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English muffins: allergens and what’s inside

Of 59 packs of English muffins whose ingredients Open Food Facts reads in full, 92% list gluten and 31% list soy. Another 32% carry a “may contain” line for milk. Most list water, salt and wheat flour.

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for a gluten-free profile, on 92% of these packs

Which allergens are in English muffins?

Of 59 packs of English muffins whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 92% list gluten, 31% list soy, 20% list milk and 7% list egg. Another 32% carry a “may contain” line for milk, 20% for egg and 20% for sesame. Recipes differ from pack to pack, so the label in your hand is the one that counts.

Coeliac or gluten-freeNot for you92% list gluten.
Soy allergyHeads up31% list soy; 15% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Milk allergyHeads up20% list milk; 32% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Egg allergyHeads up7% list egg; 20% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Sesame allergyHeads up2% list sesame; 20% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Mustard allergyHeads up7% carry a “may contain” line for mustard.

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 gluten guide · Read the soy guide · Read the milk guide

What are English muffins usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of English muffins list, with the share of packs that list each: water (100%), salt (98%), wheat flour (86%) and sugar (83%).

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: United States 155 · France 71 · Canada 25 · United Kingdom 20.

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 English muffins.

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 English muffins?

In the Open Food Facts categories, English muffins are a kind of special bread.

What else are English muffins called?

French
Pains Muffins, pain Muffins
German
Englische Muffins
Spanish
Muffins ingleses, Muffin inglés
Dutch
Engelse muffins

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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: English muffins

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