Olive Garden Allergen Menu

Check which of the 12 most common allergens are in every Olive Garden dish, straight from the official 2026 allergen guide. Filter by allergen to see what you can order safely.

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Updated 08 September 2026

Olive Garden Allergen Menu

Y = contains the allergen (includes cooking sauces and condiments)

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Item	Fried in soy oil	Grilled	Dairy	Eggs	Fish	Crustacean	Mollusk	Tree nuts	Wheat	Gluten	Soy	Sulfites
Calamari Appetizers	●		Y	Y			Y		Y	Y	Y
Fried Mozzarella Appetizers	●		Y						Y	Y	Y
Lasagna Fritta Appetizers	●		Y	Y					Y	Y	Y
Meatballs Parmigiana Appetizers			Y	Y					Y	Y	Y
Shrimp Fritto Misto Appetizers	●		Y	Y		Y			Y	Y	Y	Y
Spinach-Artichoke Dip with flatbread crisps Appetizers	●		Y						Y	Y
Stuffed Ziti Fritta Appetizers	●		Y	Y					Y	Y	Y
Toasted Ravioli Appetizers	●		Y	Y					Y	Y	Y
Breadstick with garlic topping Soups, Salad & Breadsticks									Y	Y	Y
Salad with Signature Italian Dressing Soups, Salad & Breadsticks			Y	Y					Y	Y		Y
Chicken & Gnocchi Soup Soups, Salad & Breadsticks			Y	Y					Y	Y		Y
Minestrone Soup Soups, Salad & Breadsticks									Y	Y	Y	Y
Pasta Fagioli Soup Soups, Salad & Breadsticks									Y	Y	Y
Stellini Soup (Regional) Soups, Salad & Breadsticks			Y	Y					Y	Y	Y
Zuppa Toscana Soup Soups, Salad & Breadsticks			Y
Angel Hair Create Your Own Pasta									Y	Y
Bucatini Create Your Own Pasta									Y	Y
Fettuccine Create Your Own Pasta									Y	Y
Gluten-Free Rotini Create Your Own Pasta				Y
Rigatoni Create Your Own Pasta									Y	Y
Small Shells Create Your Own Pasta									Y	Y
Spaghetti Create Your Own Pasta									Y	Y
Spicy Alfredo Sauce Create Your Own Pasta
Alfredo Sauce Create Your Own Pasta			Y						Y	Y
Creamy Mushroom Sauce Create Your Own Pasta			Y						Y	Y	Y	Y
Five Cheese Marinara Sauce Create Your Own Pasta			Y						Y	Y	Y
Marinara Create Your Own Pasta											Y
Meat Sauce Create Your Own Pasta											Y
Tomato Sauce Create Your Own Pasta
Crispy Shrimp Fritta Create Your Own Pasta	●		Y			Y			Y	Y		Y
Crispy Chicken Fritta Create Your Own Pasta	●		Y						Y	Y
Grilled Chicken Create Your Own Pasta		●
Italian Sausage Create Your Own Pasta
Meatballs Create Your Own Pasta			Y	Y					Y	Y	Y
Sautéed Shrimp Create Your Own Pasta
Seasoned Broccoli Create Your Own Pasta
Italian Sausage (Served with marinara. Catering CYO Pasta Station) Create Your Own Pasta											Y
Spicy Alfredo Fettuccine Dinner Entrées			Y						Y	Y
Calabrian Steak & Shrimp Bucatini Dinner Entrées		●	Y			Y			Y	Y	Y	Y
Calabrian Steak Bucatini Dinner Entrées		●	Y						Y	Y	Y	Y
Calabrian Shrimp Bucatini Dinner Entrées		●	Y			Y			Y	Y	Y	Y
Creamy Mushroom Ravioli Dinner Entrées			Y	Y					Y	Y	Y	Y
Cheese Ravioli (No Sauce) Dinner Entrées			Y	Y					Y	Y
Cheese Ravioli with Marinara Sauce Dinner Entrées			Y	Y					Y	Y	Y
