Cinnabon: What’s Vegetarian Editorial Review

Every food item Cinnabon bakes is vegetarian, since none of it contains meat, fish, or poultry. The catch is vegan: the dough and frosting lean hard on dairy and eggs. Cinnabon bakes its rolls fresh in the store using a cinnamon variety called Makara, and that same short list of items repeats at nearly every location, including the smaller Cinnabon Express kiosks in airports and malls.

What to order at Cinnabon

Order anything off the bakery case and you’re eating vegetarian, whether that’s the Classic Roll, the MiniBon, Caramel PecanBon, BonBites, CinnaSweeties, or churros. If you want a vegan option, brewed black coffee and the Frozen & Iced Lemonade are the two confirmed picks, since both skip dairy entirely. Cookies are marked as needing a check, since the recipe isn’t confirmed vegetarian at every location. The whole menu is short enough that you can learn it once and use it at any location.

What to watch out for

Dairy and eggs are baked into every roll and whipped into every frosting, so none of the cinnamon rolls, BonBites, or churros are vegan. The Chillatta and MochaLatta both run on a milk base, and Hot Cocoa is milk too. The Classic Roll’s ingredient list includes L-cysteine and mono- and diglycerides, dough conditioners that can come from plants or animals, and Cinnabon doesn’t publish the source, so strict vegetarians may want to ask at the counter.