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Bay laurel: allergens and what’s inside

Of 57 packs of bay laurel whose ingredients Open Food Facts reads in full, fewer than 1 in 100 list any of the main allergens. Another 11% carry a “may contain” line for celery. Most list bay leaf.

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for a celery allergy profile, on 11% of these packs

Which allergens are in bay laurel?

Of 57 packs of bay laurel whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, fewer than 1 in 100 list any of the main allergens. 11% carry a “may contain” line for celery, 11% for mustard and 9% for gluten. Recipes differ from pack to pack, so the label in your hand is the one that counts.

Celery allergyHeads up11% carry a “may contain” line for celery.
Mustard allergyHeads up11% carry a “may contain” line for mustard.
Coeliac or gluten-freeHeads up9% carry a “may contain” line for gluten.
Sesame allergyHeads up9% carry a “may contain” line for sesame.
Egg allergyHeads up5% carry a “may contain” line for egg.
Milk allergyHeads up5% carry a “may contain” line for milk.

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.

What is bay laurel usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of bay laurel list, with the share of packs that list each: bay leaf (98%) and thyme (11%).

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 78 · Germany 14 · Spain 14 · Belgium 8.

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 bay laurel.

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 bay laurel?

In the Open Food Facts categories, bay laurel is one of the aromatic plants.

What else is bay laurel called?

In EnglishSweet bayBay treeBay leaves
French
Laurier, Laurier sauce
German
Lorbeer
Spanish
Laurel
Dutch
Laurier
Polish
Liście laurowe, Liść laurowy

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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: Bay laurel

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