Pulp Juice & Smoothie Bar serves smoothies, fresh-squeezed juices, açaí and blended bowls, wraps, salads and wellness shots. Almost everything starts with fruit or vegetables — which is exactly why it is easy to assume more of the menu is vegan than actually is.
Answer: only a handful of items, and this page has been corrected. Most Pulp smoothies are built on yogurt, sherbet or honey. The bigger fix is this: an earlier version of this article reproduced a table marking Pulp’s Whey Protein enhancer as vegan. Whey is a dairy protein. Pulp’s own menu page describes that enhancer as “Whey Protein Concentrate” with the note “Allergy Alert: Contains Milk” — and still carries a “Vegan” tag next to it. Do not order it.
Everything below is checked against Pulp’s own current menu and its Nutritional FAQs page, both accessed 28 July 2026. The nutrition PDF this article used to link to no longer exists.
What Pulp Does and Doesn’t Publish
Pulp lists the ingredients of every drink on its menu, and calories by size. That is genuinely useful — you can read “orange sherbet” or “yogurt” straight off the menu. What Pulp does not publish is a full ingredient breakdown for its component ingredients — the sorbets, the granola, the tortillas, the dressings — or an allergen matrix. There is no vegan filter and no per-item allergen table.
Pulp’s Nutritional FAQs page says only this: “We blend with real ingredients every day. Allergen warning: we are not allergy-friendly. All food and beverage are prepared in a shared environment which may cause exposure to known food allergens. These may include peanuts, wheat, soy, dairy and other allergens. If you let us know of an allergy, we will make sure the ingredient of concern is not directly used to make your product. Please be aware however that trace amounts of that ingredient could be present in your product.”
Read that carefully if you avoid dairy for medical reasons rather than ethical ones. Every smoothie goes through the same blenders, and most of the menu contains yogurt or sherbet.
Sherbet, Sorbet, Yogurt and Honey
Pulp gets its creamy texture from one of four things, and only one of them is plant-based.
Sherbet is not vegan. Under the FDA’s standard of identity, sherbet contains 1–2% milkfat. Pulp’s orange sherbet and raspberry sherbet appear in more drinks than any other ingredient on the menu.
Yogurt is not vegan, and Pulp’s yogurt is not specified as a plant yogurt anywhere on its menu.
Honey is not vegan, and it turns up in more places than you would expect — including as one of the free bowl toppings.
Sorbet is the one to ask for. Pulp does not publish an ingredient list for its pineapple sorbet or its blue spirulina sorbet, so we cannot show you a label. What we can show you is that Pulp itself labels the American Swirl — a smoothie built on pineapple sorbet, blue spirulina sorbet, cocowhip and soy milk — as “Vegan and Dairy Free”. That is the brand’s own statement, and it is the strongest evidence available that the sorbets are dairy-free. It is not a full ingredient list, so if you need certainty, ask in store.
Smoothies
Only a few of Pulp’s standing smoothies are made without yogurt, sherbet or honey. These are the ones whose published ingredients contain none of the three:
- Beet Bada-Boom — strawberry juice, beet, strawberries, blueberries. The cleanest option on the menu: no sorbet, no dairy, nothing to substitute out.
- Strawberry Basil w/ Chia — strawberry and guava juices, strawberries, lime squeeze, fresh basil, chia seeds.
- Spirulina Spiral — blue spirulina sorbet, pineapple juice, mangos, peaches, bananas.
- Pulp Coolada — pineapple juice, bananas, coconut, pineapple sorbet.
- Orange Ginger Elixir — freshly squeezed orange, carrot, ginger and lemon, pineapple sorbet, mangos, turmeric.
- Kale Ka-Pow! — pineapple juice, kale, mangos, strawberries, pineapple sorbet, plus greens blend.
The last four rely on sorbet, so they are only as vegan as the sorbet is — see the section above.
Everything else on the standing smoothie menu contains yogurt, sherbet or honey as listed by Pulp: Strawberry Banana, Blueberry Dream, Peach Beach, Three Berry, Strawberry Extreme, Pulp Swirl, Raspberry Harmony, Cranberry Fix and Anna Banana among the Classics; Pulp Passion, Mango Tango, Island Cruiser, Tropical Blast and Elite Eight among the Tropicals; Samma Jamma, Orange Chill and Citrus Berry among the Citrus; The Pink Dragon, Smooth Avocado and Ultimate Açaí among the Premium Blends; Green Tea Smoothie, Protein Packer, Hangover Relief, Guava Burner and Cram Session among the Supers; and Carroty Chop and Matcha Match in the Veggie n’ Greens range. Every Red Bull smoothie — Mango Bomb, Pulp Fusion and Raging Berry, regular and sugar-free — is built on sherbet.
Two of those deserve a specific flag. Smooth Avocado contains honey. Protein Packer contains yogurt and whey protein.
