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Butternut squashes: allergens and what’s inside

Of 60 packs of butternut squashes whose ingredients Open Food Facts reads in full, 5% list milk and 5% list tree nuts. Most list butternut squash.

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for a milk allergy profile, on 5% of these packs

Which allergens are in butternut squashes?

Of 60 packs of butternut squashes whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 5% list milk, 5% list tree nuts, 3% list gluten and 2% list celery. Another 2% carry a “may contain” line for egg, 2% for gluten and 2% for mustard. Recipes differ from pack to pack, so the label in your hand is the one that counts.

Milk allergyHeads up5% list milk.
Tree nut allergyHeads up5% list tree nuts.
Coeliac or gluten-freeHeads up3% list gluten; 2% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Celery allergyHeads up2% list celery.
Soy allergyHeads up2% list soy; 2% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Sulphite sensitivityHeads up2% list sulphites.

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 butternut squashes usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of butternut squashes list, with the share of packs that list each: butternut squash (93%), onion-family vegetable (12%), salt (12%) and water (12%).

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 75 · United States 27 · United Kingdom 5 · Spain 4.

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 butternut squashes.

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 butternut squashes?

In the Open Food Facts categories, butternut squashes are one of the pumpkins.

What else are butternut squashes called?

In EnglishButternut squashButternut pumpkinsbutternut squashbutternut pulp
French
Courges Butternut, Butternut
Spanish
Calabazas Butternut
Dutch
Muskaatpompoen

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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: Butternut squashes

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