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Bakery products: allergens and what’s inside

Of 532 packs of bakery products whose ingredients Open Food Facts reads in full, 87% list gluten and 21% list milk. Another 31% carry a “may contain” line for milk. Most list salt, wheat flour and water.

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for a gluten-free profile, on 87% of these packs

Which allergens are in bakery products?

Of 532 packs of bakery products whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 87% list gluten, 21% list milk, 18% list egg and 17% list tree nuts. Another 31% carry a “may contain” line for milk, 20% for soy and 14% for sesame. Recipes differ from pack to pack, so the label in your hand is the one that counts.

Coeliac or gluten-freeNot for you87% list gluten; 3% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Milk allergyHeads up21% list milk; 31% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Egg allergyHeads up18% list egg; 11% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Tree nut allergyHeads up17% list tree nuts; 9% more carry a “may contain” line for them.
Soy allergyHeads up12% list soy; 20% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Sesame allergyHeads up5% list sesame; 14% more carry a “may contain” line for it.

Not for you when most of these packs list the allergen, Heads up when fewer do or only a “may contain” line names it. In the app, a profile gets Not for you on a pack that lists the allergen and Heads up on one whose “may contain” line names it: it reads the pack in your hand, not these counts.

Read the gluten guide · Read the milk guide

What are bakery products usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of bakery products list, with the share of packs that list each: salt (85%), wheat flour (82%), water (72%) and sugar (42%).

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 417 · Germany 386 · Spain 276 · Italy 202.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows what these packs list, not every recipe for bakery products.

Calories and nutrients

Not shown here. Open Food Facts records calories and nutrients per 100 g or per 100 ml without saying which, so a figure for all these packs together could mislead. The pack you buy prints its own, and that is the figure to log.

What kind of food are bakery products?

In the Open Food Facts categories, bakery products are one of the cereals and potatoes.

Kinds of bakery productsPizza doughGerman bakery products

What else are bakery products called?

French
Produits de boulangerie
German
Backwaren
Spanish
Productos de panadería
Italian
Prodotti da forno
Dutch
Bakkerijproducten
Portuguese
Produtos de padaria

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Sources

Every share is counted over the packs whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full. A pack lists an allergen when Open Food Facts’ allergen field names it, or when one of its ingredients stands for it by the same two-of-three checks as the ingredient dictionary (tahini is sesame, a cheese is milk). A “may contain” line counts only for an allergen the pack does not list.

  1. Open Food Facts: product database, 4,535,553 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL
  2. Open Food Facts: categories and ingredients taxonomies (names, kinds, allergens), ODbL
  3. Open Food Facts: Bakery products

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