Here is the complete Wendy’s gluten free menu.
Like most fast food restaurant menus, the Wendy’s gluten free menu consists primarily of salads, baked potatoes, and a Frosty.
Technically, you can get some burgers ordered without a bun in order to make it gluten free but Wendy’s can’t guarantee that it’s being prepared in a cross-contamination free environment. That said, it’s best to avoid burgers altogether.
Wendy’s Gluten Free Menu
Here are all of the gluten free options currently offered at Wendy’s.
Burgers and Sandwiches
You can order their burgers and sandwiches without a bun or wrapped in lettuce. In terms of cross contamination, there is a very high risk which means that even though some of the bunless burgers and chicken sandwiches are technically gluten free, they are prepared on a surface that may contain traces of wheat or gluten. As a result, I will only list plain burgers patties as a common courtesy.
- Hamburger Patty
- Grilled Chicken
Baked Potatoes
- Plain
- Sour Cream & Chives
- Cheese
- Bacon & Cheese
- Broccoli & Cheese
- Chili & Cheese
Sides
- Chili
- Apple Slices
- Baked Potato
- Sour Cream and Chives Potaoto
- Broccoli and Cheese Baked Potato
- Bacon and Cheesed Baked Potato
- Cheese Baked Potato
- Chili and Cheese Baked Potato
- Garden Side Salad (without croutons)
- Caesar Sides Salad (without croutons)
Salads
- Apple Pecan Chicken Salad (without croutons)
- Southwest Avocado Salad (without croutons)
- Taco Salad (without Croutons)
- Parmesan Caesar Salad (without croutons)
Salad Dressings
- Ranch Dressing
- Pomegranate Vinaigrette
- Caesar Dressing
- Southwest Ranch
Breakfast
- Seasoned Potatoes
Frosty™
- Chocolate Frosty
- Vanilla Frosty
Sauces and Condiments
- American Cheese
- Applewood Smoked Bacon
- BBQ Sauce
- Buttery Best Spread
- Cheddar Cheese Sauce
- Dill Pickles
- Honey Mustard Sauce
- Ketchup
- Lettuce
- Mustard
- Mayonnaise
- Natural Asiago Cheese
- Cheddar & Pepper Jack Cheese Blend
- Red Onion
- Ranch Sauce
- Sweet and Sour
- Tomato
- Tartar Sauce
Beverages
- Coffee
- Cold Brew
- Coffee Creamer
- Iced Tea
- Hot Tea
- Sweet Tea
- Coca-Cola
- Diet Coke
- Sprite
- Barq’s Root Beer
- Coke ZeroTM
- Dr Pepper
- Fanta Orange
- Hi-C Flashin’ Fruit Punch
- Minute Maid Light Lemonade
- Pibb Xtra
- TruMoo Lowfat White Milk
- TruMoo Lowfat Chocolate Milk
- Nestlé Pure Life Bottled Water
- Juicy Juice Apple Juice
- Nestea Unsweetened Iced Tea
- Nestea Sweetened Iced Tea
If this Wendy’s gluten free menu was helpful or inaccurate, please let us know by leaving a comment below. Thank you!
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No, Wendy’s fries are not gluten free. Although the fry itself do not contain any gluten ingredients, they are cooked in a shared fryer with the same items that contain wheat.
Yes, both the vanilla and chocolate Frosty are gluten free.
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Ginger
I am a Wendy’s GF junkie! The fries here in Iowa Wendy’s are gluten free and all cooked in dedicated fryers! I’ve also visit Wendy’s in WI and OH that had GF fries! I don’t see it listed here???
emaegf
Not all Wendy’s restaurants have dedicated fryers. Ihave close to me and neither has dedicated fryers so their fries are not gluten free.
Michelle
They don’t have dedicated fryer in Ma.,CT.,Ny., NJ.,Md.,NC. Or VA
Colette
Pending of the way they frie there nugget and the chicken strips. And when they clean there oil from from the fryer sometime they are what we call contaminated by gluten. It happen à my Wendy’s home . It is only gluten friendly
Tricia
I was glutened at Wendy’s. I told them not to put it on a bun and told them why. It came out on a bun. This was in Columbus, NE.
Bonnie
My son can eat at one location of Wendy’s but at another location in our city, he gets “glutenized” – he’s a teenager and HATES when I say it that way. I am a visual person and I always picture eating out, with celiac, like playing the video game asteroids (wow, does that date me or what?!?!?!) with that nasty gluten flinging everywhere and if it hits, you are GLUTENIZED!
I spoke to a manger at “the good Wendy’s” that told me their fries are technically gluten free and are fried in a dedicated fryer ….BUT… he said the oil from both fryers go to the same area to be filtered. I would have had no clue, and would not have even thought to ask about oil being filtered together. Too much of a risk for my son, so he stays away from the fries at Wendy’s.
***Adam, thank you for your gf menu info!!!
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Karin Stewart
since you go to the trouble to supply a gluten free menu, why don’t you carry gluten free buns.
emaegf
Karin that’s a question you need to ask Wendy’s Corporate Office. This site is not their site.
It’s put together by an individual who gets his information from the companies and others then puts it together into a easy guide for us his readers to use when we decide to go eat at one of the listed restaurants. Here’s their contact page http://talktowendys.com/Survey/Index/8af6ac1a-e22b-49ea-a087-a10b00d9a943?languageId=2&source=1
My local Wendy’s stores will wrap a gluten free burger in lettuce leaves.