Cheese Ravioli with Meat Sauce Dinner Entrées			Y	Y					Y	Y	Y
Chicken & Shrimp Carbonara Dinner Entrées			Y			Y			Y	Y	Y	Y
Chicken Alfredo (with grilled chicken) Dinner Entrées		●	Y						Y	Y
Chicken Alfredo (with crispy chicken fritta) Dinner Entrées	●		Y						Y	Y
Chicken Parmigiana Dinner Entrées	●		Y						Y	Y	Y
Chicken Scampi Dinner Entrées			Y						Y	Y	Y	Y
Chicken Tortelloni Alfredo Dinner Entrées		●
Eggplant Parmigiana Dinner Entrées	●
Fettuccine Alfredo Dinner Entrées			Y						Y	Y
Five Cheese Ziti al Forno Dinner Entrées			Y						Y	Y	Y
Grilled Chicken Margherita Dinner Entrées		●	Y						Y	Y	Y	Y
Herb-Grilled Salmon Dinner Entrées		●	Y		Y
Lasagna Classico Dinner Entrées			Y						Y	Y	Y
Ravioli Carbonara Dinner Entrées			Y	Y					Y	Y	Y
Seafood Alfredo Dinner Entrées			Y			Y	Y		Y	Y		Y
Shrimp Alfredo Dinner Entrées			Y			Y			Y	Y		Y
Shrimp Carbonara Dinner Entrées			Y			Y			Y	Y		Y
Shrimp Scampi Dinner Entrées			Y			Y			Y	Y	Y	Y
Spaghetti with Marinara Sauce Dinner Entrées									Y	Y	Y
Spaghetti with Marinara Sauce & Meatballs Dinner Entrées			Y	Y					Y	Y	Y
Spaghetti with Marinara Sauce & Italian Sausage Dinner Entrées									Y	Y	Y
Spaghetti with Meat Sauce Dinner Entrées									Y	Y	Y
Spaghetti with Meat Sauce & Meatballs Dinner Entrées			Y	Y					Y	Y	Y
Spaghetti with Meat Sauce & Italian Sausage Dinner Entrées									Y	Y	Y
Steak Gorgonzola Alfredo Dinner Entrées		●	Y						Y	Y		Y
Stuffed Chicken Marsala Dinner Entrées		●	Y						Y	Y	Y	Y
6 oz. Sirloin Dinner Entrées		●	Y						Y	Y
Tour of Italy Dinner Entrées	●		Y						Y	Y	Y
Cheese Ravioli Kids Menu			Y	Y					Y	Y
Cheese Pizza Kids Menu			Y						Y	Y
Chicken Fingers Kids Menu	●								Y	Y
Macaroni & Cheese Kids Menu			Y						Y	Y
French Fries Sides	●
Grapes Sides
Italian Sausage (with marinara) Sides											Y
Mashed Potatoes Sides			Y
Meatballs (with marinara) Sides			Y	Y					Y	Y	Y
Parmesan Garlic Broccoli Sides			Y
Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce Sides									Y	Y
Famous House Salad without Croutons Gluten Sensitive			Y	Y								Y
Zuppa Toscana Soup Gluten Sensitive			Y
6 oz. Sirloin Gluten Sensitive		●	Y
Grilled Chicken Parmigiana with Rotini & Marinara Gluten Sensitive		●	Y	Y							Y
Herb-Grilled Salmon Gluten Sensitive		●	Y		Y
Rotini Pasta with Marinara Gluten Sensitive				Y							Y
Rotini Pasta with Meat Sauce Gluten Sensitive				Y							Y
Almond Biscotti (served on the side with specialty coffee) Desserts			Y	Y				Y	Y	Y
Black Tie Mousse Cake Desserts			Y	Y					Y	Y	Y
Chocolate Lasagna Desserts			Y	Y					Y	Y	Y
Sicilian Cheesecake with Strawberry Topping Desserts			Y	Y					Y	Y	Y
Strawberry Cream Cake Desserts			Y	Y					Y	Y
Tiramisu Desserts			Y	Y					Y	Y	Y
Warm Italian Doughnuts Desserts	●		Y						Y	Y	Y
Pumpkin Cookie Butter Cheesecake Desserts			Y	Y					Y	Y	Y
Mint candy Desserts			Y								Y

