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Jersey Mikes

174 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× weight0
  • Additives2× weight0
  • 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_Tallow3w ago

Every bread Jersey Mike's sells contains soybean or canola oil, so every sandwich carries a seed oil, and the signature "Olive Oil Blend" is soybean and canola with olive oil listed last. 66 of 68 food items have a seed oil and 64 have an additive, mostly phosphates and cured-meat nitrites.

Jersey Mike's slices the meat to order and bakes bread in store, and the roast beef is literally "100% Beef, Salt" - but the bread undoes it. Every bread they sell lists soybean or canola oil, so every sandwich on the menu contains a seed oil. The signature "Olive Oil Blend" that goes on a Mike's Way sub is "Vegetable oil (Soybean oil and/or canola oil, olive oil)" - soybean first, olive oil last. Of the 68 food items with published ingredients, 66 contain a named seed oil and 64 carry an additive, and the only item clean of both is the chocolate chunk cookie. The cured meats carry the additive load: phosphates in 50 items, nitrite or nitrate in 26, sorbic acid in 28, BHA or BHT in 8. The fries are cottonseed and canola oil with TBHQ. The real workaround is their own menu - a "sub in a tub" bowl drops the bread, and the Juice is just a topping you can decline.

Common questions

What is in Jersey Mikes's food?

Tallow reviewers check Jersey Mikes 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 Jersey Mikes use seed oils?

Yes. Jersey Mikes scores 0/100 here — reviewers report heavy seed oil use.

Does Jersey Mikes use artificial additives?

Yes. Jersey Mikes scores 0/100 here — reviewers report a lot of artificial additives.

Is Jersey Mikes healthy?

Not really — Jersey Mikes scores 4/100, a poor score. Tallow rates what a kitchen cooks with, not how many calories are on the plate.

Does Jersey Mikes serve premade or ultra-processed food?

Sometimes. Jersey Mikes scores 50/100 here, so reports are mixed.

Jersey Mikes locations

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  • Terre Haute
  • 1090 W Poplar Ave Ste 101, Collierville
  • 1635 Pediatric Dr Suite #1, Jasper
  • 5413 US-280 W, Hoover
  • 1114 1st St N Ste 300, Alabaster
  • 1670 Newnan Rd Suite 800c, Carrollton
  • 1309 US Highway 231 S, Troy
  • 17790 Aprile Dr, Land O' Lakes
  • 2420 Gulf To Bay Blvd Ste 103, Clearwater
  • 13100 Seminole Blvd, Largo
  • 2288 N Congress Ave, Boynton Beach
  • 10658 Avalon Rd, Winter Garden
  • 5800 SE Federal Hwy, Stuart
  • Jacksonville
  • 103 Village At Glynn Pl, Brunswick
  • 90 Riverside Ave, Jacksonville
  • 12795 San Jose Blvd Ste 15, Jacksonville
  • Saint Johns County
  • Flagler Beach
  • 112 N Woodland Blvd, Deland
  • 450 Hunt Club Blvd, Apopka
  • 12376 Cortez Blvd, Brooksville
  • Ellenwood
  • North Bergen
  • Dallas
  • 313 Bear Creek Cmns, Wilkes-Barre
  • street 113 Woodbine, Hazle Township
  • 2420 Willow Street Pike, Willow Street
  • 5202 Simpson Ferry Rd Ste 112, Mechanicsburg
  • 320 S Mechanic St, Cumberland
  • 1180, Somerset
  • 2242 Oakland Ave, Indiana
  • 4480 Admiral Peary Hwy, Ebensburg
  • 1550 Military Rd, Niagara Falls
  • East Aurora
  • Rochester
  • Concord
  • 70 Gold Star Blvd, Worcester
  • 622 George Washington Hwy, Lincoln
  • 355 Russell St, Hadley

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