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Béarnaise sauce: allergens and what’s inside

Of 58 packs of béarnaise sauce whose ingredients Open Food Facts reads in full, 98% list egg and 28% list milk. Another 31% carry a “may contain” line for mustard. Most list salt, tarragon and egg yolk.

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for an egg allergy profile, on 98% of these packs

Which allergens are in béarnaise sauce?

Of 58 packs of béarnaise sauce whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 98% list egg, 28% list milk, 12% list gluten and 10% list mustard. Another 31% carry a “may contain” line for mustard, 14% for gluten and 12% for celery. Recipes differ from pack to pack, so the label in your hand is the one that counts.

Egg allergyNot for you98% list egg; 2% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Milk allergyHeads up28% list milk; 9% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Coeliac or gluten-freeHeads up12% list gluten; 14% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Mustard allergyHeads up10% list mustard; 31% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Sulphite sensitivityHeads up9% list sulphites; 3% more carry a “may contain” line for them.
Soy allergyHeads up7% list soy; 9% 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 eggs guide · Read the milk guide

What is béarnaise sauce usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of béarnaise sauce list, with the share of packs that list each: salt (100%), tarragon (98%), egg yolk (97%) and vinegar (91%).

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 174 · Belgium 41 · Sweden 39 · Germany 15.

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 béarnaise 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 béarnaise sauce?

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

What else is béarnaise sauce called?

French
Sauces béarnaises, Sauce béarnaise
German
Sauce Béarnaise, Béarner Sauce
Spanish
Salsa bearnesa
Italian
Salsa bernese
Dutch
Béarnaise saus
Polish
Sosy bearneńskie, Sos bearneński

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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: Béarnaise sauce

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