Nunyofrignbiznes
Yeh because even though they make gf buns everywhere now its perfectly fine to force us with celiac to eat lettuce on a burger???????? I AM NOT A DAMN RABBIT!!!!!!
Sickofwhiners
The cost is too great for the demand in a lot of places. Keeping a higher cost item just in case isn’t practical sometimes.
Michele
Some Wendy’s salads contain blue cheese…. is blue cheese gluten free or not? I have heard mixed reviews.
emaegf
Depends on the brand. You’ll have check on the brands they use at your local restaurant, but you can also ask them to leave it off your salad.
Adam Bryan
Just to be on the safe side, I would avoid blue cheese, Michelle. Other fast food restaurant salads that have blue cheese crumbles, such as Chick Fil A’s, is not gluten free, so just to be safe, I wouldn’t risk it. I’ll check with Wendys to get clarification. And yes, I also agree with Em
ash
Blue cheese has a protien value very similar to wheat protien. So its not a gluten, but celiac stomachs percieve it to be so our intestinal system cant digest it properly which is why we end up with symptons of being glutened.
Lynne L
If I’m out somewhere and need to eat (low blood sugar), I head for the nearest Wendy’s and have their chili with a baked potato or the Baja salad. I’ve never had a reaction yet & I’m extremely sensitive to any gluten. Hope this is helpful.
Stephanie P
I got really sick after eating their chili with cheese on top a few months ago. It was the only time I had a problem (and the only time I had cheese). It was also the only thing that I had that it could have been. Because of this, I truly believe that their shredded cheese is not gluten free. Otherwise, Wendy’s is one of the easiest fast food restaurants locally for me to eat without fear.
Rhona Ross Shock Crouthamel
Maybe you are dairy sensitive, as well. I am both gluten and dairy free – which makes eating out a real challenge! Might be worth looking into. I never suspected I was dairy intolerant until my doc put me on an elimination diet.
Christina M Urban-Mailly
Shredded cheese i believe is not gluten free unless you shred it yourself. They toss it with flour to make it not stick.
Crystal
Shredded cheese is gf it is not coated with flour to make it not stick. It’s a ” dairy powder” for lack of a better term. I live 10 miles from Sargento Cheese in WI. If you were glutened or made sick it was the chili it self or you have a lactose issue.
susan
Glutenized by plain hamburger patties at my local Wendys…(came without bun); thought cross contamination from cooks’ utensils or from spices added to beef patties? Happened twice……
Lynda
Does their chili contain gluten?
BarbS
Sometimes. See my more detailed reply above.
Jonathan
Dr pepper is not gluten free
Eliska Ringler
Yes, it is.
Kitty Junkin
Has anyone had ANY problems with the Chili? I almost always have problems with chili everywhere, due to the fact that they often add some form of gluten as a thickener. I just stopped eating it all together. So I am having a really hard time wrapping my head around the fact that Wendy’s (my favorite fast food chili) is really GF! Any sensitivities?
BarbS
Yes. Apparently some franchisees will frugally put the hamburger that has been sitting too long on a bun to be sold into the chili…increasing the meat in the chili and saving food (would have made sense to me before I was diagnosed with celiac!)..I had no problems several times with a small order of chili and a baked potato. However, last April, I had the same order in the same restaurant and threw up for 18 hours and was so weak for the next 7 days my husband had to do all my chores.
isotope_dope
had the chili(onions only) yesterday-this morning hands all broke out & itching like crazy- I wont be eating it anymore
Paul Counelis
I get it quite often and have never had an issue with it!
M. Fitz
The pecans that come with the Apple Pecan Salad are now gluten-free at my local Wendy’s! The package is labeled Gluten Free and the ingredient list backs it up.
steven
The pecans for the apple pecan salad are now GF! My favorite salad at Wendy’s.
Jackie Hannahs
To Tricia……you will always have employees in fast food restaurants who don’t understand what a gluten allergy is regardless of how well you explain it. I can’t begin to tell you how many times I’ve asked for a burger patty ALONE and gotten it with a bun, pickles, etc. You just hand it back and tell them to start over!!!
Pippy
NO FAST FOOD RESTAURANT IS SAFE TO EAT AT FOR A PERSON WHO HAS CELIAC DISEASE. THESE PLACES ARE NOT GLUTEN FREE, THEY ARE ARE A MONEY MAKING JOKE ON THE BACKS OF SICK PEOPLE. SHAME ON ALL THE RESTAURANTS THAT CLAIM TO BE GLUTEN FREE. CROSS CONTAMINATION KILLS. IT IS NOT FUNNY.
Cheryl
The Frostys are not gluten free because they are malted ice cream with maltose grin in them and this has gluten in it
Georgia Blake
does anyone know if the seasoned potatoes is gluten free? I’m complete new to this life style because its slowly gotten more sensitive as I got older, and started eating gluten free less than a week ago, though not diagnosed, I already feel better.
Donna
Unless I see the packages and ingredients I do not trust this list. Most sauces alone are filled with gluten. It’s used as a thickening agent. Same for shredded cheese; it’s used as an anti caking agent.
No way is this accurate. Reason 444 to do your own research and trust nothing. Experience and health issues has taught me this.