Cereal butter: allergens and what’s inside

Which allergens are in cereal butter?

Of 241 packs of cereal butter whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 95% list sesame and 2% list gluten. Another 26% carry a “may contain” line for tree nuts, 22% for peanuts and 4% 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.

Read the sesame guide

What is cereal butter usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of cereal butter list, with the share of packs that list each: sesame (95%) and sesame seeds (48%).

• Sesame95%
• Sesame seeds48%

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 239 · Germany 89 · United States 69 · Spain 66.

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 cereal 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 cereal butter?

In the Open Food Facts categories, cereal butter is one of the cereals and their products.

What else is cereal butter called?

French

Purées de céréales, Beurres de céréales

Spanish

Mantecas de cereales

Italian

Burri di cereali

Dutch

Pastas van granen

Portuguese

Manteigas de cereais

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: Cereal butter

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