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Cooking sauce: allergens and what’s inside

Of 186 packs of cooking sauce whose ingredients Open Food Facts reads in full, 26% list milk and 21% list gluten. Another 24% carry a “may contain” line for celery. Most list salt, onion-family vegetable and sugar.

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Not for you

for a milk allergy profile, on 26% of these packs

Which allergens are in cooking sauce?

Of 186 packs of cooking sauce whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 26% list milk, 21% list gluten, 12% list egg and 10% list tree nuts. Another 24% carry a “may contain” line for celery, 21% for milk and 19% for mustard. Recipes differ from pack to pack, so the label in your hand is the one that counts.

Milk allergyHeads up26% list milk; 21% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Coeliac or gluten-freeHeads up21% list gluten; 13% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Egg allergyHeads up12% list egg; 16% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Tree nut allergyHeads up10% list tree nuts; 6% more carry a “may contain” line for them.
Sulphite sensitivityHeads up9% list sulphites; 2% more carry a “may contain” line for them.
Celery allergyHeads up8% list celery; 24% 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.

Read the milk guide · Read the gluten guide

What is cooking sauce usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of cooking sauce list, with the share of packs that list each: salt (92%), onion-family vegetable (78%), sugar (72%) and onion (61%).

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 190 · United Kingdom 52 · Germany 13 · United States 13.

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 cooking sauce.

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 cooking sauce?

In the Open Food Facts categories, cooking sauce is a kind of sauce.

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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: Cooking sauce

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