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TCBY

901 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× weight0
  • Plastics0.5× weight
  • NOVA0.5× weight0

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

TCBY's plain frozen yogurt has no oil in it at all, and only 7 of the 45 items with published statements carry a seed oil, all of it coming from cookie pieces, candy or nut coatings. The weak spot is additives rather than oil, with propylene glycol monoesters in 30 of 45 items and synthetic dyes across nine flavours.

TCBY publishes a real ingredient statement on each menu-item page, and the plain frozen yogurt is genuinely clean on oil: Golden Vanilla, the flagship, is cultured milk, sugar, skim milk, corn syrup, polydextrose, a stabiliser blend and vanilla, with no oil at all. Only 7 of the 45 items with statements carry a seed oil, and every one of them gets it from a baked or candy inclusion or a nut coating rather than the yogurt. There is no fryer. The additive side is the opposite story: propylene glycol monoesters are in 30 of 45 as the standard stabiliser, guar gum in 40, carrageenan in 32, and synthetic dyes across 9 flavours. Two ingredients that should not still be there are: partially hydrogenated oil on three items and brominated vegetable oil in the Pink Lemonade sorbet.

Common questions

What is in TCBY's food?

Tallow reviewers check TCBY 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 TCBY use seed oils?

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

Does TCBY use artificial additives?

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

Is TCBY healthy?

Not really — TCBY scores 25/100, a poor score. Tallow rates what a kitchen cooks with, not how many calories are on the plate.

Does TCBY serve premade or ultra-processed food?

Yes. TCBY scores 0/100 here — reviewers report mostly premade or ultra-processed food.

TCBY locations

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  • 916 E Main St Ste 111, Greenwood
  • 8011 Madison Ave, Indianapolis
  • 126 E Northfield Dr, Brownsburg
  • 800 N Green River Rd, Evansville
  • 1121 Broadway Ave E Ste 1, Mattoon
  • 617 W Main St, Newbern
  • 838 University St, Martin
  • 202 Hospital Cir, Paris
  • 2021 N Highland Ave, Jackson
  • 215 Ana Dr, Florence
  • 4768 Knight Arnold Rd Ste 102, Memphis
  • 3445 Poplar Ave, Memphis
  • 7065 Airways Blvd, Southaven
  • 5070 Goodman Rd, Olive Branch
  • 8100 Camp Creek Rd, Olive Branch
  • Winchester, Germantown
  • 7825 Winchester Rd, Memphis
  • 6515 Poplar Ave #104, Memphis
  • 1730 S Germantown Rd Ste 113, Germantown
  • 7584 W Farmington Blvd, Germantown
  • Cordova
  • 2955 Kirby Whitten Rd, Bartlett
  • 7986 US Highway 64, Bartlett
  • 501 Bramlett Blvd, Oxford
  • 100 Russell St, Starkville
  • 421 Pinola Dr SW, Magee
  • 1037 Highway 15 N Mac's Mini Mart, Laurel
  • 1006 Central Dr, Philadelphia
  • 13620 Highway 43 N, Northport
  • 2 McFarland Blvd, Northport
  • 507 18th Ave N, Columbus
  • 507 18th St N, Columbus
  • 2304 McFarland Blvd E, Tuscaloosa
  • 1329 Walker Chapel Rd, Fultondale
  • 1240 Inverness Cors, Hoover
  • 3134 Cahaba Heights Rd # RD-5243, Vestavia
  • 400 Cahaba Park Cir, Birmingham
  • 1919 28th Ave S Ste 153, Birmingham
  • 3305 Lorna Rd, Hoover
  • 1621-1873 County Ro. 52 E, Pelham

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