Brown lentils: allergens and what’s inside

Which allergens are in brown lentils?

Of 44 packs of brown lentils whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 7% list gluten. Another 23% carry a “may contain” line for gluten, 5% for sesame and 5% for soy. 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.

What are brown lentils usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of brown lentils list, with the share of packs that list each: lentils (98%), pardina lentils (25%), water (14%) and salt (11%).

• Lentils98%
• Pardina lentils25%
• Water14%
• Salt11%

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: Spain 56 · Germany 13 · France 11 · Italy 7.

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 brown lentils.

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 brown lentils?

In the Open Food Facts categories, brown lentils are one of the lentils.

What else are brown lentils called?

French

lentilles brunes

German

Braune Linsen

Spanish

Lentejas pardas, Lentejas pardinas

Dutch

Bruine linzen

Polish

Soczewica brązowa

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: Brown lentils

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