Cooked meat: allergens and what’s inside

Which allergens are in cooked meat?

Of 165 packs of cooked meat whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 12% list milk, 9% list gluten, 7% list mustard and 6% list soy. Another 13% carry a “may contain” line for milk, 12% for egg and 12% for celery. 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 is cooked meat usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of cooked meat list, with the share of packs that list each: salt (85%), pork (81%), pork meat (63%) and e250 sodium nitrite (55%).

• Salt85%
• Pork81%
• Pork meat63%
• E250 sodium nitrite55%
• Water55%
• Dextrose50%
• Sugar35%
• E301 sodium ascorbate33%
• Garlic33%
• Pepper28%
• Pork loin21%
• Onion19%

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 224 · United Kingdom 38 · United States 15 · Germany 8.

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 cooked meat.

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 cooked meat?

In the Open Food Facts categories, cooked meat is a kind of meat.

What else is cooked meat called?

French

Viandes cuites, Viande cuite

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: Cooked meat

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