Is Chipotle Mexican Grill Chipotle-Honey Vinaigrette low FODMAP?

No — honey does the heavy lifting in this dressing, and honey is a concentrated source of excess fructose. Chipotle has published the vinaigrette's short, pantry-style ingredient list: rice bran oil, red wine vinegar, honey, salt, water, chipotle chile, cumin, garlic, oregano, and black pepper. That clean label reads wholesome, but for a low FODMAP approach the third ingredient is the problem: honey delivers fructose well beyond its glucose, and the low FODMAP portion for honey is tiny — roughly a teaspoon. A restaurant side cup of this dressing holds several tablespoons, so the honey dose adds up fast, and garlic layers fructans on top of it. The rest of the list is genuinely benign: red wine vinegar, rice bran oil, and the chile and spices carry no meaningful FODMAP load, though chile heat is its own separate personal-tolerance question. There is no easy serving trick here, because the trigger is a headline ingredient rather than a trace one. If you love this exact flavor profile, a homemade version built on pure maple syrup and garlic-infused oil gets remarkably close, since maple syrup swaps in with a balanced glucose-fructose profile.

📏 There is no comfortable serving: the standard side cup holds several tablespoons of dressing, and even a light drizzle delivers more honey than the roughly one-teaspoon low FODMAP portion.