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Beef tongues: allergens and what’s inside

Of 76 packs of beef tongues whose ingredients Open Food Facts reads in full, 74% list gluten and 57% list mustard. Another 38% carry a “may contain” line for egg. Most list salt, water and beef tongue.

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Not for you

for a gluten-free profile, on 74% of these packs

Which allergens are in beef tongues?

Of 76 packs of beef tongues whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 74% list gluten, 57% list mustard, 53% list sulphites and 49% list milk. Another 38% carry a “may contain” line for egg, 25% for celery and 22% for crustaceans. Recipes differ from pack to pack, so the label in your hand is the one that counts.

Coeliac or gluten-freeNot for you74% list gluten; 5% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Mustard allergyNot for you57% list mustard; 13% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Sulphite sensitivityNot for you53% list sulphites; 1% more carry a “may contain” line for them.
Milk allergyHeads up49% list milk; 20% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Celery allergyHeads up21% list celery; 25% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Soy allergyHeads up9% list soy; 17% 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 mustard guide · Read the sulphites guide

What are beef tongues usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of beef tongues list, with the share of packs that list each: salt (97%), water (95%), beef tongue (89%) and vinegar (79%).

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 238 · Belgium 10 · Switzerland 2 · Finland 1.

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 beef tongues.

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 beef tongues?

In the Open Food Facts categories, beef tongues are a kind of beef.

What else are beef tongues called?

In EnglishBeef tongue
French
Langues de bœuf, Langue de bœuf
German
Rinderzungen
Italian
Lingue di bue
Dutch
Rundertong

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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: Beef tongues

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