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Barbecue sauce: allergens and what’s inside

Of 395 packs of barbecue sauce whose ingredients Open Food Facts reads in full, 31% list mustard and 23% list gluten. Most list salt, vinegar and sugar.

By Bravoora teamUpdated Sources checked 3 sourcesHow we check

Not for you

for a mustard allergy profile, on 31% of these packs

Which allergens are in barbecue sauce?

Of 395 packs of barbecue sauce whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 31% list mustard, 23% list gluten, 20% list fish and 17% list soy. Another 3% carry a “may contain” line for celery, 2% for mustard and 2% for milk. Recipes differ from pack to pack, so the label in your hand is the one that counts.

Mustard allergyHeads up31% list mustard; 2% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Coeliac or gluten-freeHeads up23% list gluten; 1% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Fish allergyHeads up20% list fish.
Soy allergyHeads up17% list soy; 2% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Sesame allergyHeads up5% list sesame; 1% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Celery allergyHeads up4% list celery; 3% 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 mustard guide · Read the gluten guide

What is barbecue sauce usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of barbecue sauce list, with the share of packs that list each: salt (97%), vinegar (92%), sugar (88%) and tomato (85%).

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: United States 947 · France 653 · Germany 326 · Spain 211.

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 barbecue sauce.

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 is barbecue sauce?

In the Open Food Facts categories, barbecue sauce is a kind of sauce.

What else is barbecue sauce called?

In EnglishBBQ sauces
French
Sauces barbecue, Sauces BBQ
German
Barbecuesaucen, BBQ-Saucen
Spanish
Salsa barbacoa
Italian
Salse barbecue
Dutch
Barbecuesauzen
Polish
Sosy barbecue, Sos barbecue

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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: Barbecue sauce

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