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Cashew butter: allergens and what’s inside

Of 96 packs of cashew butter whose ingredients Open Food Facts reads in full, 100% list tree nuts and 1% list gluten. Another 27% carry a “may contain” line for sesame. Most list cashew nuts.

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Which allergens are in cashew butter?

Of 96 packs of cashew butter whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 100% list tree nuts, 1% list gluten, 1% list milk and 1% list mustard. Another 27% carry a “may contain” line for sesame, 24% for peanuts and 11% for milk. Recipes differ from pack to pack, so the label in your hand is the one that counts.

Tree nut allergyNot for you100% list tree nuts.
Coeliac or gluten-freeHeads up1% list gluten; 2% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Milk allergyHeads up1% list milk; 11% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Mustard allergyHeads up1% list mustard.
Peanut allergyHeads up1% list peanuts; 24% more carry a “may contain” line for them.
Sesame allergyHeads up1% list sesame; 27% 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.

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What is cashew butter usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of cashew butter list, with the share of packs that list each: cashew nuts (100%), salt (15%) and sunflower oil (13%).

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 70 · United States 47 · Germany 43 · Spain 10.

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 cashew butter.

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 cashew butter?

In the Open Food Facts categories, cashew butter is a kind of nut butter.

What else is cashew butter called?

In Englishcashew nut butters
French
Purées de noix de cajou, Purée de noix de cajou
German
Cashewmus, Cashewbutter
Spanish
Mantecas de anacardos
Italian
Burri di anacardo
Dutch
Cashewpasta's
Polish
Masło z orzechów nerkowca, Pasta z orzechów nerkowca

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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: Cashew butter

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