Pulp will customise, and most of these can be rebuilt without the dairy component — but you are then asking for a different drink, and the texture changes. Ask for pineapple sorbet in place of sherbet or yogurt rather than assuming the staff will substitute automatically.
Pulp Enhancers
Every smoothie comes with one free enhancer. There are twelve, and an earlier version of this page said all twelve were vegan. That was wrong.
Whey Protein is not vegan. Pulp’s own product page calls it “Whey Protein Concentrate” and carries the line “Allergy Alert: Contains Milk” — while also tagging it “Kosher, Halal, Vegan”. The dairy note and the vegan tag cannot both be right, and whey is by definition a milk protein. Skip it.
The plant-based protein options are Pea Protein (which Pulp describes as “dairy-free, vegan friendly”, though it is tagged Vegetarian rather than Vegan on the menu) and Soy Protein Isolate (tagged Vegan; carries an “Allergy Alert: Contains Soy”).
The nine non-protein enhancers — Energy, Fiber, Fat Burner, Smart Blend, Immunity, Hangover Relief, Stress Relief, Probiotic and Vitamin — are all tagged Vegan on Pulp’s menu, alongside Kosher, Halal and Non-GMO. Pulp publishes ingredient highlights for each rather than a full ingredient list, so those tags are the brand’s word rather than a label you can read.
Pulp also states that its enhancers are “not for use by pregnant or lactating women”, and that anyone with a medical condition should consult a physician before using them.
Juices and Wellness Shots
This is the most straightforwardly plant-based part of the menu. The Fresh Squeezed Juice is built from one base — apple, orange or carrot — plus up to two additions from kale, lemon, lime, beet, apple, celery, ginger, cucumber and orange. Nothing in that list is animal-derived.
Pulp Lemonade
Freshly juiced apple and lemon. Pulp suggests adding kale and ginger.
Wheatgrass Shot
Freshly juiced wheatgrass, nothing else listed.
Ginger Shot
Freshly juiced ginger and lemon, with an optional cayenne or turmeric topper.
Bowls
The bowls are the strongest food option here, with one important change since this page was last written: honey is now one of the free toppings, so it can end up in your bowl by default if you do not say otherwise.
Of the two Classic Bowls, The Original Açaí Bowl — organic açaí, fresh banana and crunchy granola — lists no dairy or honey. Pulp notes the granola mix contains raisins and sliced almonds, but publishes no further ingredient breakdown for it, so the granola itself is unconfirmed. The PB&G Bowl contains honey and vanilla yogurt and is not vegan.
Among the Blended Bowls:
- Dragonfruit Bowl — dragonfruit, mangos, raspberries, strawberry juice, almond milk. No dairy or honey listed.
- Açaí Bowl — organic açaí, blueberries, strawberries, mangos, strawberry juice, almond milk. No dairy or honey listed.
- Blue Spirulina Bowl — blue spirulina sorbet, mangos, peaches, bananas, pineapple juice, almond milk. No dairy or honey listed.
- Avocado Bowl — contains honey. Not vegan as served.
The free toppings are peanut butter, honey, banana, blueberries, crunchy granola, coconut, cacao nibs and chia seeds. Choose three, and skip the honey.
Wraps and Salads
This page used to say “nothing is vegan, stay away from the wraps”. That is no longer accurate, though the situation is still awkward.
The Veggie Wrap is cucumber, shredded carrots, tomato and romaine lettuce with a choice of cheese and dressing — so ordered without cheese, on a tomato basil, spinach or wheat tortilla, the fillings are plant-based. The Garden Salad (romaine, cucumber, shredded carrots, tomato, choice of cheese and dressing) works the same way without cheese.
What we cannot confirm: Pulp publishes no ingredient list for its tortillas or for any of its dressings. Tortillas commonly contain lard or dairy-derived emulsifiers, and several of the dressings on the wrap menu — caesar, ranch, honey mustard — are obviously not vegan. Ask which dressings are dairy-free, or take the salad plain with lemon.
Every other wrap contains chicken, turkey or tuna.
Allergen Alert
Pulp says outright that it is “not allergy friendly”, that everything is prepared in a shared environment, and that even when staff avoid an ingredient deliberately, “trace amounts of that ingredient could be present in your product”. Given that yogurt and sherbet go through the same blenders as everything else, that warning is worth taking at face value.
Conclusion
Pulp Juice & Smoothie Bar can work for a vegan, but the safe list is short: Beet Bada-Boom or Strawberry Basil among the standing smoothies, a fresh-squeezed juice, a wellness shot, the Original Açaí Bowl or one of the almond-milk blended bowls without honey, and a Veggie Wrap or Garden Salad without cheese.
The two things to remember are that sherbet is a dairy product despite the name, and that Pulp’s own “Vegan” tag on the Whey Protein enhancer is wrong. As with vegan options at any customisable chain, say what you want left out, ask what the sorbets and dressings contain, and treat the tags on the menu as a starting point rather than a guarantee.