● = prepared in the shared fryer (soy oil) or on the grill. Source: Olive Garden allergen guide, US restaurants excluding Hawaii. Cross-contact cannot be ruled out; notify your server of any allergy.

Vegan Items

Breadstick with garlic topping
Minestrone Soup
Angel Hair
Bucatini
Fettuccine
Rigatoni
Small Shells
Spaghetti
Marinara
Tomato Sauce
Seasoned Broccoli
Spaghetti with Marinara Sauce
French Friesfried
Seasoned Broccoli (no parmesan)
raspberry sauce

Vegetarian Items

Gluten-Free Rotiniegg
Spicy Alfredo Saucedairy
Alfredo Saucedairy
Creamy Mushroom Saucedairy
Five Cheese Marinara Saucedairy
Spicy Alfredo Fettuccinedairy
Creamy Mushroom Ravioliegg · dairy
Cheese Ravioli with Marinara Sauceegg · dairy
Eggplant Parmigianadairy
Fettuccine Alfredodairy
Kids Cheese Pizzadairy
Kids Cheese Ravioli with Tomato Sauceegg · dairy
Kids Macaroni & Cheesedairy
Mashed Potatoesdairy
Parmesan Garlic Broccolidairy
Pumpkin Cookie Butter Cheesecakeegg · dairy
Black Tie Mousse Cakeegg · dairy
Chocolate Lasagnaegg · dairy
Sicilian Cheesecake with Strawberry Toppingegg · dairy
Strawberry Cream Cakeegg · dairy
Tiramisuegg · dairy
Warm Italian Doughnutsdairy
chocolate saucedairy

From the official vegetarian and vegan guide. Dishes not listed are not vegetarian.

Olive Garden Allergy Menu Explained

Olive Garden's allergen guide covers 99 menu items across 8 sections and flags 12 allergens: dairy, eggs, fish, crustacean shellfish, mollusks, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, gluten, soy, sesame and sulfites. It also marks dishes fried in soy oil and dishes cooked on the shared grill. The matrix above is the same data, made searchable.

Dairy at Olive Garden

Dairy is the most common allergen on the menu, present in 67 dishes. Alfredo sauce, five cheese marinara, the breadstick garlic topping and every dessert contain it. Marinara, tomato sauce, minestrone soup and the house salad without cheese are dairy-free; ask for no parmesan, which servers add at the table.

Gluten and Wheat

Wheat appears in 72 items and gluten in 72. The gluten-sensitive menu swaps rotini for regular pasta and skips breaded proteins. Pasta with and without gluten cooks in the same water, so Olive Garden uses the term gluten-sensitive rather than gluten-free. The gluten-sensitive menu page lists every option with prices.

Nuts and Peanuts

Tree nuts show up in 1 items, mostly desserts and specialty drinks, and peanuts in 0. Entrées, soups and breadsticks are nut-free by recipe, which makes Olive Garden one of the easier chains for nut allergies, though the guide does not cover facility cross-contact.

Shellfish, Fish and Soy

Shrimp dishes account for the 9 crustacean entries and calamari for the mollusk entries. Fish appears in 2 items, mainly salmon. Soy is flagged on 51 dishes, largely from the soy oil used for frying; the FDA does not consider highly refined soybean oil a major allergen, but Olive Garden lists it anyway.

How to Order Safely

Tell your server about the allergy before ordering, ask for the manager on severe allergies, and avoid fried items when cross-contact from the shared fryer is a concern. Use the filter above to hide every dish containing your allergen, then check the item page for the full nutrition facts and price.

Download the allergen guide (PDF)

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Olive Garden have a gluten-free menu?

Olive Garden offers a gluten-sensitive menu with 11 items, including gluten-free rotini, grilled chicken parmigiana and herb-grilled salmon. Kitchens are not gluten-free environments and pasta with and without gluten shares the same cooker, so the company does not call any dish gluten-free. 27 of the 99 items in the guide list no wheat or gluten.

Which Olive Garden items are dairy-free?

67 of 99 listed dishes contain dairy. Dairy-free choices include Breadstick with garlic topping, Minestrone Soup, Pasta Fagioli Soup, Angel Hair. Ask for no parmesan on salads and pasta, since it is added at the table.

Is Olive Garden nut-free?

Tree nuts appear in 1 listed items and peanuts in 0. The pasta, sauces, soups and breadsticks contain no nuts, but the guide does not cover facility-level cross-contact, so tell your server about a nut allergy before ordering.

What Olive Garden dishes contain shellfish?

Crustacean shellfish (shrimp) are in 9 items and mollusks (calamari, clams) in 2. Shrimp is cooked in the same sauté pans and fryer as other proteins; the calamari and shrimp fritta share the fryer with fried mozzarella and zeppoli.

Does Olive Garden have vegan options?

Yes. The official vegetarian and vegan guide lists 15 vegan items such as Breadstick with garlic topping, Minestrone Soup, Angel Hair, Bucatini, plus 23 vegetarian dishes that contain egg or dairy. Marinara, tomato sauce and most plain pastas are vegan; alfredo and the breadstick garlic topping are not.

How accurate is this allergen information?

It reproduces the official Olive Garden allergen guide (US restaurants, excludes Hawaii) row for row and refreshes weekly. The guide identifies which items contain each allergen based on supplier data; it does not indicate items made in a facility with the allergen. Always notify the restaurant of any allergy.

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