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Bouillon cubes: allergens and what’s inside
Of 551 packs of bouillon cubes whose ingredients Open Food Facts reads in full, 61% list celery and 25% list soy. Another 41% carry a “may contain” line for milk. Most list salt, onion and sugar.
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Not for you
for a celery allergy profile, on 61% of these packs
Which allergens are in bouillon cubes?
Of 551 packs of bouillon cubes whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 61% list celery, 25% list soy, 22% list gluten and 13% list milk. Another 41% carry a “may contain” line for milk, 37% for egg and 30% for gluten. Recipes differ from pack to pack, so the label in your hand is the one that counts.
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 celery guide · Read the soy guide · Read the gluten guide
What are bouillon cubes usually made of?
The ingredients most packs of bouillon cubes list, with the share of packs that list each: salt (96%), onion (82%), sugar (75%) and parsley (69%).
Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 470 · Spain 107 · Germany 94 · United Kingdom 65.
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 bouillon cubes.
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 bouillon cubes?
In the Open Food Facts categories, bouillon cubes are a kind of dehydrated broth.
What else are bouillon cubes called?
- French
- Bouillons cubes, bouillons en cube
- German
- Brühwürfel
- Spanish
- Caldos en cubitos, Cubos de caldo
- Italian
- Dadi da brodo
- Dutch
- Bouillonblokjes
- Polish
- Kostki bulionowe, Kostki rosołowe
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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.
- Open Food Facts: product database, 4,535,553 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL
- Open Food Facts: categories and ingredients taxonomies (names, kinds, allergens), ODbL
- Open Food Facts: Bouillon cubes
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