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Egg salads: allergens and what’s inside

Of 42 packs of egg salads whose ingredients Open Food Facts reads in full, 95% list egg and 90% list mustard. Another 7% carry a “may contain” line for celery. Most list salt, sugar and rapeseed oil.

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Not for you

for an egg allergy profile, on 95% of these packs

Which allergens are in egg salads?

Of 42 packs of egg salads whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 95% list egg, 90% list mustard, 21% list soy and 19% list celery. Another 7% carry a “may contain” line for celery, 7% for milk and 5% for fish. Recipes differ from pack to pack, so the label in your hand is the one that counts.

Egg allergyNot for you95% list egg.
Mustard allergyNot for you90% list mustard.
Soy allergyHeads up21% list soy; 2% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Celery allergyHeads up19% list celery; 7% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Milk allergyHeads up19% list milk; 7% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Coeliac or gluten-freeHeads up12% list gluten; 5% 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 eggs guide · Read the mustard guide · Read the soy guide

What are egg salads usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of egg salads list, with the share of packs that list each: salt (100%), sugar (98%), rapeseed oil (90%) and water (88%).

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: Germany 55 · Netherlands 13 · Belgium 12 · United States 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 egg salads.

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 egg salads?

In the Open Food Facts categories, egg salads are one of the egg preparations.

What else are egg salads called?

In EnglishEgg spreads
French
Salades d'œufs, salades d'oeufs
German
Eisalaten, Eisalat
Dutch
Eisalades, Eiersalades
Polish
Sałatki jajeczne

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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: Egg salads

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