Is Panera Bread Vegan? Vegan Options at Panera Bread

Panera is workable for vegans who customize: its published ingredient lists show no animal ingredients in its core breads, seven bagels, the Steel Cut Oatmeal, chips, fruit, the Tropical Green Smoothie, five dressings, hummus, edamame and the farro and rice blend. Every soup and dessert contains dairy, eggs or meat and no entree is vegan as served, but the Sesame Ginger bowl and Asian Sesame salad without chicken, and the Greek and Harvest Medley salads without feta, are vegan.

Vegan as served, per Panera Bread's own sources: Plain Bagel, Everything Bagel, Sesame Bagel, Blueberry Bagel, Cinnamon Swirl & Raisin Bagel, Multigrain Bagel Flat, Chocolate Chip Bagel, Country Rustic Sourdough, and 22 more in the table above. 10 more items are vegan with a change.

Order the Sesame Ginger Chicken Market Bowl with no chicken, or the Greek Salad with no feta, and take the French Baguette, Chips, an Apple or the Fruit Cup as your free side. Drink a Tropical Green Smoothie, Agave Lemonade, an Energy Refresher, black coffee, or a latte made with Almondmilk. Before 10:30 am, get the Steel Cut Oatmeal with Strawberries & Pecans or a Plain, Everything, Sesame or Blueberry Bagel with no spread.

Most of them are. The Plain, Everything, Sesame, Blueberry, Cinnamon Swirl & Raisin and Chocolate Chip Bagels and the Multigrain Bagel Flat list no animal ingredients, but the Asiago, Asiago Everything and Cinnamon Crunch Bagels contain milk (Cinnamon Crunch also has honey). Order them without butter or cream cheese: both of Panera's cream cheese spreads are dairy, and the honey walnut one also contains honey.

None. All eight soups on the current menu (Three Cheese Lasagna, Autumn Squash, Rustic Baked Potato, Broccoli Cheddar, Homestyle Chicken Noodle, Cream of Chicken & Wild Rice, Creamy Tomato and Bistro French Onion) contain dairy, meat or chicken stock. Even the vegetarian Creamy Tomato and Autumn Squash soups are made with cream and butter, and Autumn Squash also has honey.

Greek Dressing, Balsamic Vinaigrette, Asian Sesame Vinaigrette, Sesame Ginger Dressing and White Balsamic Apple Vinaigrette list no animal ingredients. The Lemon Vinaigrette (Zesty Smoky Lemon Vinaigrette) lists honey, the Farmhouse Ranch, Creamy Garden Herb and Caesar dressings contain egg and milk (Caesar also lists anchovy), the Green Goddess Dressing contains milk, and the Chipotle Aioli contains egg.

No. Panera's ingredient list for the Tomato Basil Bread includes honey, and it is the default bread on the Mediterranean Veggie sandwich. Swap it for Country Rustic Sourdough, Artisan Ciabatta, Black Pepper Focaccia or French Baguette.

Not as served: it comes on Tomato Basil Bread (honey) with feta. Swap to a vegan bread such as Country Rustic Sourdough and leave off the feta, and the rest (hummus, cucumber, tomatoes, greens, zesty sweet peppers, red onion, salt and pepper) has no animal ingredients.

Not as served, but several work with one or two changes. The Sesame Ginger Chicken Market Bowl and the Asian Sesame Chicken Salad are vegan without the chicken, the Greek and Harvest Medley Salads are vegan without the feta, and the Fuji Apple Chicken Salad is vegan without the chicken and feta.

Yes. Panera offers Almondmilk as a milk choice on its lattes and iced coffee (online ordering does not show a milk choice for hot brewed coffee). Panera flags it for tree nuts but does not publish a full ingredient list for it.

Only the Tropical Green Smoothie, which is made from fruit purees, juices and spinach with no yogurt. The Strawberry, Strawberry Banana and Mango Smoothies are blended with whole milk Greek yogurt.

Yes. The Steel Cut Oatmeal with Strawberries & Pecans is made from steel cut oats, strawberries, oil roasted pecans and a cinnamon sugar topping, and it is available before 10:30 am. Do not add the honey, the Maple Butter Pecan Granola, the White Fudge Coffee Topping or the Hazelnut Fudge Flavored Bark Topping, which contain honey or milk.

The French Baguette, kettle-cooked Chips, Fruit Cup, Apple and Banana are all free of animal ingredients. Skip the Greek Yogurt with Berries Parfait and the Asiago Croissant Twists, which contain dairy (the parfait also has honey).

No. Every cookie, brownie, pastry, muffin, muffie and scone on Panera's current bakery menu lists milk, butter, eggs or whey. For something sweet, a Cinnamon Swirl & Raisin, Blueberry or Chocolate Chip Bagel or a Fruit Cup is the closest option.

Yes. The Italian Stuffer Roll that Panera stuffs the salad into lists no animal ingredients, so a Greek Salad Stuffer without feta or an Asian Sesame Chicken Salad Stuffer without chicken works.

Yes, by their ingredient lists. The Dragonfruit Sunset Energy Refresher is a syrup of sugar, apple juice concentrate and agave syrup with green coffee extract for caffeine and freeze-dried dragonfruit, and the Passionfruit Paradise, Island Mango and Tropical Mango Pineapple Energy Refreshers likewise list no animal ingredients.