only row on the page declaring tree nuts. Warm Italian Doughnuts skip eggs, and Mint Candy declares dairy and soy.

Raspberry Sauce reads None declared.

Dairy-Free Options at Olive Garden

The Olive Garden allergen menu leaves dairy off 34 of the 113 rows listed here, and 79 rows declare it. The 24 rows in the table are mostly pasta shapes, spaghetti plates, sauces and add-on proteins, and each still declares something else. The other 10 read None declared and are not repeated there. Shared equipment can carry dairy across rows that do not declare it.

Ordering Gluten-Free at Olive Garden

Wheat and gluten each appear on 83 of the 113 rows, always together. The 30 rows without them include the 10 that read None declared. The other 20 cover 18 dishes, from Zuppa Toscana Soup to the Gluten-Sensitive plates, and the table lists them.

Olive Garden states that its kitchens are not free of gluten and cannot ensure any item meets the definition of gluten-free. These rows declare no gluten, which is not a guarantee of none.

Cross-Contact and Shared Equipment at Olive Garden

One kitchen boils the pasta, fries the breaded plates and finishes the sauces at Olive Garden. The guide flags grill and fryer items as a special cross-contact risk. It adds that pastas with egg and without egg share one pasta cooker.

Among the 113 rows on the Olive Garden allergen menu, 20 carry the fried-in-soy-oil flag and 17 carry the grilled flag. Those flags mark cross-contact rather than declared allergens. The guide adds that highly refined soybean oil is not a major allergen, so Chicken Fingers carry the fried flag without a soy declaration.

The guide does not say which items were made in a facility that handles an allergen. Anyone with an allergy should tell the server before the order goes in, as the guide asks.

Olive Garden Allergen Menu FAQs