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Wetzel's Pretzels

421 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

Soybean oil is baked into Wetzel's pretzel mix itself, so 26 of 30 food items contain it and only the dips escape. In its favour, the pretzels are brushed with real clarified butter rather than margarine, and the harsher additives like nitrites and BHA are confined to the pepperoni and hot dog items.

Soybean oil is in Wetzel's pretzel mix itself, so it is in 26 of the 30 food items and there is no way to order around it - the only four without it are the Caramel, Cream Cheese, Pizza Sauce and Sweet Glaze dips. The genuinely good news, and it is rare for this category, is the fat brushed on the pretzel: it is real clarified butter in 24 of 30 items, with no margarine, no vegetable oil blend and no shortening anywhere in the food. Additives are concentrated rather than menu-wide - sodium nitrite in the 9 pepperoni, dog and bacon items, BHA and BHT in the 4 pepperoni ones, MSG in the ranch. The plain pretzel's only synthetic additive is the sorbitan monostearate in its instant yeast. Wetzel's does not disclose any fryer oil, so the Mozzarella Stickz remain unknown.

Common questions

What is in Wetzel's Pretzels's food?

Tallow reviewers check Wetzel's Pretzels 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 Wetzel's Pretzels use seed oils?

Yes. Wetzel's Pretzels scores 0/100 here — reviewers report heavy seed oil use.

Does Wetzel's Pretzels use artificial additives?

Sometimes. Wetzel's Pretzels scores 50/100 here, so reports are mixed.

Is Wetzel's Pretzels healthy?

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

Does Wetzel's Pretzels serve premade or ultra-processed food?

Sometimes. Wetzel's Pretzels scores 50/100 here, so reports are mixed.

Wetzel's Pretzels locations

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