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Sbarro

817 locations · 1 rating

21/100Avoid
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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× 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

Sbarro publishes a full ingredient statement for 102 of its 104 menu items, and soybean oil is in 87 of them including the plain cheese pizza, so seed oils are unavoidable here. Additives are more selective than that: 38 items carry none at all, and almost all of the dyes, preservatives and emulsifiers are concentrated in the cured meats, the bottled dressings, the rice sides and the dessert case.

Rated 2026-09-07 from Sbarro's own USA Nutritional Guide PDF, linked from sbarro.com/us-nutritional-information/, with full ingredient statements for 102 of 104 real menu items. seed_oil=all: soybean oil in 87 of 102 items (85%) and canola in 64, including the plain 17in NY Cheese Pizza; every "VEGETABLE OIL" here is parenthetically defined as a soybean or canola blend. No sunflower, safflower, corn, cottonseed, grapeseed or rice bran anywhere. swap=unsure, nothing published. additives=some: 64 of 102 items (63%) carry at least one of dye, BHA, BHT, nitrite, benzoate, sorbate, artificial flavor, EDTA, polysorbate, propylene glycol, HFCS, mono-/diglycerides, caramel color or MSG; 38 carry none, and the flagship cheese pizza is one of them. Excluding the pepperoni cure it is 49 of 102. nova=some: the dough and pizza sauce read as in-store work, while the cured meats, butter blend, bottled dressings and the dessert case are supplied ultra-processed. plastics null, not in plasticlist.org.

Common questions

What is in Sbarro's food?

Tallow reviewers check Sbarro 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 Sbarro use seed oils?

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

Does Sbarro use artificial additives?

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

Is Sbarro healthy?

Not really — Sbarro scores 21/100, a poor score. Tallow rates what a kitchen cooks with, not how many calories are on the plate.

Does Sbarro serve premade or ultra-processed food?

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

Sbarro locations

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  • I57&I70 State Rt 32&33, Effingham
  • 1400 W Main St, Carbondale
  • 1255 Lincoln Dr (SIU Student Center), Carbondale
  • 3000 W Deyoung St, Marion
  • Mall St Matthews, Matthews
  • 301 Cox Creek Pkwy Ste 1218, Florence
  • Mississippi State
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  • 1701 McFarland Blvd E, Tuscaloosa
  • Century Plz, Irondale
  • 7580 Crestwood Blvd Ste 142B, Irondale
  • 6200 Grand River Blvd E, Leeds
  • 2000 Riverchase Galleria, Hoover
  • 700 Quintard Dr, Oxford
  • 2841 Montgomery Mall # B32, Montgomery
  • 1276 Eastdale Mall, Montgomery
  • 3131 Manchester Expy, Columbus
  • 1627 Opelika Rd, Auburn
  • 5100 N 9th Ave, Pensacola
  • 525 Grand Blvd, Miramar Beach
  • 3715 Airport Rd, Panama City
  • 2150 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Panama City
  • 23679 Canal Rd, Orange Beach
  • 7074 AL-59, Gulf Shores
  • 8011 US Highway 19, Port Richey
  • 17519 Bruce B Downs Blvd, Tampa
  • 2382 Grand Cypress Dr, Lutz
  • 2223 N West Shore Blvd, Tampa
  • 12302 University Mall Ct, Tampa
  • 4202 E Fowler Ave, Tampa
  • 517 Brandon Town Center Mall # M, Brandon
  • 1741 Palm Beach Lakes Blvd, West Palm Beach
  • 200 E Broward Blvd, Fort Lauderdale
  • Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Int Airport, Fort Lauderdale

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