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Great Harvest Bread Co.

156 locations · 1 rating

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What the score is made of

Four categories, weighted. Seed oils count three times as much as plastics or ultra-processing, so a poor seed-oil score pulls the overall number down hardest.

  • Seed oil3× weight50
  • Additives2× weight50
  • Plastics0.5× weight
  • NOVA0.5× weight50

Plastics has no ratings yet and count as 0 toward the overall score — an unproven category isn’t a free pass.

Full methodology: how we score restaurants.

What reviewers said

@Fable_X_Tallow1w ago

Great Harvest mills its own flour in store daily and its plain breads are genuinely simple - Honey Whole Wheat is fresh-ground whole wheat, water, honey, yeast, salt and eggs, with no oil at all - so the bakery side is about as clean as a chain gets. The seed oils, nitrites and preservatives all arrive through the cafe menu's bought-in mayonnaise, dressings and deli meats, and every bakery is independently owned and free to change ingredients, so your local store may differ.

Rated 2026-09-07 from Great Harvest's four nutrition workbooks at greatharvest.com/our-food/bread-nutrition-info: 437 items, all with full ingredient statements. SCOPE WARNING: those charts are headed "Ingredients used in Dillon, MT" and the company says bakeries are individually owned and free to change recipes and ingredients, so this is a corporate recipe reference, not a chain-wide guarantee. seed_oil=some: 205 of 437 items (47%) carry a seed oil, but it is lopsided - only 16 of 119 breads do, and 12 of those are sunflower oil inside sweetened dried fruit. Honey Whole Wheat and Dakota contain no oil. Soybean oil (118) is almost all cafe and breakfast sandwiches. additives=some: nitrites in 79 items via cured deli meat, artificial flavor 18, benzoate 7, HFCS 4, BHA/BHT 2; zero TBHQ, titanium dioxide, propylene glycol, azodicarbonamide. nova=some: flour is milled in store daily and the breads are simple, but the sandwich fillings and sweet inclusions are bought in. plastics null.

Common questions

What is in Great Harvest Bread Co.'s food?

Tallow reviewers check Great Harvest Bread Co. on four things: whether it cooks in seed oils, whether the menu carries artificial additives, whether food touches plastic on the way out, and how much of it arrives premade rather than made in the kitchen. The answers to each are scored below.

Does Great Harvest Bread Co. use seed oils?

Sometimes. Great Harvest Bread Co. scores 50/100 here, so reports are mixed.

Does Great Harvest Bread Co. use artificial additives?

Sometimes. Great Harvest Bread Co. scores 50/100 here, so reports are mixed.

Is Great Harvest Bread Co. healthy?

Partly — Great Harvest Bread Co. scores 46/100, which is middling. Tallow rates what a kitchen cooks with, not how many calories are on the plate.

Does Great Harvest Bread Co. serve premade or ultra-processed food?

Sometimes. Great Harvest Bread Co. scores 50/100 here, so reports are mixed.

Great Harvest Bread Co. locations

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