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Philly Pretzel Factory

227 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× weight
  • Additives2× weight0
  • Plastics0.5× weight
  • NOVA0.5× weight50

Seed oil and Plastics have 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

Philly Pretzel Factory's one published ingredient statement, for the pretzel dough, lists potassium bromate twice, along with bleached flour, mono and diglycerides, guar gum and L-cysteine. There is no seed oil in it, but 29 of their 32 menu items publish no ingredient data at all.

Philly Pretzel Factory publishes exactly one ingredient statement, for the pretzel dough, and it is worth reading. It lists Potassium Bromate twice - once in the bleached enriched flour and again in the dough conditioner. Bromate is a flour oxidiser banned in the EU, UK, Canada, Brazil and China, and California banned it in food effective 2027 under AB 418. It is still legal federally. The rest of the dough is bleached flour, mono and diglycerides, guar gum, L-cysteine and an unnamed enzyme blend, so it is a short list but a commercial-bakery one, not flour water salt and yeast. The good news is there is no seed oil in that published statement, so a plain pretzel with no dip looks like a seed-oil-free order. The catch is that 29 of their 32 menu items - every dip, the pretzel dogs, the sausage, the melt - have no ingredient data at all.

Common questions

What is in Philly Pretzel Factory's food?

Tallow reviewers check Philly Pretzel Factory 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 Philly Pretzel Factory use seed oils?

There aren't enough community ratings yet to answer that for Philly Pretzel Factory. If you've eaten there, rating it in the Tallow app is what fills this in.

Does Philly Pretzel Factory use artificial additives?

Yes. Philly Pretzel Factory scores 0/100 here — reviewers report a lot of artificial additives.

Is Philly Pretzel Factory healthy?

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

Does Philly Pretzel Factory serve premade or ultra-processed food?

Sometimes. Philly Pretzel Factory scores 50/100 here, so reports are mixed.

Philly Pretzel Factory locations

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